Wahoo! Autocomplete is here! This is something we’ve wanted to add for quite some time and we’re excited to finally make it happen. Autocomplete saves you keystrokes by helping to automatically fill in things like HTML attributes, CSS properties, and JavaScript functions. To trigger autocomplete, use the key command ctrl + space Complete those HTML […]

The CodePen community has the Olympic spirit, and we’re going for front-end gold! Check out some of my favorite Pens from the 2016 Olympic season so far. Steve Gardner’s “Olympic Rings” See the Pen Olympic Rings by Steve Gardner (@steveg3003) on CodePen. “Binary Olympic Rings” by Adam See the Pen Binary Olympic Rings by Adam […]

Show Notes This show kicks off what hopefully will be a 10-part mini series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. Some of them will be freemium SaaS (Software as a Service) like us, and some will be more tangentially related. Some will be bigger than us (probably […]

Our own Tim Holman wrote a wonderful article for the most recent net magazine. We’re web nerds all the way around here, but OMG does that spread look good in print. 😍 It’s all about some of the hidden gems 🔍 in CodePen.

I love a good spiral Pen, and the CodePen community’s come up with some great ones over the past few weeks! Here are a handful of my recent favorites. Matei Copot’s “Binary spiral” See the Pen Binary spiral by Matei Copot (@towc) on CodePen. Ragnar Þór Valgeirsson’s “Spiral” See the Pen Spiral by Ragnar Þór […]

We’re all excited to see CodePen on Daniel Shiffman’s YouTube channel Coding Rainbow! In this episode Daniel shows how to set up p5.js in CodePen and experiments with Professor Mode. The CodePen tutorial starts at 16:14, but the whole episode is fun! 🌈

Open the menu in the HTML editor and you’ll see an option for “Analyze HTML”. While we were in there tweaking the rules to be more helpful, we added a new feature that we didn’t have before. It will now warn you if you use a class in your HTML that you haven’t defined anywhere […]

Show Description In this episode we talk about some of the biggest Pens of all time on CodePen. Most of them were not only just popular right on CodePen itself, but went viral and reached far beyond CodePen itself. Wanna make one of these super-popular Pens yourself? Listen and find out what “Marie’s Law” is […]

It’s always interesting to see the tools developers build to help them do exactly the things they need to do. CodePen, despite the fact that we don’t really have an true “API”, has spawned a number of such tools. Here’s some of the ones on GitHub. pen-case jhey tompkins created “a local development boilerplate set […]

This weekend’s shaping up to be a hot one all over the northern hemisphere. It’s perfect ice cream weather, wouldn’t you say? The CodePen community’s got something on the truck for everybody! Take your pick of perfect popsicles from Mikhail Korotkov’s “cant get enough icecream in pure css3” See the Pen cant get enough icecream […]