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BE WARNED! This podcast will contain spoilers for Wednesday Season 2, episodes 1-4. Join host Caitlin Reilly each week as she takes you deep into the twisted world of Wednesday with an amazing group of guests! And producer Thing will be helping out to make sure everything goes to plan - well, mostly, anyway... In this episode: Jenna Ortega peels back the layers on the new tension between Wednesday and Enid. And that terrifying vision! Plus… Series showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar reveal why they made Morticia Addams such a central character in this season, and what it means for Wednesday. Whether you’re a normie or an outcast, the Wednesday Season 2 Official Woecast will be the place for all things Nevermore! For more juicy details about Wednesday Season 2, head over to Tudum.com to get all of the latest updates. 1:15 Preparing for Season 2 3:25 Evolving Wednesday’s look for Season 2 4:12 Addams clan expands for Season 2 6:12 Joanna Lumley joining the cast 7:38 Wednesday and Enid's Friendship 9:00 Wednesday’s Vision 10:50 Jenna is a Producer 13:45 Al and Miles introduction 14:03 Wednesday takes down a Serial Killer 15:05 Intergenerational Relationships & the Addams Women 17:48 Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia in Season 2 20:48 Wednesday and Enid’s relationship 24:04 Steve Buscemi joining the cast 26:19 Wednesday’s popular! 27:45 Boy with the Clockwork Heart stop motion sequence…

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404: Preventing Infinite Loops from Crashing the Browser

12 days ago

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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 can cause a browser tab to entirely lock up, preventing you from doing anything, like potentially saving your work. It can even crash other same-domain tabs. But not on our watch! CodePen is now using a "heartbeat" technique to report up from the preview iframe to the parent page, and if we don't hear the heartbeat, we can rip out the iframe and stop the crash. But it was very tricky to get working and not too jumpy. Fortunately, we got it all working, because our previous technique of instrumenting your JavaScript wasn't going to scale well to the 2.0 editor. Time Jumps…

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403: Privacy & Permissions

22 days ago

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Chris & Rachel hop on the show to talk about the expanded privacy (access) model in the 2.0 editor (in Private Beta as we speak). Private Pens have always been a big deal, but as private as they are, if someone has the URL, they have the URL, and it doesn't always feel very private. There are two new levels of privacy in the 2.0 editor: password protected and collaborators only. Passwords are an obvious choice we probably should have done long ago. With it, both the Pen in the editor itself, as well as the potentially deployed site are password protected. Our new permissions model is intertwined in this. Now you can invite others directly to be a fellow Editor or simply a Viewer to an otherwise private Pen. If you set the privacy level to "collaborators only", that's the most private a Pen can possibly be. Time Jumps…

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402: Bookmarks

5 weeks ago

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Pins are dead! Long live bookmarks! Pins was never a good name for the feature we have on CodePen where you can mark a Pen or Collection to more quickly jump back to it from anywhere on the site. The word is too similar to "Pen" that it's just awkward, not to mention it's not exactly and obvious metaphor. A bookmark is a much more clear term and icon, so we decided to switch to it. Switching the UI is kind of the easy part. It's kind of a cultural thing at CodePen, but when we make a change like this, we change it 100% through the entire code base, down to the database itself. In order to do that, we had to chunk it into stages so that those stages can roll out independently, but in order, to make it seamless. Now that it's done, we were able to extend the functionality of Bookmarks a bit, such that bookmarking a template is extra useful. One place to see that is on the new Create page . As an extra bit of history, the idea for Bookmarks came from Katie Kovalcin when we worked with Sparkbox for a redesign ages ago, then Klare Frake took the idea home . Time Jumps…

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401: Outgoing Email 33:54

6 weeks ago33:54

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Hi! We're back! Weird right? It's been over 2 years. We took a break after episode 400, not because we ran out of things to talk about, but because we were so focused on our CodePen 2.0 work, it got old not being able to discuss it yet. We'll be talking plenty about that going forward. But CodePen has a ton of moving parts, so we'll be talking about all of it. This week we'll be kicking off the podcast again talking about a huge and vital bit of CodePen infastructure: our email system. Outgoing email, that is. We get plenty of incoming email from y'all as well, but this is about the app itself sending email. Timeline Links…

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397: User-Generated Content Saftey 32:52

