Have you noticed the Daily UI Pens popping up in the Picks lately? They’re inspired by Daily UI, an email-a-day challenge for designers to create UI elements — landing pages, forms of all kinds, 404 pages, and a whole lot more. I first noticed these popping up in Recent Pens near the end of last […]

So much to blog. So little time. Here’s five things from my notebook that I’ve been meaning to blog and so today I’m gonna do it, dangnabbit. nvite Design Community It’s very cool to be among these other companies in the nvite Design Community. We use the nvite system for RSVP and event management for […]

This has been out a few weeks now, but I wanted to give a little special attention to the improvements that we rolled out for commenting code with keyboard shortcuts. It’s likely no surprise to you, but code comments are different depending on what language you are in. <h1> <!– I’m commented. –> I’m not […]

Show Description In this show we talk about Amazon Spot Instances. The story story: they are Amazon servers with their own little economy. You bid on them, like you would at auction. There is no guarantee you’ll get to keep the server. Get outbid, and it’ll spin down. It’s based on the empty server space […]

Rachel was just on Jonathan Cutrell’s Developer Tea. Episode: Part One: Interview with Rachel Smith And now part 2!

Jake works here at CodePen. He said to me recently that it’s nice he’s doing a lot of backend work right now, because then when he gets a chance to create some Pens, the front end stuff is a refreshing change of pace. It sure must be! Jake has been exploding with all kinds of […]

We’ve long had GitHub login for CodePen. If you’re logged into GitHub (as many of us are all day), it’s just a single click to log in to CodePen. Now the same is true for Twitter or Facebook! (docs) Perhaps you’ve seen our new Log In page with the options: You need to have a […]

Show Description Tim Holman took the lead on building out CodePen Console, so he’s on to talk about it. There are lots of good reasons why we have our own console even though the browser has (an undoubtedly more powerful) console in the DevTools. We’ll talk about why that is, and how it’s not just […]

I’m a friend of Ashe Dryden and a fan of her work on improving he tech industry. So I’m happy to say we’ve sponsored one of the AlterConf conferences that she puts on. The Minneapolis, MN conference, specifically, which is coming up Saturday, April 9 2016 – 11:00am to 4:00pm. About the conference: AlterConf provides […]

A few years ago we dug up some data on preprocessor usage on CodePen. That was then and this is now! Back then, we hadn’t yet hit 1,000,000 Pens, and we have over 6 million now, so it’s much more statistically relevant. Here’s the data as of about the end of 2015. HTML Preprocessor Usage […]