CodePen Radio

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 […]

This week we're talking about Docker. One of the reason we're interested in Docker is because of how popular is (it's good to keep your finger on the pulse of popular new technologies). It's a big deal, but a surprisingly small number of people are using it. In this episode, we discuss what Docker is, […]

We've got a special guest this week: David Desandro. David left his job at Twitter a few years ago to found Metafizzy. We talk about his recent projects, policing licenses, leaving his safe job to start his own thing, how to deal with feature requests, handling customer support, how he uses CodePen in his business, […]

This week, we're talking about how we stay healthy at CodePen. 1:09 We're tech workers. We stare at computer monitors all day. Our default state is "not moving". We care about our health here at CodePen, so we try to be aware of certain things that affect our health, including diet, activity and exercise, and […]

This week we're talking about Settings. There are many settings in CodePen, and we've been working on them a lot lately. Common settings for a web app The most common settings in a web app are the passwords and user names, and notifications. We'll probably do a whole show on notifications, but today we're going […]

This week we talk about our recent migration on Amazon Web Services completely over to their newer VPC service, as we recently announced. 1:07 CodePen runs on servers, as all websites do. We chose AWS very early on. You've probably heard us talk about it on previous episodes. Why AWS? 1:47 We started working with […]

In this special questions-and-answers version of CodePen Radio, we reached out to you, and now we're going to answer your questions. 1:31 Q: Would you ever consider running a UI competition to redesign the CodePen homepage? A. Probably not. We'd love to have a great designer on the team to help with design stuff, but […]

This week we talk about what you can do after a negative event happens at your company. Things like downtime or a security breach. First priority is solving the problem. Second priority is making sure it doesn't happen again, and the first step toward that is a postmortem. Postmortems 00:36 A project postmortem is a […]