It warms my old heart to hear Jason Santa Maria wax poetic about modern CSS: CSS has exploded! Flexbox, grid, many kinds of viewport units, variables, and on and on. So many things we used to patch in to extend CSS or turn to Javascript for are now just part of the spec. The ease […]

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, since it’s a fast-changing technology that regularly adds new abilities. That sounds like a trite thing to say, but we lived it as we were building this. We started out playing […]

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 access to all your Pens, Collections, and Assets. This API isn’t hamstrung by anything, so the door is open to whatever you want to build. We’ve already seen […]

We’ve made several upgrades to uploading/hosting images on CodePen lately. One change, moving to the open-source file-uploading library Uppy, was driven by business concerns. But the benefits are good for everyone: uploads are faster, and the money we saved let us increase file size limits and total storage limits on the higher PRO plans. Plus, […]

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 are already, but you know what I mean. If you’re a PRO user all you do is click a button and the Pen is instantly deployed at a *.codepen.app website. […]

Choosing beautiful and unusual fonts and implementing them in visually compelling ways is certainly a way to stand out in this period of so many websites looking same-y. I figure it’s a good week to send some sweet typography links I’ve saved (in the form of screenshots): Notable to me: Apple has a dedicated icons […]

Dave Rupert has a new syntax highlighter: MicroLighter. He wrote about the why. There are a bunch of trade-offs with all the technologies that do this job. The trade-offs here seem pretty worth it for a relatively lightweight, infrequent syntax highlighting job. I mean 2 KB as a base library is pretty amazing, with the […]

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 CMS for it that powers the website and the emails that get sent about it. We also cover why they can be so beneficial for everyone involved. Time Jumps

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 balance a system that isn’t annoying, but allows us to show targetting information to targetted users when we think that’s valuable for both you and us. It started with “We launched 2.0!” […]

Very cool that random() in CSS is coming to Chrome to join Safari who led that feature. It means one of my favorite demos I’ve made when I was first playing with it will work for more people. I just like how little code it is and how it combines some fun modern CSS features. […]