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CodePen Radio episodes

August 16, 2016 102: BuySellAds
Show Description This is Part 2 in a mini series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. We're chatting with Todd Garland from BuySellAds about being the middle-person between publishers and advertisers - and building advertising with respect for the readers. How do they compete against a multi-billion […]
33 min
August 09, 2016 101: Sparkbox
Show Notes This show kicks off what hopefully will be a 10-part mini series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. Some of them will be freemium SaaS (Software as a Service) like us, and some will be more tangentially related. Some will be bigger than us (probably […]
39 min
July 26, 2016 100: Big Ones
Show Description In this episode we talk about some of the biggest Pens of all time on CodePen. Most of them were not only just popular right on CodePen itself, but went viral and reached far beyond CodePen itself. Wanna make one of these super-popular Pens yourself? Listen and find out what "Marie's Law" is […]
43 min
July 19, 2016 099: Testing
Show Description The whole point of testing in development is so you don't write some new code that ends up affecting other code, causing it to fail or otherwise do something unexpected. You write some code, then you write a test to ensure the code you write does what you expect it to (you might […]
32 min
July 13, 2016 098: Animation
Show Description Of course there are loads and loads of animation examples on CodePen as Pens, but animation is also in use in the CodePen UI itself. How do we think about that? Why do we use it? When is it useful? How do we approach it with code? What's the weirdest @keyframes in our […]
33 min
July 05, 2016 097: Stock
Show Description All of our hires so far at CodePen have some ownership of the company in the form of stock options. This seems to be the most popular option for companies like ours, but it's not the only way. We're joined by our lawyer Alex King who explains the difference between stock options vs. […]
35 min
June 28, 2016 096: Upgrading Rails
Show Description We're joined by Joshua Wood from Upgrade Rails and Honey Badger to talk about hiring a consultant to take care of upgrading CodePen's Rails rather than doing it ourselves. Show Sponsor CodePen PRO Show Links UpgradeRails.com Honey Badger @Joshuap Joshua on Github Ruby Weekly Hint.io Pusher CodePen Radio: #95 React
33 min
June 21, 2016 095: React
Show Description I Heard React Is Good. We're talking about a new project we're working on and how we decided to jump in and use React to build it. Rachel, Alex, Tim Holman, and Chris get together to share their path of learning about React. Show Sponsor Media Temple is a web hosting company. Even […]
38 min
June 14, 2016 094: Employees
Show Description We're answering a listener question: What has changed for the 3 founders since adding employees to CodePen? How do we divide up the labor? Plus a really interesting discussion about the extra stresses involved of having employees. Show Sponsor CodePen PRO - Unlock the full power of CodePen
27 min
June 07, 2016 093: Picks 2
Show Description We're doing another episode on how we do "Picks" on CodePen — this time with the people who do most of the picking on CodePen. Rachel, Marie, Chris, and Tim H. are on the episode to talk about how and why they pick the picks they do. What do we consider? What are […]
31 min