445: CodePen AI is Here
Chris and Alex are talking this week about CodePen's biggest release since the 2.0 drop. It's live! We'll be working on CodePen AI forever,...
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444: A Gosh-Dang Full-Blown Read/Write API
Marie and Chris are on the podcast to talk about our very new v2 API. This baby (slaps the hood) can do it all. It's complete read/write acc...
443: Image Hosting is Quite Powerful on CodePen
We've made several upgrades to uploading/hosting images on CodePen lately. One change, moving to the open-source file-uploading library Uppy...
442: Pens are Actually Websites
Stephen and Chris jump on the podcast to talk about our (ahem, super cool) deployment feature. Any Pen can be a website! Well, they kinda ar...
441: Challenges For We, Challenges For Thee
Marie and Chris talk about CodePen Challenges. We've been at it for many years! We get into the technology behind it, how we build our own C...
440: Hey! Hi! Right here! In-App Notifications That Like You
Rach and Chris jump on the podcast to talk about the brand-new in-app notification system we built and shipped. We're actively trying to bal...
439: Dragging! Drag Everything!
Stephen just implemented a great UI feature for the 2.0 editor where all the Panels that were previously stuck to the left side of the page...
438: Are Diffusion Models Better Than LLMs at Web Design?
Chris has Jacob Miller on the show, who is building a tool called DiffUI. The big idea is that it uses a diffusion model to do prompt-to-web...
437: The Cheese. It Has Been Moved.
Stephen and Chris hop on to talk about the couple of weeks post 2.0 launch. Things are certainly different in 2.0! Literally the location of...
436: The Design & Message of Launch Emails (with MJML)
Just one week off our big 2.0 launch, Shaw and Chris hop on to talk about how email is actually a big part of the launch. Social media ain't...
435: The 2.0 Launch & Team CodePen’s Favorite Features
The whole team is here! That's a first for us. Today we're launching 2.0, so we're having a little fun in this episode picking out our favor...
434: Still Proudly on WordPress for our Blog, Podcast, and Documentation
Marie and Chris hop on CodePen Radio for a little chat on how we're still happily using WordPress for a variety of things here on CodePen. W...
433: CodePen 2.0 is Backward Compatible with Any Classic Pen or Project
When we set out to build the 2.0 editor, another editor in the CodePen cannon, the goal was actually to reduce the number of editors we have...
432: Trends of 2026 (So Far)
Marie has her eye on what seems to be super popular with CodePen users so far this year. Galleries (in different directions) https://codepen...
431: Versions are Deeply Integrated into CodePen
Rachel and Chris on the podcast this week discussion the (ahem, rather large news) that every CodePen 2.0 Pen is versioned. That's right, yo...
430: The Wild World of Keyboard Shortcuts in Web Apps
Shaw and Chris talk about how the keyboard shortcut situation is challenging, but in the best shape it's ever been in for our 2.0 editor. Be...
429: Why CodePen Rebuilt Its Realtime Service
We've had realtime features on CodePen for ages. Back when it was pretty damn hard. Our Collab Mode is an obvious one, where users can code...
428: Improving The Entire Billing System (is Very Worth It)
Rachel and Chris on the show this week to discuss a series of big changes over the last, say, six months or so with our billing system. We'v...
427: Next.js and The Journey of SSR
Having that first response from the server to users browsers be, ya know, full of good, useful, renderable HTML is certainly better than an...
426: Browserslist in CodePen 2.0
Stephen and Chris chat about how the 2.0 editor (well, the compiler really) understands and supports Browserslist, a config format that live...