CodePen Radio
By CodePen Radio
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Description
Chris Coyier, Alex Vazquez, and Tim Sabat, the co-founders of CodePen talk about the ins and outs of running a web software business.
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Clean#132: Jag Talon | Our guest this week is Jag Talon, a front end developer at DuckDuckGo! Jag talks to Marie and Tim S. about how hacking around on CodePen helped him learn CSS for his job, using CodePen Projects to redesign his podcast's website, | 5/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean#131: Going HTTPS | Marie, Tim H., and Alex are here to talk about the decision to go all in on HTTPS at CodePen. We talk about some of the reasons why we waited until now to make the switch, and how we plan to implement it across CodePen. | 5/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean#130: Projects Infrastructure (Part 2) | Tim, Alex, and Chris are here for another "propellerhead" episode, talking about what happens at a server and infrastructure level when a user creates a new Project. | 5/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean129: Projects Infrastructure | Tim, Alex, and Chris are here for a classic propellerhead episode - talking all things server infrastructure for CodePen Projects. All the fun server buzzwords are covered such as NFS, S3, EFS, Gulp, Docker, Docker Swarm, and AWS Nodes. | 5/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean128: Taking CodePen on the Road | Chris, Tim Holman, and Marie are talking about spreading the CodePen word at conferences, both as speakers and attendees. How do you not cross the line into smarmy marketing? Do you need business cards? We talk about what feels right, | 5/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean127: Alphas and Betas | Chris, Rachel, and Marie talk about the stages of testing CodePen's new Projects feature - moving from developing in "secret" to alpha, transitioning to invite-only beta and open beta, and managing communication with alpha and beta users. | 4/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean126: Project Management 2 | Marie, Alex, and Rachel talk project management for the payments update and the Project project. We talk about the tools we used to manage our projects, what we've learned while managing projects, and tips for folks about to manage their first big proj... | 4/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean125: Building Projects with React | Marie, Rachel, and Tim H. are founder-free this episode, talking about using React to build CodePen's newest Project feature. We talk about the deciding factors in choosing React for Projects, the learning curve, and the lessons learned. | 4/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean124: Projects | CodePen Projects is now officially in beta, and we're excited to talk to you about it! Chris, Rachel, Tim S, and Marie gather to discuss the hows and whys of CodePen Projects. | 4/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean123: Upselling | Chris, Tim H., and Marie gather to discuss how we upsell CodePen PRO. We talk about the process of identifying opportunities to upsell, avoiding dark patterns, and new ways of introducing our members to PRO features. | 3/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean122: Capacity Planning | Tim, Alex, and Chris are together answering a listener question about how we do capacity planning at CodePen. Thanks Frederick for the topic suggestion! Tim runs through all the details of how traffic is routed around CodePen's servers. | 3/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean121: Refactoring | Chris, Jake, and Dee gather to chat about refactoring the payment processing code and the creation of ownables. We talk about why we went through all this work and what it allows us to do in the future. | 3/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean120: Social Media | Chris & Marie talk about the benefits of focusing on CodePen's social media efforts. How do we engage with our audience on each platform? What did and didn't work on social media CodePen? Is there a way to measure the value of one platform over another? | 3/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean#119: Documentation 2 | Chris and Marie talk about what it's like to write and maintain documentation for a complex app. Can documentation also be marketing? What's it like keeping documentation inside WordPress? | 2/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean118: Email 2 | Chris, Tim H, and Marie talk about the nuts and bolts of the CodePen's Spark — the weekly email newsletter that highlights the coolest stuff from the previous week on CodePen. We get into the challenges of getting email _just right_, | 2/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean117: Leadership | Show Description The three founders, Tim, Alex, and Chris got together in person to work together and plan the future of CodePen. They turned on the mics to record this episode of CodePen Radio about the leadership structure of CodePen. | 2/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean116: Taxes and Accounting | Show Description It's tax time! Chris, Marie, and Dee Gill, CodePen's numbers sorceress, talk about the financial aspects of running a startup like CodePen — from payroll and taxes, to forecasting and reporting. | 2/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean115: Community 2 | CodePen always strives to be friendly place to take part in the world of front end development — it’s a playground! Our reward for our efforts is our big, diverse, exciting community of talented members. On this episode, Chris, Marie, | 1/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean114: GitLab | Show Description CodePen recently switched from GitHub to self-hosted GitLab. We're happy with it! In this episode, Chris, Rachel, and Tim