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CodePen Radio
The CodePen team talk about the ins and outs of running a web software business.
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109 episodi
413: Still indie after all these years
We're over 13 years old as a company now. We decide that we're not a startup anymore (we're a "small business" with big dreams) but we are still indie...
412: 2.0 Embedded Pens
Or just "Embeds" as we more frequently refer to them as. Stephen and Chris talk about the fairly meaty project which was re-writing our Embeds for a C...
411: The Power of Tree-Sitter
Alex and Chris hop on the show to talk about a bit of technology that Alex calls "The 2nd best technological choice he's ever made." That technology i...
410: Trying to help humans in an industry that is becoming increasingly non-human
Chris & Marie jump on the podcast to talk about just how drastically customer support has changed over the last few years. We still exclusively do cus...
409: Our Own Script Injection
Chris and Stephen talk about how we use a Cloudflare Worker & HTMLRewriter to inject a very special tag into the previews of the Pens you work on. Th...
408: Proxied Third-Party JavaScript
Chris and Stephen hop on the podcast to discuss the concept of a proxy. Possibly the most "gray hat" thing that CodePen does. We use a third-party ana...
407: Our Own CDN
Robert and Chris jump on to talk about our little CDN project. Maybe that's not the right term, but we struggled with naming it. Truth be told, it's t...
406: Hot Trends of 2025
Marie and Chris jump on to discuss some of the trends of what people are building on CodePen here, approximately halfway through 2025.
405: Elasticsearch → Postgres Search
Alex & Chris get into a fairly recent technological change at CodePen where we ditched our Elasticsearch implementation for just using our own Postgre...
404: Preventing Infinite Loops from Crashing the Browser
Stephen and Chris hop on to talk about how we're saving everyone from crashed browser tabs in CodePen's 2.0 editor. One simple:
Executing JavaSc...
403: Privacy & Permissions
Chris & Rachel hop on the show to talk about the expanded privacy (access) model in the 2.0 editor (in Private Beta as we speak). Private Pens have al...
402: Bookmarks
Pins are dead!
Long live bookmarks!
Pins was never a good name for the feature we have on CodePen where you can mark a Pen or Collection t...
401: Outgoing Email
Hi!
We're back!
Weird right? It's been over 2 years.
We took a break after episode 400, not because we ran out of things to talk ab...
400: Hiatus
Marie and I jump on the show to tell y'all we're taking a little break! It feels like years since we've been eluding to the fact that we're working on...
399: Data Munging
There was a small problem in our database. Some JSON data we kept in a column would sometimes have a string instead of an integer. Like {"tabSize": "5...
398: DevOops
Stephen and I hop on the podcast to chat about some of our recent tooling, local development, and DevOps work. A little while back, we cleaned up our...
397: User-Generated Content Saftey
I was asked about the paradoxical nature of CodePen itself recently. CodePen needs to be safe and secure, yet we accept and gleefully execute user-aut...
396: Open Source
Robert and I jump on the podcast to have a little chat about open source generally and what we do with open source at CodePen. CodePen itself is not o...
395: The Most Hearted of 2022
Marie and I hop on the show to discuss our recently released Most Hearted of 2022 Pens. We only did the calculations the day before, so this is more o...
394: Very Remote Work
Rach lives in Australia, so for our otherwise U.S.-based team, that's about as remote as it gets. We've always been remote at CodePen, so we have it b...
393: Challenges in 2022
Marie and Chris talk about the year in CodePen Challenges. If you participate, this might be an interesting look into how we think about them. If you...
392: Project Management Refresh
Dee and Chris chat about our latest take on Project Management (PM), a somewhat tricky topic for us with such a small team where literally everyone is...
391: Early TypeScript at CodePen
TypeScript ain't exactly new, but it's a bit new to us. Robert was the most knowledgeable about TypeScript on the team and felt like it could be valua...
390: The Social Media Zeitgiest
Marie and I talk about what's going on in the world of social media, and what that might mean for CodePen and front-end developers. Twitter doesn't fe...
389: Migrating a Ruby on Rails GraphQL API to a Go GraphQL API
One thing that's been keeping us very busy at CodePen is moving our main API. We decided on GraphQL long ago and it's served us pretty well. We origin...
388: Durable Objects
Robert and I jump on to chat about Cloudflare's product Durable Objects. It's part of their Workers platform, which we already use at CodePen a good b...
387: CodePen Co-Founders AMA
A few months back, Alex and I did a 10-year anniversary episode that took the form of 10 bits of advice formed in the fires of running a software comp...
386: Hakim El Hattab
This week I got to speak with Hakim El Hattab. I feel pretty special as Hakim told me he doesn't do public stuff very often. I get it! He's a busy man...
385: Kristopher Van Sant
This week I got to talk to Kristopher Van Sant! Again! This time we got to talk about Kristopher's professional work as well as some favorite Pens.
384: The 300 Sparks Milestone
We just recently published the 300th CodePen Spark. Marie joins me on the show, as she leads up the creation of the vast majority of Spark newsletters...
383: Soft Delete All
In this show, Stephen and Chris get to talk about an internal technical detail we were improving in our database, which led to a public-facing feature...
382: Bulk Actions for Assets
CodePen will host your assets, like images, data models, libraries, whatever. It's quite useful! They are easy to browse, easy to copy URLs or code sn...
381: Data on External Library Usage
Marie and I this week! Marie dug up some interesting data about "external library" usage on CodePen. In the Pen Editor (specifically), you have the op...
380: Ol’ Jake
This week I got to speak with Jake Albaugh. Long-time listeners will remember Jake as an alumnus of Team CodePen. That's a first for a podcast guest!...
379: Chris & Alex have been running CodePen for 10 Years. What have they learned? Here’s the top 10!
Both Alex and I, the co-founders of CodePen, spent time trying to whittle down hopefully interesting and practical advice for you from our experience...
378: Lee Martin
This week I got to speak with Lee Martin! Lee is a fascinating fella, due in part to him having a job I think we all want: designing weird cool digita...
377: Jase Smith
This week I got to speak with Jase Smith, a kindred spirit bouncing across the designer/developer line out of Denver, Colorado. Before you know it, we...
376: Ilithya
This week I got to speak with Ilithya, who put together some favorite Pens, some of which we actually manage to get to during the show 😂. Like our c...
375: Craig Roblewsky
This week I got to speak with Craig Roblewsky! Craig does a lot of web animation and hangs around the Greensock forums quite a bit, giving him a uniqu...
374: Kevin Powell
This week I got to speak with Kevin Powell! Kevin has had tremendous success on YouTube educating people about CSS 'n' friends. But like so many good...