Podcast Episodes

423: 2.0 Templates

Stephen and Chris hop on the ol' podcast to talk about all the ways that Templates are way better in 2.0 land. You've always been able to make your o…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

422: Supporting Packages

Alex and Chris talk about how the 2.0 Editor supports packages from npm. The trick is both simple and complex. The idea is simple. We detect the pack…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

421: View Control of the 2.0 Editor

Stephen & Chris look at the UI of the 2.0 Editor and show all the control you have over what you're looking at. Way more control than the Classic edi…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

420: What are Blocks?

With CodePen 2.0, we've got a new word we're using: Blocks. A way to think about Blocks is anything that processes code. They are added as steps to t…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

419: Why 2.0?

CodePen 2.0 was the most ambitious project that we've ever taken on in our lives. Why would we do such a thing? Chris and Alex explain the thinking b…

7 months ago

418: CodeMirror 6

Chris Coyier and Stephen Shaw discuss the transition from CodeMirror 5 to CodeMirror 6, highlighting the significant improvements in accessibility, p…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

417: Iframe Allow Attribute Saga

There was a day not long ago where a Google Chrome browser update left any page with a CodePen Embed on it throwing a whole big pile of red JavaScrip…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

416: Upgrading Next.js & React

Shaw and Chris are on the show to talk about the thinking and challenges behind upgrading these rather important bits of technology in our stack. We …

11 months ago

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/…

11 months, 1 week ago

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 he…

11 months, 2 weeks ago