talk about the differences between GitHub and GitLab, why we decided to make the change, the features we like, | 1/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean113: The CodePen Spark | Show Description We're launching a new feature called The CodePen Spark — a special newsletter devoted to highlighting awesome stuff around CodePen and the web at large. There are already lots of different ways to explore great content on CodePen, | 12/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean112: Project Management | Show Description CodePen has been working on a large, all-hands-on-deck project and through working on it we've realized we need to plan and organize our team better. Rachel, Chris, and Alex get together to talk through how we we went from probably a "... | 11/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean111: Meetups 2 | Show Description CodePen Meetups can be a ton of fun and place to learn about weird, interesting stuff that other folks are doing on CodePen - so we have Matt who organizes our Chicago CodePen Meetups to figure out what's working for him in Chicago and... | 11/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean110: Codeship | Show Description This week we've got Manuel Weiss from Codeship to talk about remote and local employees, running standups in Slack, pricing Codeship along with user's success, supporting customers as humans, deciding when to add a sales team, | 10/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean109: Dribbble | Show Description This week we've got Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett from Dribbble. Dribbble takes the cake for the business in this series that is the most similar to CodePen. Dribbble was first, paved a good amount of the ground we followed, | 10/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean108: Slides.com | Show Description This week we've got Hakim El Hattab and Owen Bossola, co-founders of Slides.com. They are a business that is smilar to CodePen in a number of ways, and we talk about things like building community among their users, | 9/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean107: Justin Gitlin | Show Description We're talking with Justin Gitlin who recently dissolved the agency, Modeset, that he was a part of for over 10 years. They focused on working with startups and helping them build their MVP and then moving on to the next project and hel... | 9/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean106: Roost | Show Description We've got Dan from Roost - a web notification service that helps businesses send better notifications to users. They rely heavily on native web technology to do what they do, which is interesting and slightly unusual. | 9/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean105: HoneyBadger | Show Description We're chatting with Josh and Ben from Honeybadger, a service for tracking errors in a web app. We use Honeybadger here at CodePen and find it extremely valuable. We also worked with Josh on upgrading Rails here at CodePen. | 9/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean104: Zapier | Show Description We're chatting with Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier ("Zapier makes you happier"), about Zapier's origin story, their fundraising experience, growing with your customers, dealing with user churn, | 8/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean103: CraftCMS | Show Description This is part 3 in a mini-series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. We're chatting with Brandon Kelly and Brad Bell from Pixel and Tonic, the company behind CraftCMS. | 8/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean102: BuySellAds | Show Description This is Part 2 in a mini series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. We're chatting with Todd Garland from BuySellAds about being the middle-person between publishers and advertisers - and building... | 8/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean101: Sparkbox | Show Notes This show kicks off what hopefully will be a 10-part mini series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. Some of them will be freemium SaaS (Software as a Service) like us, | 8/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean100: Big Ones | Show Description In this episode we talk about some of the biggest Pens of all time on CodePen. Most of them were not only just popular right on CodePen itself, but went viral and reached far beyond CodePen itself. | 7/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean099: Testing | Show Description The whole point of testing in development is so you don't write some new code that ends up affecting other code, causing it to fail or otherwise do something unexpected. You write some code, | 7/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean098: Animation | Show Description Of course there are loads and loads of animation examples on CodePen as Pens, but animation is also in use in the CodePen UI itself. How do we think about that? Why do we use it? When is it useful? How do we approach it with code? | 7/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean097: Stock | Show Description All of our hires so far at CodePen have some ownership of the company in the form of stock options. This seems to be the most popular option for companies like ours, but it's not the only way. | 7/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean096: Upgrading Rails | Show Description We're joined by Joshua Wood from Upgrade Rails and Honey Badger to talk about hiring a consultant to take care of upgrading CodePen's Rails rather than doing it ourselves. Show Sponsor CodePen PRO Show Links UpgradeRails. | 6/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean095: React | Show Description I Heard React Is Good. We're talking about a new project we're working on and how we decided to jump in and use React to build it. Rachel, Alex, Tim