The word "Community" gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? This week, we dig into what the CodePen community is, the value it creates for us and the people who use CodePen, how we shape the community, and more. 1:08 Community is an essential part of CodePen. 1:52 How do we […]

This week on CodePen Radio, we're discuss our brand new blogging feature. 2:00 Why did we create the blogging feature? It was primarily because we watched how people used CodePen. What people were doing was taking their entire Pen and describing it, with text, inside the Pen. 6:32 Embedded Pens make blog posts better, so […]

This week we are talking about changing your mind. As your web app evolves, sometimes new information comes to light, and you need to be able to change your mind. 0:54 For example: here at CodePen, we started out with two kinds of accounts: free and PRO. At some point, we had a discussion with […]

This week we talk Security, a crucial part of any web app. We talk about security in general, what we do to secure and protect CodePen users, and what you can do to protect your web app. 2:00 You should be hashing and salting usernames and passwords. 2:43 After salting, even if a hacker brute […]

This week we talk about backups. How we backup the application, the assets, and most importantly, all the data in all the databases and other data stores we use. Masterslave replication Redis Amazon S3 Phantom JS

We've never specifically sought out VC funding at CodePen, but there was a time when several of them approached us. We knew very little about how that world works, so we learned about it. As you might expect, the decision and process isn't easy. In this episode we talk about our experiences with all that. […]

This week we talk about how the law affects our business. For example, how we chose a business type and getting set up as an S-Corp, the types of law-breaking that are possible on CodePen, how and why we license Pens, our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and more.

Email is the topic this week. Marketing email, transactional email, all kinds of email. It's a fact of life in web apps. At CodePen we've used a variety of different tech to deal with it and had our share of ups and downs. Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) Mailchimp Mandrill

This week we talk about code quality. Not what makes code well written or not broken, but code that matches an agreed to syntax, is consistent, and matches some generic best practices that can be determined algorithmically. JSLint ES Lint Sublime Text Sublime Linter Syntastic Rubocop: a Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community […]

This week, we talk about "bad guys": the people that make life difficult for the CodePen community, and what we do to mitigate or prevent the damage. Show Links: Code of Conduct ShopTalk Show: One on One with a Hacker Solr Search Platform Bug Bounty