3 years ago32:52

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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 don't-do-that 101 in web security. Marie and I hop on the show to talk this through as an update from quite a long time ago . It's wonderfully-terribly complicated. Part of what complicates it is that there are many different kinds of worrisome code, from malicious, to distasteful, to spam, and they all need different treatment. This is a daily and never-ending war. Time Jumps Sponsor: Notion Notion is an amazing collaborative tool that not only helps organize your company’s information but helps with project management as well. We know that all too well here at CodePen, as we use Notion for countless business tasks. Learn more and get started for free at notion.com . Take your first step toward an organized, happier team, today.…

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358: CJ Gammon 33:43

3 years ago33:43

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I got to chat with CJ Gammon this week! CJ is a creative technologist , a term he's tried to hang onto as he does more development work, so he can continue to communicate that he's a designer as well. CJ has been at Adobe for nearly 10 years and has played with a huge variety of interesting creative technologies. Time Jumps…

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357: Ryan Mulligan 35:12

3 years ago35:12

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This week I get to talk to Ryan Mulligan ! Ryan put together a Collection of some of his personal picks for favorite Pens and we get a chance to talk through a lot of them. There are some classic moments here I really feel, like when something you consider pretty basic gets way more popular than you ever thought it would. Ryan has a knack for feeling out really cool new technologies and then quickly using them to build great demos that play up what those technologies were born to do. Time Jumps Sponsor: Automattic Automattic are the makers of WordPress.com , the fastest and easiest place to spin up a WordPress site, without sacrificing the power of self-hosted options. If you sell stuff on WordPress.com, the built-in help to do that is powered by WooCommerce , the premier eCommerce solution for WordPress. It's the same WooCommerce whether you are on WordPress.com or not. If you are self-hosted, you can almost certainly take advantage of Jetpack , Automattic's WordPress plugin that adds enormous functionality to WordPress, like a vastly improved site search, real-time backups, security features, and tons more.…

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#329: Gathering Data 37:07

4 years ago37:07

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Marie and Chris talk about all the sources of data we have, think about, and use to help us. We do have one main database on CodePen, and truth be told, it's got a bunch of data in it. If we want to know how many Pens there are, we can just ask it. We can learn a lot from asking that database questions, and we even have fancy charts that express information like that to us on dashboards. But that database isn't the only place we have data, because it doesn't know everything. It can't tell us, for example, how many times a feature is toggled on and off, because we don't track that kind of data in our main database. But we can track that data, and do when we need to with Appcues. And then there is general analytic data like traffic which we can explore with Cloudflare. And support-driven data we can look at in Front. And that's not all. When answering important business questions, the data can come from lots of sources. Time Jumps Sponsor: Clubhouse Your project management tool should be a breeze to setup, at least mildly enjoyable to use, and help evolve your already existing development workflows so it's easier to get things done. Does that describe your current tool? If it does, great! You can stop reading. If not, then Clubhouse could be the perfect fit. We're project management built specifically for software teams and we're fast, intuitive, flexible, powerful, and many other nice, positive adjectives. Delight the grumpiest scrum masters with Clubhouse .…

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#328: Large Scale Planning 39:15

4 years ago39:15

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Chris and Klare chat about the incredibly daunting task of planning a project that is huge and long-term . We know we're pretty OK at planning smaller-scale projects. We plan, we kanban, we get the job done. But a single basic kanban isn't going to cut it for a truly gigantic project. We get into talking about chopping the project into phases, chopping those phases into sections (sometimes with their own phases), and a databasing/kanbaning strategy to tie it all together. This also touches GitHub workflows and meeting structures, so there is a lot to think through here and it requires constant effort. Time Jumps Sponsor: WordPress.com Growth Summit The WordPress.com Growth Summit is coming up August 17th (Americas & EMEA) and August 18th (Asia Pacific) and is focused on running a business with a WordPress website as a core. Get expert advice on how to design your site, write effective copy, attract traffic, build a community, and earn money.…

