Show Description Hiring a developer from overseas brings it's own unique challenges: immigration questions, salary questions, and onboarding. We chat with Tim Holman on what his first couple of weeks here at CodePen have been like. Show Links Tim Holman on CodePen Alex Vazquez on CodePen Tim Sabat on CodePen Chris Coyier on CodePen JSDo.it

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The redesign has been live for a few weeks now. Or at least "Phase One" of it, we might say. The reactions have been overwhelmingly positive, but of course not all of it. We talk about the launch and how it went down from a technical perspective, organizational perspective, and all the choices made along […]

Show Notes This week we talk about the "Recent Activity" feature on CodePen. It's tricker than it looks. The beginnings of the idea was based on logging actions for support reasons. For instance, if we log the fact that a user deleted a Pen, there is information about that when we get a support request […]

Show Notes We just recently welcomed Marie Mosley as our first employee ever here at CodePen. In this show we have her on to talk about her work and her relevant past work and such. Show Sponsor FullStory gives web teams a clear view into whether or not their designs are providing a great user […]

Show Notes Good News / Bad News: we're all full up on employees already. We'd love to be able to hire more of the wonderful people who have expressed interest, but we are all set for now. Hopefully we can grow and hire more of you in the future! Hiring was completely new territory for […]

Show Notes Launch day is coming up! How do you decide which ideas to kill, leave for later, or try to fit in before the launch. Hear everyone's thoughts as they get ready for launch day on the new CodePen. Show Links CodePen on Sparkbox Redesign ZenHub Trello iTunes Reviews Help If you're enjoying this […]

In this episode we take a look at something uniquely CodePen: the "Picks". Why did we start doing it? What are the upsides? downsides? We also look at a little bit of the tech behind how it works. Show Sponsor For years, Media Temple’s Grid service has been the web hosting choice of more designers, […]

Show Notes This is part two of four of a mini-series we're doing with the team we are working with at Sparkbox to redesign CodePen. This was recorded a number of ago just as we were wrapping up the research phase. Research is a huge topic and important for a lot of reasons. Perhaps the […]