Show Description We start with this admission, to which everyone agrees: None of us have a complete understanding of how CodePen works. At this stage, some of us think that while this is true, we could figure out the parts that we don't currently know. Hopefully that stays true for a long time, but there […]

Show Description We often get asked what it's like to work at a startup. So in this episode we thought we'd discuss what a startup means to each of us and what it's like working at CodePen at this stage (definitely "early"). We also run through some FAQ's about working at CodePen. Show Sponsor CodePen […]

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 […]