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#327: 99.999% Uptime 32:29

4 years ago32:29

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Chris & Alex talk about DevOps, servers, and keeping CodePen online at all times. We were are 100% for the year until a few weeks ago when we had a 10 minute drop. That still keeps us in the realm of 99.99% uptime, where we get 52 minutes and 35 seconds of downtime per year, but next year we're shooting for 5-nines, that is, 99.999% uptime, where we only get 5 minutes and 16 seconds of downtime. Of course, our goals (and eventually, promises) can only be as strong as the service providers we use. Thankfully with providers like AWS and Cloudflare, we're in good hands. There are a number of things that have traditionally got in the way of this high of uptime, like database manipulation work. These days, we have the tech and the strategies for that, like seeding a newly manipulated database alongside the existing one and cutting over. We also have code in place for doing intelligent things like cutting off services if they become unreliable, rather than letting them bog down or kill the site entirely. Time Stamps Sponsor: Netlify Netlify is the Jamstack hostess with the mostest. Netlify Dev allows you to run their entire platform on your own machine. That means being able to test things like cloud functions, redirects, form submissions, etc without even having to do a preview build. Another aspect of Netlify, that is fundamental, is that you don't really have to worry about scaling on Netlify. Your static-based site is ready to scale to any level, and that includes all the cloud functions too, as they are lambdas and designed to scale.…

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#326: Design Pattern Deepdives: Tabs and InfoBox 29:20

4 years ago29:20

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Chris and Stephen pick out a couple of components from our design pattern library (which we talked about last here ) and go into why they exist, what they do, what makes them complex, and the API choices. Relatively new to us is the idea of compound components which have, so far, been good to us as far as composing components in a way that makes them easier to use and more flexible. Time Jumps Sponsor: Jetpack We're fans of Jetpack ! You might recognize Instant Search right here in the CodePen docs. But we're well aware that not everybody feels as strongly positively as we do. Last call here... have your say, tell us why you don't use it if you don't:…

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#324: How can we help you better? 17:33

4 years ago17:33

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Chris and Marie talk about customer support. If you're a regular listener of this show, you'll remember that we've had a lot of success with customer support over the last year, the point that our volume of direct support is rather low. That'll happen when you fix every major problem that comes up. But it also means that we have some space to do better! It's a big bummer when we have a customer leave when they never reach out at all to get a hand from us on whatever they might need. It leaves us thinking... what else can we do? Can we help you with anything? We've been trying a handful of things to get better data and answers to these kind of questions. And that Call-To-Action: If we can do anything to help you, hit us up. Time Jumps Sponsor: WooCommerce + MailPoet = Paid Newsletter Subscriptions! WooCommerce is the premier eCommerce plugin for WordPress. MailPoet brings a fancy email builder right into WordPress. Combine the two and you get more than power of them individually. For one thing, you get extra powerful eCommerce email abilities — things like abandoned cart emails. Better, you can combine them to make a paid subscription newsletter , but powered by your own site!…

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#323: Trends 34:34

4 years ago34:34

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Chris & Marie talk about some of the types of Pens that have been particularly popular this year so far, now that's we're halfway through it. There is still plenty of time to make the best-of-the-year list (you could make a Pen the third week of December and still make it!). Heads up though, giving out hearts in general on CodePen is a great idea as it helps improve search results, helps improve your own personal feeds, and helps people feel good about what they make. Some trends are eternal, some trends are ephemeral, and we talk about them both. Time Jumps Sponsor: Netlify The original coiners of Jamstack ! Netlify helps you with everything Jamstack. They are a static file host, which is incredibly useful already, in that it means your site is fast and secure and scales forever. That also opens the door for deploy previews, which have gotten even more amazing lately with feedback tools built right in. But they also help with dynamic aspects of the Jamstack like processing your forms and running cloud functions.…

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#322: Upgrading Upgrades 24:14

4 years ago24:14

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Dee and Chris talk about a recent release where we re-built the upgrade experience on CodePen. For example, you're a free user, you want to upload an asset, you can upload via a modal that pops up, and get on with your task. You could kind of do that before, but it was much jankier UI and UX. This release brings that experience in line with current design patterns on CodePen. But the reality of this release is much deeper than that. There were a half-dozen or more mostly behind-the-scenes releases that were stepping stones to this. The biggest of which was around cleaning up our billing model and billing data into a much easier to manage and much cleaner place. While doing that work, we identified some users that needed to upgrade to maintain their status, so a big aspect of this release was reaching out to them about that, which meant building the lowest-friction-possible upgrading experience and giving us a chance to try out something we'd never tried before: discounts. Time Jumps Sponsor: Jetpack Jetpack has a brand new mobile app . It's essentially the WordPress app, except a bit more streamlined. It allows you to connect to your self-hosted WordPress sites and manage everything from content and comments to plugins and backups.…