Holman, and Chris get together to share their path of learning about React. | 6/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean094: Employees | Show Description We're answering a listener question: What has changed for the 3 founders since adding employees to CodePen? How do we divide up the labor? Plus a really interesting discussion about the extra stresses involved of having employees. | 6/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean093: Picks 2 | Show Description We're doing another episode on how we do "Picks" on CodePen — this time with the people who do most of the picking on CodePen. Rachel, Marie, Chris, and Tim H. are on the episode to talk about how and why they pick the picks they do. | 6/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean092: Email | Show Description When Mailchimp announced major changes to Mandrill, the service we were using to send the vast majority of email out of CodePen, we had to make some major changes of our own. Cost was one consideration, | 5/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean091: Solr | Show Description We use a thing called Solr. We brought on a contractor — Andy Smith - to help us scale and improve Solr. Andy is into big data stuff and this, as we learn, qualifies as big data. As I write, there are 7.5 million Pens on CodePen, | 5/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean090: Evolution | Show Description Joakim Johansson writes: I am writing to you because I would love to know how it evolved. Like did you have the whole thing figured out from start or just some core feature and then iterated around it? | 5/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean089: Knowledge Management | Show Description We start with this admission, to which everyone agrees: None of us have a complete understanding of how CodePen works. At this stage, some of us think that while this is true, we could figure out the parts that we don't currently know.... | 5/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean088: Early Stage | Show Description We often get asked what it's like to work at a startup. So in this episode we thought we'd discuss what a startup means to each of us and what it's like working at CodePen at this stage (definitely "early"). | 5/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean087: CDN | Show Description In the previous episode, we talked about how we received a DDoS threat, and how our reaction was to beef up our infrastructure rather than pay. Turns out, as we also guessed, the threat was empty. We were well aware it could be, | 4/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean86: DDoS | Show Description We recently got a Dedicated Denial of Service threat email. An empty threat, probably (so far so good). But still, we're about the right size of a business to target and any amount of research will show that sometimes these things are ... | 4/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean085: Pagination | Show Description Pagination should be simple right? It's just some arrows you click to move between some content. We should probably be used to this by now: it's complicated. There are UI complications (e.g. | 4/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean084: Front | Show Description We've been using Front the last few months at CodePen for customer support. It handles incoming email as well as Twitter in a unified, team-based inbox. In this episode we talk about what it does for us, why we like it, | 4/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean083: Feature Requests | Show Description The whole gang is together! Last week we had a whole-team get together and we figured we'd record a podcast while all there. All of us have been on the receiving end of feature requests from our community. | 3/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean082: Partnerships | Show Description We've done a number of partnerships in the history of CodePen. No two are ever the same. In this podcast we talk about a number of them. How them came together, how they worked out. Plus a few that never really materialized. | 3/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean081: Swag | Show Description We're joined by Sara Cope, who takes care of all swag for CodePen (in addition to CSS-Tricks, ShopTalk, her day job, and helping things just generally run more smoothly around here). Why do we have swag at all? | 3/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean080: Spot Instances | Show Description In this show we talk about Amazon Spot Instances. The story story: they are Amazon servers with their own little economy. You bid on them, like you would at auction. There is no guarantee you'll get to keep the server. Get outbid, | 3/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean079: Console | Show Description Tim Holman took the lead on building out CodePen Console, so he's on to talk about it. There are lots of good reasons why we have our own console even though the browser has (an undoubtedly more powerful) console in the DevTools. | 3/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean078: .com | Show Description This is the story of how CodePen aquired CodePen.com, after many years of not owning it. In the beginning, I think we just didn't care. This was a bit of a hobby project. We bought the domain at a time when we still mostly were thinkin... | 2/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean077: Remote | Show Description CodePen is a 100% remote team. No two people work in the same city. Good or bad? Good, we say. In almost all ways, including the biggest one of all: we couldn't have assembled this team otherwise. | 2/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean076: Core Changes | Show Description It's almost always bad news to alter a third-party dependency. You wouldn't, for example, alter a core WordPress file to change how something