CodePen Radio

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 […]

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 […]