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 certain buttons is in a new place, and that requires folks to poke around a bit and figure it out. Some people just do that and it’s a non-issue. Some […]

There was a fun little debate about color themes and UI/UX. There is some solid logic to having three states for a color theme toggle: Meaning: That’s what we have in the 2.0 editor. Lea Verou presents a full-throated argument that color theme toggles should be two-state, not three-state. If you switch to the opposite, […]

Gradients can look super different depending on what color space you have them interpolate in. It’s sRGB by default, and there is a decent chance you’ve never even thought about it. But it’s a small syntax change to change that, as Keith Grant documents. One of those is not better than the other. Maybe it’s […]

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 what it used to be, and not everybody is on your app every single day waiting for a notification. Sponsor: Notion With the recent launch of […]

Maybe I’m just old (coughs dust), but if you can make a click do something in HTML and CSS alone, it always feels cool and fancy to me. Even just “click to go to another page”, the foundation of the web, is cool and fancy. And if it happens to go to a same-domain URL, […]

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 favorite features. Time Jumps Links Plus a bonus appearance here of Marie’s victory graphic.

If you sense a joyous exhale, that’s Team CodePen in crossing this launch milestone for the most ambitious professional project any of us has ever achieved. Today, we declare CodePen 2.0 officially launched. We do it, naturally, for you, as we set out to rebuild our online editor to better support what today’s developers want […]

I like how Alan questions something nearly all of us take for granted: What if We Used Proportional Fonts for Code Blocks? And he kinda leaves it at that. What if. Lots of text is almost certainly easier to read in a non-monospace font, but is lots of code easier to read? And spaces/tabs are […]

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. We’ve got it hosted on a subdomain and on a different (WordPress-specific) hosting plan than our main monorepo, so it has its own deployment process and such. We use […]

I still think about the juicy condemnation of the design industry in Edwin Heathcote’s Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. In the heroic era of design, from the early to mid-20th century, it became a kind of cliché to put a claim on everything. Every single thing on Earth not produced by nature […]