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🎧 Podcast

096: Upgrading Rails

Show Description We’re joined by Joshua Wood from Upgrade Rails and Honey Badger to talk about hiring a consultant to take care of upgrading CodePen’s Rails rather than doing it ourselves. Show Sponsor CodePen PRO Show Links UpgradeRails.com Honey Badger @Joshuap Joshua on Github Ruby Weekly Hint.io Pusher CodePen Radio: #95 React

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
🎧 Podcast

095: React

Show Description I Heard React Is Good. We’re talking about a new project we’re working on and how we decided to jump in and use React to build it. Rachel, Alex, Tim Holman, and Chris get together to share their path of learning about React. Show Sponsor Media Temple is a web hosting company. Even […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
📝 Blog Post

CodePen Enhancement Suite

Alex Zaworski has the CodePen Enhancement Suite: A Chrome extension meant to enhance the CodePen experience. It adds a variety of functionality and optional aesthetic changes to the site. For example, a nice UI for creating your own syntax highlighting theme. Check out the images and GIFs in the repo’s README for the complete feature […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
📝 Blog Post

SitePoint: 10 Cool Things You Can Do with CodePen and JavaScript

Head on over there to read my article, that covers, you guessed it, 10 cool things you can do with JavaScript on CodePen. No joke: we hear from people all the time who are just learning of features we’ve offered on CodePen for years. CodePen is a big complicated app and there will always be […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
📝 Blog Post

The Great Suspender

I recently learned about a Chrome Extension that CodePen peeps might get some good use out of. It’s called The Great Suspender. The idea: Automatically suspends unused tabs to free up system resources. After a tab goes unused for a while, it gets replaced with this: Which you click to go back to what that […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
🎧 Podcast

094: Employees

Show Description We’re answering a listener question: What has changed for the 3 founders since adding employees to CodePen? How do we divide up the labor? Plus a really interesting discussion about the extra stresses involved of having employees. Show Sponsor CodePen PRO – Unlock the full power of CodePen

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Chris Coyier
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