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#320: Andy and Una from Google’s Learn CSS Project 32:53

4 years ago32:53

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Learn CSS is a very cool project from a whole team of people at Google (and outside). It does a great job of documenting where is right now, in a fairly comprehensive way. Learn CSS was spearheaded by Una Kravets and Andy Bell did the bulk of the writing, so they are two extra-special guests to have on the show to talk about it. Why CodePen Radio though? Because there are literally hundreds of Embedded Pens used in this course, all using a style guide base and are live editors in the site itself. Cool! Time Jumps Sponsor: WooCommerce WooCommerce supports Apple Pay at checkout now, which is a nice thing to offer. Some people have pretty strong preferences for how they pay online, and it's best to meet them there rather than force one particular payment method.…

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#319: Pattern Library 39:22

4 years ago39:22

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Stephen and Chris talk about cplibrary the Pattern Library that the CodePen Monorepo can use to share components. What goes in there and what doesn't? What are common and not-so-common components? Can components be combinations of other components? Time Jumps Sponsor: Lemon Productions Chris Enns of Lemon Productions edits this podcast. Got a podcast you wanna outsource the editing on? Hit him up.…

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#318: Anna Lytical on What CodePen Is 29:42

4 years ago29:42

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When Anna Lytical heard Stephen and I talking about "What is CodePen?" she mentioned we did fab without her . So of course, I had to do one with her! Anna creates fun coding content all over the web, in addition to being an engineer at Google. Catch her on YouTube , Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter . For Anna, the appeal of CodePen is in the simplicity: nothing to set up, easy/free to get started, and you can get to the heart of learning quickly. Not to mention the sharing—as a teacher you can provide code as simply as sharing a URL. And of course, all the existing code to be inspired by! Timestamps Sponsor: Netlify Did you see that Netlify bought FeaturePeek and rolled into into all Deploy Previews ? They did! It's cool! Imagine you need to make a change to a website, and need approval from a client first. You can do a Pull Request against the site and your Netlify-hosted site will give you a URL with a Deploy Preview. They've done that forever, and it's incredibly useful. Now, it's even more useful, as that client can open up a little UI widget on the Deploy Preview and give feedback. They don't need to know anything about GitHub, yet their feedback can manifest as a GitHub Issue. And that's just one possible integration.…

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#317: Chattin’ with Stephanie Eckles 29:47

4 years ago29:47

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I got to chat with Stephanie this week, a senior web engineer at Microsoft, who I've given the prestigious gold-star award for top front-end web development content producer this year ;). She's got so many cool projects like Modern CSS , Style Stage , SmolCSS , and a beginner course on making a website . So many of the sites she makes are in Eleventy , she's taken to teaching that too, like on her site 11ty Rocks and on Egghead . She's always teaching, like through her podcast Word Wrap or in online workshops . Catch up with Stephanie on CodePen , GitHub , Twitter , and her personal website . Sponsor: Jetpack Backup Jetpack offers Full Site Backup (database, theme, assets... everything), but it doesn't just back everything up, it goes above and beyond. For one thing, you can get real-time backups if you need, meaning everything is backed up as it happens, not day-by-day. You can also restore your site to any previous backup with the click of a button. That's above and beyond right there. But if you're a WooCommerce user, you'll rest easy knowing that you won't lose eCommerce sales and product changes when you restore to a historical point. Those changes are then "replayed" on top of the backup.…

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#316: Chattin’ Pens with Adam Kuhn 31:03

4 years ago31:03

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Adam Created this brand new intro video animation for CodePen Radio (on TV). Like when we do a video instead of audio for the podcast. We got to get into his creative process a little bit. While the output of this was a video, Adam used web technology to produce it, using animation libraries like David Desandro's Zdog (David also worked on the CodePen logo) and Greensock . But you won't find those libraries on the final Pen, because to preserve animation performance, those were used only to produce a GIF used as a mask over the TV and static. Sometimes you need to get tricky to produce the final product! Sponsor: Jetpack Boost Jetpack Boost is a plugin (separate from the core Jetpack plugin) that does three (for now) huge performance things for your site. 1) Lazy load images 2) Defer JavaScript 3) Critical CSS. All of those are really great things for web performance, and you essentially just flip them on with a switch. Critical CSS in particular is a rather difficult thing to implement by hand.…