works, because WordPress updates all the time (even automatically) and your changes would be ... | 2/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean075: Rachel | Show Description Introducing our most recent hire, Rachel Smith! We talk about her use of CodePen's posts, moving from Australia to work in the U.S. with an E3, her first projects, and how awesome it is to hire and work with people who already know the... | 2/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean074: Privacy | Show Description We've long had Private Pens on CodePen. And we know that it's a huge reason people go PRO at all, much like GitHub. We also know that internally we use private but still on-the-internet stuff all the time, like Private Gists. | 1/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean073: Browsers | Show Description The web isn't video games, where it's well-understood that certain games only work on certain systems. The web is supposed to work everywhere. And not just in a fancy smart people philosophical way. | 1/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean072: Downtime | Show Description We talk about downtime - planned or otherwise. We talk about how we attempt to alert users of upcoming planned downtime. We talk about reasons why downtime might occur and how to minimize it. | 1/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean071: Health Insurance | Show Description Getting health insurance figured out for a small business is no fun. We tasked Alex with figuring out what our options are to make sure all of us are covered. Show Links Trinet United Health Care Healthcare. | 1/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean070: Deployment | Show Description Tim walks us through all the stuff involved with deploying CodePen to the 30-some servers that power it. Plus we learn what the Cattle vs Pets metaphor is all about. Show Links Capistrano [Solr](solar server farm) SideKiq Coffeescript ... | 12/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean069: Immigration | Show Description This episode we talk with Elizabeth Jamae of Jamae Law Group about what's involved in bringing someone from outside the US to come work for you - using our own Tim Holman as an example. Show Sponsor Bushel - Set up and protect your App... | 12/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean068: Albaugh | Show Description Jake Albaugh is our latest hire! We have him on to talk about what it was like to get hired and join the CodePen team - including the feature he got to work on first. Show Links Jake on Twitter Jake on CodePen Alex on Twitter Alex on C... | 11/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean067: Holman | Show Description Hiring a developer from overseas brings it's own unique challenges: immigration questions, salary questions, and onboarding. We chat with Tim Holman on what his first couple of weeks here at CodePen have been like. | 11/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean066: Lawyer | Show Description Come level up your lawyer speak as we speak with Alex King, the lawyer who helped us through raising our first funding round here at CodePen. Show Links Bend Law Group TechStars Hello Sign | 11/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean065: Third Parties | Show Links About CodePen New Relic Skylight Vivid Cortex Data Dog Google Analytics Philip Walton Full Story PubNub Mandrill Gusto / ZenPayRoll ADP Quickbooks Slack Codeship on ShopTalk Show Codeship Semaphore Honeybadger AWS Mac Stadium Pingdom CodeMir... | 11/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean064: Redesign 4 | The redesign has been live for a few weeks now. Or at least "Phase One" of it, we might say. The reactions have been overwhelmingly positive, but of course not all of it. We talk about the launch and how it went down from a technical perspective, | 10/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean063: Activity | Show Notes This week we talk about the "Recent Activity" feature on CodePen. It's tricker than it looks. The beginnings of the idea was based on logging actions for support reasons. For instance, if we log the fact that a user deleted a Pen, | 10/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean062: Marie | Show Notes We just recently welcomed Marie Mosley as our first employee ever here at CodePen. In this show we have her on to talk about her work and her relevant past work and such. Show Sponsor FullStory gives web teams a clear view into whether or no... | 10/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean061: Hiring | Show Notes Good News / Bad News: we're all full up on employees already. We'd love to be able to hire more of the wonderful people who have expressed interest, but we are all set for now. Hopefully we can grow and hire more of you in the future! | 10/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean060: Redesign 3 | Show Notes Launch day is coming up! How do you decide which ideas to kill, leave for later, or try to fit in before the launch. Hear everyone's thoughts as they get ready for launch day on the new CodePen. Show Links CodePen on Sparkbox Redesign ZenHub... | 9/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean059: Picks | In this episode we take a look at something uniquely CodePen: the "Picks". Why did we start doing it? What are the upsides? downsides? We also look at a little bit of the tech behind how it works. Show Sponsor For years, | 9/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean058: Redesign 2 | Show Notes This is part two of four of a mini-series we're doing with the team we are working with at Sparkbox to redesign CodePen. This was recorded a number of ago just as we were wrapping up the research phase. | 9/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean057: RDS | Show Notes We recently underwent out biggest database migration yet. This time, to Amazon RDS. There were loads of advantages