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We just recently published the 300th CodePen Spark. Marie joins me on the show, as she leads up the creation of the vast majority of Spark newsletters. We get into things like why we do it, how we create it, how we send it, and things we've learned along the way sending a newsletter of this magnitude. We have some interesting failsafe procedures in place. Plus we get into some of the analytic numbers behind what we're doing. Here's to another upcoming many hundred more!
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Riccardo Zanutta’s “Animations & Cool Effects”: https://codepen.io/collection/XgZLNA (started in 2014!)AndyMan’s “Patterns, filled space”: https://codepen.io/collection/XBLxoeEric Karkovack’s “ASCII Artwork”: https://codepen.io/collection/MgaYzZJhey Tompkins’ “Speedy CSS Tips”: https://codepen.io/collection/bNWWdOPeter Norton’s “3D CSS”: https://codepen.io/collection/GoZQxGBramus’ “Scroll Linked Animations”: https://codepen.io/collection/xKzjpo
Marie and I jump on the show to tell y'all we're taking a little break! It feels like years since we've been eluding to the fact that we're working on a new major upgrade to CodePen. Rather than keep dancing around it, we're going to minimize or remove working on anything that isn't working on...
Published 02/08/23
There was a small problem in our database. Some JSON data we kept in a column would sometimes have a string instead of an integer. Like {"tabSize": "5"} instead of {"tabSize": 5} of the like. Investigation on how that happened was just silly stuff like not calling parseInt on a value as it came...
Published 02/01/23