Quill is a very nice open source web-based text editor. Over 9,000 GitHub stars! Open up the playground and it shows you exactly how to initialize a new editor (with an example set of parameters), and the live output. So perfect, right? That’s the best way to demo a lib. And would you look at […]

Show Description We’re chatting with Josh and Ben from Honeybadger, a service for tracking errors in a web app. We use Honeybadger here at CodePen and find it extremely valuable. We also worked with Josh on upgrading Rails here at CodePen. We talk about the decisions they’ve made along the way, how they’re similar to […]

Siamak Mokhtari’s Panda is a pretty fun and colorful light-on-dark theme. He went to the trouble of making it work with CodeMirror so we did all the tweaks and stuff we needed to do to get it working on CodePen. You’ll find it in our split theme choice area in your Settings: Select it and […]

Show Description We’re chatting with Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier (“Zapier makes you happier”), about Zapier’s origin story, their fundraising experience, growing with your customers, dealing with user churn, marketing to new users as well as existing users about features they may have forgotten about, and how Zapier manages customer support issues. Show Links Part […]

There are CodePen Meetups all around the world. You can host one! We’ll support you the best we can. But ultimately you’re the host. You can choose any format you like for your meetup. The most common format is Show & Tell and this post is for our hosts (and potential hosts) who are interested […]

One of my favorite things about CodePen is the creativity that comes out when people create generative art, it seems only fitting that we post a homage to the infamous 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 The little 1 line of Commodore 64 Basic code, lays out a beautiful generative maze, and the people of […]

Show Description This is part 3 in a mini-series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. We’re chatting with Brandon Kelly and Brad Bell from Pixel and Tonic, the company behind CraftCMS. CraftCMS is a powerful CMS for building a bring-your-own-HTML website. We talk about things like the […]

Sometimes you just can’t remember what exactly an external asset is. Or is that just me? Either way, there is now a little icon you can press to jump right to that asset to check it out. Here’s a GIF showing the new icon and how it works: Animated GIF showing the “view” icon in […]

The cover of the Joy Division album “Unknown Pleasures” is an icon of early new wave. The rippling lines somehow feel both orderly and chaotic (like the music behind the cover). The image makes a great jumping off point for a Pen, and the CodePen community came up with mesmerizing variations on the theme. Here […]

CodePen now has access to the amazing ZingChart JavaScript charting library! Our friends at ZingChart have made it possible to include ZingChart in any Pen. They’ve also given us a license that unlocks the full power of ZingChart for any Pen. Check out these awesome Pens built with their library! “The Bay Area – divided by […]