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#315: Support Success 34:21

4 years ago34:21

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Over the last year, almost every metric that you want to go up has gone up at CodePen. More users creating and doing more things. You'd think that customer support would go up at the same level. And if it did, we would have thought that was very normal and dealt with it. But customer support doesn't have to be this static thing that just is the way it is forever. If you find that people have the same questions over and over, you can fix your app or documentation such to answer that question better. If people report bugs, you can fix them. In fact, if you do a lot of those things, you can reduce customer support even as the number of customers you support grows. That's exactly what we did at CodePen. The result is that our customer support went from a job nearly impossible to get all done in a day, or the point where it is a part-time endeavor for whoever is on support that day. Even while our time-to-respond to tickets has also dramatically dropped. We're just over one hour right now, and of course hope to drop below that line. The truth is though, most tickets are half that, it's just some tickets that slip between the cracks and take days that hurt our average. Timejumps Sponsor: Headless Commerce Summit Netlify is throwing a totally free online conference: Headless Commerce Summit. E-commerce is growing at an unprecedented rate, making everything from your site performance to your ability to iterate faster a critical business advantage. Take have a day and go! Even if you aren't currently literally building a headless site, it would be good to have in your brain how other people are doing it and what they are getting out of it.…

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#314: Team Updates 26:39

4 years ago26:39

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Marie and Chris discuss the big round of updates that went out around Team Management . There is a new "admin" role that it took us years of having a Teams product to understand that many teams could actually use. In the end, these updates to how Teams work make them way more useful. Teams can self-manage themselves in a way they never could before, and we're hoping that makes people much happier with the product, less likely to leave because of something silly like access controls, and reduce support. Timejumps Sponsor: Jetpack Backup + WooCommerce Aside from Jetpack Backup just being really easy to use and the most trustworthy way to back up your entire WordPress site, it's the only backup solution that works with eCommerce (WooCommerce) in the way you really need it to. Say you need to rollback to a version of your site from 4 days ago because something bad happened that hosed the site. Rolling back is a good idea, that'll get you up and running right away, but when you revert a database back 4 days, that could wipe out all the eCommerce orders and product changes that have happened in that time: not good. Not with Jetpack Backup, it will restore to 4 days ago, but then replay all the orders and product changes, so your store is up to date with reality. Vital.…

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#313: Conflict 42:27

4 years ago42:27

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Being, ya know, human beings with thoughts and emotions trying to build something together, sometimes we clash. There are big clashes. Sometimes those end in drastic changes. We've done that. You might have noticed that we're down to two co-founders actively at the company. There are tiny clashes too, like needing to tell someone when they've made a mistake. Medium clashes (this is not a real classification by the way, it's just how it feels) are when multiple people feel pretty strongly about something and are not in alignment. It's not much of a clash if one person is at a 3 and the other is at a 9 on the care-o-meter. When you're both 10's, it's a clash of conflict. That happens to us sometimes (again, humans). The tricky part is that conflict resolution is never straightforward. If someone feels strongly that the direction should be A, another feels the direction should be B, sometimes the solution is C for compromise. But sometimes compromise weakens a vision, and resolution needs to be A or B so that the vision itself isn't weakened. Are we experts in this? Far from it. Have we thought about it a lot? Ages. Do we have a long way to go in getting better at this? Sure do. The fact that we all still have extremely different temperaments for conflict at all is part of what makes it hard. Timestamps Sponsor: Netlify It's worth reading up on Netlify's new concept of Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR) and how that works with On-demand builders. It might just make your existing Jamstack builds way faster and better, or make possible the Jamstack for something you thought could never be.…

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#312: What is CodePen? 32:55

4 years ago32:55

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This isn't actually a podcast actually talking about what CodePen is. Well, it kinda is. But actually it's Stephen and Chris talking about and planning for what they would say if they only had five minutes (or so) to explain what CodePen is. So we need to hash out what the most important things are, what to lede with, and how to cover all the most vital things with clarity in such a short amount of time. We'll have to get around to actually trying to shoot a video like this soon! Timestamps Sponsor: Jetpack Boost Jetpack Boost is a brand spankin' new plugin from the Jetpack / Automattic gang. Jetpack has some very powerful performance features it offers, like giving you a global CDN for your images and core-WordPress-specific CSS and JavaScript. That particular feature is still a part of the Jetpack core plugin, but many performance-specific features are moving their way over to Jetpack Boost. Like Lazy Image loading (a huge performance win) is now in Jetpack Boost and you can turn it on with the flip of a switch. The most amazing, and brand new, feature of Jetpack Boost is that it does Critical CSS handling for you, which is also a big performance win and very difficult to do by hand.…

