CodePen Radio

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 […]

Show Description CodePen is a 100% remote team. No two people work in the same city. Good or bad? Good, we say. In almost all ways, including the biggest one of all: we couldn't have assembled this team otherwise. It's not without it's challenges though. Show Sponsor CodePen Job Board - the place for front […]

Show Description It's almost always bad news to alter a third-party dependency. You wouldn't, for example, alter a core WordPress file to change how something works, because WordPress updates all the time (even automatically) and your changes would be wiped out. Ideally, third-party code offers hooks and APIs to change how it behaves. But what […]

Show Description Introducing our most recent hire, Rachel Smith! We talk about her use of CodePen's posts, moving from Australia to work in the U.S. with an E3, her first projects, and how awesome it is to hire and work with people who already know the project inside and out. Show Sponsor Visit MediaTemple.net/codepen and […]

Show Description We've long had Private Pens on CodePen. And we know that it's a huge reason people go PRO at all, much like GitHub. We also know that internally we use private but still on-the-internet stuff all the time, like Private Gists. Since we already have a feature for writing and it handles syntax […]

Show Description The web isn't video games, where it's well-understood that certain games only work on certain systems. The web is supposed to work everywhere. And not just in a fancy smart people philosophical way. In the sense that regular users expect that the sites they visit work in whatever browser they prefer, are used […]