Show Description In the previous episode, we talked about how we received a DDoS threat, and how our reaction was to beef up our infrastructure rather than pay. Turns out, as we also guessed, the threat was empty. We were well aware it could be, but also knew the beefing up would be worth it […]

Show Description We recently got a Dedicated Denial of Service threat email. An empty threat, probably (so far so good). But still, we're about the right size of a business to target and any amount of research will show that sometimes these things are real. We were absolutely under no circumstances going to give criminals […]

Show Description Pagination should be simple right? It's just some arrows you click to move between some content. We should probably be used to this by now: it's complicated. There are UI complications (e.g. making sure the buttons stay where there are, when they can). There are UX complications (e.g. can you make it fast? […]

Show Description We've been using Front the last few months at CodePen for customer support. It handles incoming email as well as Twitter in a unified, team-based inbox. In this episode we talk about what it does for us, why we like it, and how we've customized it for our needs. Show Sponsor Sign up […]

Show Description The whole gang is together! Last week we had a whole-team get together and we figured we'd record a podcast while all there. All of us have been on the receiving end of feature requests from our community. There are many spectrums on which to place these requests: Light - Heavy Technical Debt […]

Show Description We've done a number of partnerships in the history of CodePen. No two are ever the same. In this podcast we talk about a number of them. How them came together, how they worked out. Plus a few that never really materialized. Sometimes sniffing out potentially good ones is hard, particularly with the […]

Show Description We're joined by Sara Cope, who takes care of all swag for CodePen (in addition to CSS-Tricks, ShopTalk, her day job, and helping things just generally run more smoothly around here). Why do we have swag at all? How does it mostly get used? Where do we get it? How do we sell […]

Show Description In this show we talk about Amazon Spot Instances. The story story: they are Amazon servers with their own little economy. You bid on them, like you would at auction. There is no guarantee you'll get to keep the server. Get outbid, and it'll spin down. It's based on the empty server space […]

Show Description Tim Holman took the lead on building out CodePen Console, so he's on to talk about it. There are lots of good reasons why we have our own console even though the browser has (an undoubtedly more powerful) console in the DevTools. We'll talk about why that is, and how it's not just […]

Show Description This is the story of how CodePen aquired CodePen.com, after many years of not owning it. In the beginning, I think we just didn't care. This was a bit of a hobby project. We bought the domain at a time when we still mostly were thinking of this as a self-install project, and […]