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#311: Event Tracking & Appcues 34:39

4 years ago34:39

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Marie & Chris talk about the brand new event tracking feature in Appcues . We're still pretty stoked we can even afford Appcues, since it's super pricey software for our company. The fact that they just released event tracking dashboards makes it feel much more affordable though, because this unlocks super valuable information for us instantly. It's like we get what would get by also buying super expensive analytics software, only it's rolled into what we already pay for. Sponsor: Netlify High five to Netlify for the sponsorship. This is a tiny part of Netlify, but just think about how cool Netlify Drop is. For all sorts of people, but particularly for beginners and teachers, this little feature makes the web feel real . Imagine you take a quick class learning HTML and CSS, and make a "fake" site on your local computer. That might feel kinda neat, but then you drop it on Netlify Drop, and it becomes an honest-to-god real website on the internet that anyone in the world can see. That's big. Timejumps…

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#310: Front-End Monorepo 36:01

4 years ago36:01

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We talked about our transition to a monorepo back in episode 305 . This move has all sorts of advantages for us, like the simplicity of having a single repo to pull and be up to date with and linting/formatting code in a consistent way across the entire code base of CodePen. This time we'll get into more of the repercussions of the monorepo from a front-end perspective. For example, since a bit part of the point of the monorepo is sharing code across areas of the site, it made sense to yoink out things that are intentionally sharable into top-level folders. For example, we pulled out our component library that way, then had to figure out how best to consume those components across different areas (e.g. how Next.js consumes those components is different than how our Rails app does. We also pulled out things like common utilities, icons, and shared styles, each of them having their own little journey on getting to work just how we wanted them to. Timestamps Sponsor: Jetpack Jetpack is celebrating it's 10th year! Jetpack does a lot, from major search improvements, full site backup, social media integration, speed boosts, and security measures. Take a look at some of those statistics on their landing page. They are really helping WordPress site owners make their sites better and the web writ large.…

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#309: Elasticsearch 42:18

4 years ago42:18

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Dee, Chris, and Alex talk all about the technology of Elasticsearch . That's a link to the company itself right there, which is relevant as we use them directly to host our production Elasticsearch. We use it for (wait for it): search. But interestingly enough, that's not all. Elasticsearch is just a data store that can be useful for all sorts of other things. But before we get to that, we explain the technology and some of the problems we've had along the way that we're still on a journey to entirely smooth out. Timestamps…

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#308: User Testing 30:45

4 years ago30:45

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In this episode, Klare and Chris talk about speaking to users directly about CodePen to get their feedback and as much other intel as we can in the spirit of making CodePen better and validating some ideas for future features. Timejumps Sponsor: Netlify We had a question come in over on ShopTalk Show from a user who wanted to know what the advantage of Netlify was over putting static files in an Amazon S3 bucket with CloudFront in front of it. That was an interesting framing of the question because at first glance, because maybe in looking at the final site, it's not that different. But how do you deploy it? How do you do cache-breaking? How does version control fit into the story? What handles your forms? How much does it cost? The Netlify answer to all those is very satisfying, and the roll-your-own answer to all those is: 😬.…

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#307: We’re Hiring a Gopher 33:50

4 years ago33:50

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A Go-person? A Golanger? A person who's good at Go, anyway. That's who we'd like to hire at CodePen, at the senior level. In this podcast, we chat about how we're thinking about this new role, why Go has been so important to us so far, and what we hope to do with it. We thought it might be helpful for you, potential hires out there, to hear about how we're thinking about all this and get to know exactly the people you'd be working with. Timestamps Sponsor: Linode Simplify your infrastructure and cut your cloud bills in half with Linode’s Linux virtual machines. Develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Whether you’re developing a personal project or managing larger workloads, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of CodePen Radio. You can find all the details at linode.com/codepen . Linode has data centers around the world with the same simple and consistent pricing regardless of location. Choose the data center nearest to you. You also receive 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. You can choose shared and dedicated compute instances or you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. If it runs on Linux, it runs on Linode. Visit linode.com/codepen and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.…

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#306: The Views of CodePen 23:02

4 years ago23:02