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 […]

Our topic this week is Search. In this episode, we discuss how we do search on CodePen, some of the challenges we face, how we handle spam, and Tim shares four great tips on setting up search on your site. Show Links: Google Custom Search Engine Apache Solr Lucene If you have a job opening […]

We got a bunch of questions from a listener (Hey Greg!) about podcasting, so in this episode we're talking about our podcasting process. What is a Podcast? 1:47 A podcast is an RSS feed (XML data) that you host somewhere that people can subscribe to. Podcast RSS feeds have a few extra pieces of data […]

Back in episode 36, we talked about some changes we made to how we do settings in individual Pens. We just rolled out a big update to settings in CodePen; so this episode is going to be about that process and the challenges we ran into while making those changes to our codebase. It ended […]

Our topic this week is Open Source. 1:46 There are a few other code processing apps that are open source; JS Bin and Dabblet, for example. So why isn't CodePen open source? That's the question we're answering on today's episode. Would a GitHub issue thread be a good place for customer support? 3:39 It is […]

Our topic this week is Email Newsletters. CodePen has an email newsletter, and so we're dedicating this whole show to talking about how we create it, and the tools we use for managing those emails. Why Email? 1:38 Email is a great way to communicate with your users directly. If you have a web application […]