This week we talk about what it took to wrap up the funding round we just went through. It took six months, but the money is actually in our account now, which is a rather surreal sight to see! There was a lot to go through. We probably signed a dozen or more documents along […]

Synopsis This week talk about documentation. As in, the information you make available to the people that use your site about how to use it. We have it. But is it any good? Eh. Could be better, could be worse. Show Sponsor For years, Media Temple’s Grid service has been the web hosting choice of […]

In this episode we talk about something pretty much every business needs to deal with these days: social media. Is it a marketing panacea? A time sink? A customer service portal? We certainly don't have all the answers, but we're trying. Episode Sponsor For years, Media Temple's Grid service has been the web hosting choice […]

This week we have on special guest Dee Gill. Dee does lots of work for us at CodePen. This week we have her on to talk specially about the work she did revolving around our funding. Part of that was financial data forecasting growth and profit and things like that. It's not quite as easy […]

This week we're continuing the conversation about our recent funding. There are loads of documents that are a part of the process. We talk about Californa vs Delware, LLC vs S-Corp vs C-Corp, Shares vs Preferred Shares, YC AA Docs vs Series Seed Docs, and more. Harvest makes time tracking easy for developers. Start a […]

Pretty big news for Team CodePen! We're in the process of finalizing our first ever funding round. We're going to do a few podcasts directly on this subject, and it's likely all our future podcasts will be influenced by it in some sense. Here's some answers to some of the obvious questions: How much? $1,000,000 […]

Our topic this week is marketing. Drip marketing, specifically. It's hard to explain all the features and benefits of your app to your users, and drip marketing (commonly known as automatic email responders) is a great way to explain features to your users. In this episode, we're going to share why drip marketing is important […]

It's easy to go down an edge case rabbit hole and waste time. But aren't we trained to do that as developers? Isn't that our job? Which ones should we focus on?

We're starting to use Amazon Web Services Lambda lately for some of our preprocessing work. It has it's ups and downs.

Our topic this week is JavaScript and it's many dangers. We discuss how we allow JavaScript in Pens and how we make that safe from cross-site scripting and other dangers and annoyances. Show Links: What is XSS? Play safely in sandboxed iframes If you have a job opening at your company, post it on the […]