Podcast Episodes

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 …

8 months, 3 weeks 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/…

9 months 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…

9 months ago

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 indi…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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 …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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 …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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 cu…

10 months ago

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. T…

10 months, 1 week ago

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 an…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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 …

10 months, 3 weeks ago