to this. Perhaps the biggest was getting onto a platform that is absolutely built for this. | 9/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean056: Redesign 1 | Show Notes This podcast was recorded a number of months ago as we kicked off a big new project: a redesign of CodePen itself in partnership with Sparkbox. We're documenting the process along the way. If you listen to this podcast, | 9/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean055: Experts | About the Show In this episode we talk about when we lean on experts as a business. We can do so casually, like asking for advice over coffee. Or we can level that up to hiring on consultants and freelancers for their expertise. | 9/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean054: Finalizing | This week we talk about what it took to wrap up the funding round we just went through. It took six months, but the money is actually in our account now, which is a rather surreal sight to see! There was a lot to go through. | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean053: Documentation | Synopsis This week talk about documentation. As in, the information you make available to the people that use your site about how to use it. We have it. But is it any good? Eh. Could be better, could be worse. Show Sponsor For years, | 9/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean052: Social | 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. | 8/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean051: Finances | 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 thin... | 8/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean050: Documents | 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, | 8/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean049: Funding | 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. | 8/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean048: Drip | 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 u... | 7/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean047: Edge Cases | 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? | 7/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean046: Lambda | We're starting to use Amazon Web Services Lambda lately for some of our preprocessing work. It has it's ups and downs. | 7/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean045: JavaScript Security | 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? | 7/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean044: Search | 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... | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean043: Podcasting | 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. | 6/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean042: Settings 2 | 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 tho... | 6/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean041: Open Source | 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. | 5/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean040: Newsletters | 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? | 5/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean039: Docker | 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 usi... | 4/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean038: DeSandro | 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, | 4/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean037: Health | 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 aff... | 3/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean036: Settings | 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. | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean035: VPC | 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. | 2/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean034: Q & A | 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. | 2/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean033: Postmortems | 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, | 1/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean032: Secrets | The week we talk secrets. 2:02 Every company has lots of secrets. We're going to talk about how we keep our secrets secure. We aren't talking about secrets like our plans to take over the world, but things like social security numbers, | 1/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean031: Different | This week on CodePen Radio: a special holiday edition where we get a little sentimental and also talk about the past two years at CodePen and the things that make CodePen awesome and different. (Pardon the self-back-patting, again, | 1/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean030: Jobs | This past week, we launched our new Job Board. This is a place on CodePen where people can post jobs to find great developers. Our New Job Board 1:10 We're trying to have a successful business. To do that, you need to make money. | 12/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean029: Testing | This week, we're talking about testing: what testing is, the different kinds of tests we run at CodePen, and why they are important. What kind of testing do we do at CodePen? 2:28 Mostly unit testing. You have a pre-defined set of inputs, | 12/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean028: Users | This week on CodePen Radio, we're talking about users: who our users are, what they expect, where they come from, and things like that. Doing some research 1:45 We wanted to do some research to understand our users: who is coming to CodePen, and why? | 12/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean027: Scaling | This week on CodePen Radio, we're talking about Scaling. We're returning to the land of servers to discuss how we scaled CodePen. What is scaling? 