CodePen Radio Podcast
1) #225: Learning New Things
Cassidy and Marie talk about their journey to keep learning new things, while also not stressing about trying to keep up with all the things in web development.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) 415: Babel Choices
Robert and Chris hop on the show to talk about choices we've had to make around Babel. Probably the best way to use Babel is to just use the @babel/preset-env plugin so you get modern JavaScript f...Show More
3) 414: Apollo (and the Almighty Cache)
Rachel and Chris jump on the show to talk about a bit of client-side technology we use: Apollo. We use it because we have a GraphQL API and Apollo helps us write queries and mutations that go through ...Show More
4) 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. We've seen trends come and go. We just do what w...Show More
5) 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 CodePen 2.0 world. No longer can we assume Pens are...Show More
6) 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 is called Tree-sitter. It's a code parsing tool for...Show More
7) 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 customer support over email. Incoming email from real...Show More
8) 409: Our Own Script Injection
Chris and Stephen talk about how we use a Cloudflare Worker & HTMLRewriter to inject a very special <script> tag into the previews of the Pens you work on. This script has a lot of important jobs so i...Show More
9) 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 analytics tool called Fullres. We could just put a li...Show More
10) 407: Our Own CDN
Robert and Chris jump on to talk about own own little CDN project. Maybe that's not the right term, but we struggled with naming it. Truth be told, it's the /public/ folder in our monorepo, where the ...Show More