CodePen Radio

Marie and I jump on the show to tell yall were taking a little break! It feels like years since weve been eluding to the fact that were working on a new major upgrade to CodePen. Rather than keep dancing around it, were going to minimize or remove workin

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} instead of {tabSize: 5} of the like. Investigation on how that happened was just silly stuff like not cal

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 entire monorepos circular dependency problems using Madge and elbow grease. That kind of thing usually i

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-authored code, which is like dont-do-that 101 in web security. Marie and I hop on the show to talk this th

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 open source, aside from the small bits weve made public and the open-source things we include within it.