1:30 When we talk about scaling, we're talking about our backend servers being able to handle the growth ... | 11/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean026: Meetups | This week on CodePen Radio we talk about Meetups. We're having our very first CodePen meetup ever on November 6, 2014. The location will be a bar called Bungalow, in Austin, TX. News: We've started giving out a free 14 day trial of CodePen Pro. | 11/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean025: Payments | This week on CodePen Radio, we're talking about the tech behind taking payments in a web app. If you want to make money with any kind of online business, money will need to change hands. We go over the different options for payment processing, | 10/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean024: Responsibility | This week on CodePen Radio, we're talking about responsibility. We're all responsible for keeping the site up, but we are going get into the details of what our different roles require, and what it means to take responsibility for your product. | 10/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean023: Churn | This week on CodePen Radio, something that affects all web apps that use the subscriber model: Churn. 1:08 CodePen's primary income comes from people signing up for Pro accounts. The idea is that we grow as a business as more people sign up. | 9/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean022: Advertising | This week on CodePen Radio, we talk advertising. Both sides: using advertising as part of a business model as well as using advertising to grow. 1:20 We use advertising on CodePen. Shortly after we started, | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean021: Planning | We got together this week to talk about Feature Planning because that's what we actually did this week! One of the ways that your business can grow and be more profitable is to expand on the feature set of your app. | 9/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean020: APIs | Why would we be talking about APIs, CodePen doesn't even have one, right? It's true, we don't have what is considered a traditional API. We explain why (and that we kinda do), and dig into the ins and outs of APIs on web apps. | 8/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean019: Support | This week we talk about customer support. Pretty much all web apps need to have some system for customer support. How that goes can take many forms. 1:28 We provide support for CodePen through our support form (Wufoo form that goes to a shared Google A... | 8/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean018: SEO | This week on CodePen Radio, we dig into search engine optimization (SEO). Why it matters, what is specific to CodePen and what isn't, how it relates to user generated content, moral obligations, best practices, different approaches to it, and more. | 7/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean017: Community | 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. | 7/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean016: Blogging | 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, | 6/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean015: Changing Your Mind | 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 PR... | 6/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean014: Security | 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. | 6/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean013: Backups | 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 | 5/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean012: VC | 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. | 5/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean011: The Law | 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, | 5/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean010: Email | 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. | 5/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean009: Code Quality | 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. | 4/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean008: Bad Guys | 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 | 4/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean007: Complexity | As we're about ready to release our new PRO Teams feature, we talk about the idea of complexity in web software. This feature was incredibly complex for us, in some ways because software is inherently complex, | 3/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean006: Money 2 | We weren't able to get all our money talk into one episode! We continue that here, mostly focusing on outgoing money this time instead of incoming money. Links from the episode: The Noun Project | 3/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean005: Money | We discuss money. The different services we use, pricing, and why we went with a recurring revenue model for CodePen. We talk mostly about incoming money, saving outgoing money for the next episode. We also discuss sharing financials and what's in it f... | 3/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean004: Teamwork | All about how we work together as a team. | 3/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean003: Software | CodePen, like any web app these days, is powered by a heaping helping of open source software. Links from the episode: Sinatra Phantom JS Socket.io Faye youmightnotneedjquery.com Lo-Dash Underscore.js CodeMirror | 2/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean002: Servers | There are 16 17 servers that power CodePen. Links from the episode: Virtual Box Vagrant Amazon Web Services Network Solutions Auto Scaling CodePen Capistrano LiveReload Socket.io Chef Mac Stadium Redis.io | 2/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean001: The Big Idea | Chris, Tim, and Alex talk about two big ideas: the idea behind this new podcast, and the idea behind CodePen itself. | 2/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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