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#242: Collections

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Stephen and Marie are on the show to talk about recent updates and improvements to the Collections feature on CodePen.

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  • 00:36 New feature release
  • 05:24 What's new in Collections?
  • 12:29 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 14:53 What tech was used to build this?
  • 18:33 The first state machine on CodePen

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#241: CTO

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Chris talks with Alex about his role as CTO at CodePen and what he sees as his job, how to learn from mistakes, and ways to level up as a developer.

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  • 03:48 Why the need for a CTO?
  • 11:58 Sponsor: Stackbit
  • 12:37 Building developer happiness
  • 15:19 Why don't we just build a feature and slap it out there?
  • 18:43 Learning from mistakes and issues
  • 30:26 How to level up as a developer

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On top of that, Stackbit just released custom themes.

Use the link stackbit.com/codepen, feel the magic, and let us know what you think.

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#240: Customer Research

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Chris and Marie talk about how CodePen's style and methods of customer research have changed over the years, and how it's been helping influence the decisions made about features at CodePen.

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  • 02:28 Validating hunches and throwing them away
  • 07:11 Early customer research
  • 18:32 Sponsor: Instant Domains
  • 19:10 Deciding on when to go ahead with an idea
  • 25:35 Be careful of the mud

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#239: Our Current Stack

Rachel and Chris go on a tour through tech town to talk about CodePen's current stack and how it has changed and morphed over the years.

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  • 01:04 Let's go into Tech Town and talk about our stack
  • 05:41 Redux regret town.
  • 11:42 Now we're in super hooks town
  • 12:54 Sponsor: Mux
  • 14:42 New stack town.
  • 18:48 Codesplitting town.
  • 25:44 Caching town.
  • 38:57 Alex is a Javascript magpie. In town.

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#236: Private by Default

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We've got a small feature update to talk about that's a big deal to some folks: private by default. For some people & teams, having everything private by default on CodePen is critical to their work. Chris & Marie talk about how we added this option and the steps we took to validate and notify users about the feature.

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  • 00:14 Topic introduction
  • 02:24 Adding a setting requires some thought
  • 05:41 Sponsor: Mux
  • 07:34 Privacy as a feature
  • 10:49 Validating an idea
  • 16:12 How do we notify people about new features?

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#235: Blocking

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Chris and Klare talk about the planning and process of building a blocking feature for CodePen.

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  • 00:27 Topic introduction
  • 01:03 Why did we build blocking in?
  • 08:31 Complicated UI decisions and planning
  • 15:46 Sponsor: Flywheel
  • 17:19 Planning out blocking
  • 26:11 Adding report as an option

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#234: React Grids

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Cassidy is on to talk about powering the grids on CodePen with React to make them faster and future feature friendly!

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  • 02:05 Updating the Instagram page
  • 07:51 Moving to a new stack as a team
  • 10:18 Speed improvements
  • 18:12 Sponsor: WooCommerce
  • 19:35 Future feature in the works

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#233: Export 2

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Stephen, Chris, and Marie are here to talk about the new export with build process! We get into how it was built, its limitations, and some improvements we made to our admin systems along the way.

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  • 00:26 Topic and guest intros
  • 07:53 How did we develop this feature?
  • 09:45 Why not a webpack bundle?
  • 14:28 Sponsor: Woocommerce
  • 15:49 Use cases for updated export tool
  • 18:39 Soft launching with user research
  • 20:21 Improving the feature flag system
  • 25:52 Project planning and marketing

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#232: Side Projects

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Cassidy and Marie are on this week to talk about side projects and how they can help you personally as well as professionally. Let us know what kind of side projects you're working on!

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  • 01:44 Spreadsheets!
  • 11:26 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 14:02 Spreading yourself too thin
  • 21:38 Making a course on a side project

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#231: Social

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Marie and Cassidy chat about how CodePen is using social media to communicate with our community.

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Sponsor: Netlify

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#230: Apollo

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What is Apollo and how does CodePen use it? Cassidy just returned from Apollo Day and is here to help educate us all about Apollo and how/why CodePen chose to use it.

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  • 00:46 What is Apollo Day?
  • 05:04 How does CodePen use Apollo?
  • 15:03 Sponsor: WooCommerce
  • 16:26 How do you not repeat yourself?
  • 25:41 Why is it called Apollo?

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229: Vulnerability

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Cassidy and Marie are talking vulnerability: at work, in software, and IN work ON software. What does vulnerability in work look like? And how putting yourself out there can be a great way to help you grow.

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  • 01:24 What does vulnerability in work look like?
  • 09:32 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 12:03 Do you need a perfect Github streak to work?
  • 15:07 People make themselves vulnerable on CodePen
  • 20:04 Putting yourself out there helps you grow
  • 22:24 Fighting spam to create a safe place to be vulnerable
  • 28:52 Asking for tech help when you need it.

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#228: 2019 Trends

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We're half way through 2019! Marie and Cassidy are here to talk about what's trending on CodePen so far and take a glimpse at the future for the rest of the year.

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18:41 .TECH domains

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#227: Tidying Up

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It's time to clean all the things! Cassidy and Marie talk about how CodePen is cleaning up code, internal docs, and external docs. How does your team do spring cleaning?

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#226: New Export

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Stephen talks with Marie about how we updated and improved our exporting function on CodePen and talks about a possible future Pro feature that could come from the changes we made.

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  • 01:35 What is exporting on CodePen?
  • 03:21 How did you improve the speed of export?
  • 09:27 Sponsor: Dot Tech
  • 10:17 Changing the structure of the export
  • 14:18 Export for talks and presentations
  • 17:51 What's next?
  • 20:42 Did you get to remove any jQuery?

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#225: Learning New Things

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Cassidy and Marie talk about their journey to keep learning new things, while also not stressing about trying to keep up with all the things in web development.

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  • 00:41 Topic introduction
  • 03:23 CodePen challenges
  • 05:23 Fork it!
  • 08:55 Learning at conferences
  • 13:22 Sponsor: Netlify
  • 15:18 Learning by reading vs watching
  • 19:09 The buffet of learning available now
  • 24:35 Life long learning in tech

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#224: Community Roundup

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Cassidy and Marie share some of the fun things CodePen community members are doing around the web including newsletters, Pass the Pen, JSConfEU, and Zdog.

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  • 00:54 Zdog
  • 05:05 Christina Gorton UI Design Course
  • 11:01 Sponsor: Discover.bot
  • 12:00 Taking time to mess around with things
  • 18:21 Andy Bell's newsletter
  • 22:20 JS Conf

Sponsor 11:01: Discover.bot

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#223: Streaming

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Cassidy and Marie are here to chat about livestreaming for developers. We get into how we've used live streaming to learn and share in the past and how CodePen is planning to use live streaming in the future on our new Twitch channel.

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  • 00:42 Topic introduction
  • 06:53 Pair programming
  • 13:26 Audience participation
  • 15:07 Sponsor: Discover.bot
  • 16:11 Why a company should consider live stream

Sponsor 15:07: Discover.bot

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