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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…
11 months, 3 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 …
11 months, 4 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 …
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
406: Hot Trends of 2025
Marie and Chris jump on to discuss some of the trends of what people are building on CodePen here, approximately halfway through 2025.
New CSS!
Cus…1 year, 1 month ago
405: Elasticsearch → Postgres Search
Alex & Chris get into a fairly recent technological change at CodePen where we ditched our Elasticsearch implementation for just using our own Postgr…
1 year, 1 month ago
404: Preventing Infinite Loops from Crashing the Browser
Stephen and Chris hop on to talk about how we're saving everyone from crashed browser tabs in CodePen's 2.0 editor. One simple:
Executing JavaScript …
1 year, 2 months ago