CodePen Radio

Tim, Alex, and Chris are together answering a listener question about how we do capacity planning at CodePen. Thanks Frederick for the topic suggestion! Tim runs through all the details of how traffic is routed around CodePen's servers. We get into the details of auto-scaling and provisioning with our AWS plan. Also: a discussion of the newest CodePen feature!

Chris, Jake, and Dee gather to chat about refactoring the payment processing code and the creation of ownables. We talk about why we went through all this work and what it allows us to do in the future.

Chris & Marie talk about the benefits of focusing on CodePen's social media efforts. How do we engage with our audience on each platform? What did and didn't work on social media CodePen? Is there a way to measure the value of one platform over another?

Chris and Marie talk about what it's like to write and maintain documentation for a complex app. Can documentation also be marketing? What's it like keeping documentation inside WordPress?

Chris, Tim H, and Marie talk about the nuts and bolts of the CodePen's Spark — the weekly email newsletter that highlights the coolest stuff from the previous week on CodePen. We get into the challenges of getting email _just right_, from testing the design on various devices to getting it to your inbox each week.

Show Description The three founders, Tim, Alex, and Chris got together in person to work together and plan the future of CodePen. They turned on the mics to record this episode of CodePen Radio about the leadership structure of CodePen. Who decides what happens at CodePen? When do we hand off leadership to someone else? […]

Show Description It's tax time! Chris, Marie, and Dee Gill, CodePen's numbers sorceress, talk about the financial aspects of running a startup like CodePen — from payroll and taxes, to forecasting and reporting. Show Sponsor CodePen Pro Show Links Dee Gill on CodePen / Dee Gill on Twitter Marie Mosley on CodePen / Marie Mosley […]

CodePen always strives to be friendly place to take part in the world of front end development — it’s a playground! Our reward for our efforts is our big, diverse, exciting community of talented members. On this episode, Chris, Marie, and Tim H talk about setting the tone to create a welcoming environment, embracing community […]

Show Description CodePen recently switched from GitHub to self-hosted GitLab. We're happy with it! In this episode, Chris, Rachel, and Tim talk about the differences between GitHub and GitLab, why we decided to make the change, the features we like, and how the team managed the switch. Show Sponsor CodePen Pro Show Links Gitlab Github […]

Show Description We're launching a new feature called The CodePen Spark — a special newsletter devoted to highlighting awesome stuff around CodePen and the web at large. There are already lots of different ways to explore great content on CodePen, but the Spark is slightly different. Other than the fact that it's delivered through email, […]