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📝 Blog Post

Built for CodePen

There has been a number of pretty cool things built out there on the ol’ internet just for CodePen lately. I thought we could showcase several of them. CodePencil (for Windows Phone) Johannes Jakob created a fan app for browsing CodePen on a Windows Phone. CodePen OmniSearch Patrick Hart created a Google Chrome Extension called […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
🎧 Podcast

037: Health

This week, we’re talking about how we stay healthy at CodePen. 1:09 We’re tech workers. We stare at computer monitors all day. Our default state is “not moving”. We care about our health here at CodePen, so we try to be aware of certain things that affect our health, including diet, activity and exercise, and […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
📝 Blog Post

Asset Getting Blocked by Corporate Firewalls

I say “corporate” firewall, because a few weeks ago we were getting quite a few emails from people saying that CodePen didn’t work on their computers at work (usually CodePen worked fine for them at home). There was a JavaScript error in the console, and essentially the editor wouldn’t load fully and was totally non-functional. […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
📝 Blog Post

MaterialUp

MaterialUp is a showcase site for examples of material design, the design language put forth by Google. There are lots of examples of material design here on CodePen. Here’s a collection of my own. Searching brings up quite a bit too. When you’re browsing MaterialUp, the examples they feature that are from CodePen feature a […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
📝 Blog Post

Proper Stylus Support

We used to kinda “fake” Stylus support around here. We offered it as a preprocessor and it worked great that way, but the syntax highlighting for it wasn’t quite right. The indentation behavior wasn’t quite right. And one thing that people noticed a lot, was that Emmet didn’t work quite right in that mode either. […]

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Chris Coyier
Co-Founder