June 29th: Cats, Chai, and Cacti
CSS Trapper Keeper Effect
Lynn Fisher recreates the iconic Trapper Keeper look with a containing div around an image.
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The 4 Rocks from the Sun
"The 4 closest planets to the Sun. Sizes are approx to scale. Rotation speeds are not to scale for obvious reasons as Mercury and Venus take approx 58 and 242 Earth days to rotate. However rotation directions are correct." From Alan Hood.
#CodePenChallenge: Scrolling
We scrolled through the last week of the July GreenSock challenge! Check out the Pens from the challenge, including Shunya's whimsical scroll down to the bottom the sea.
3D Polaroid World
ilithya builds a world with walls like Polaroid pictures with Three.js. "I was inspired by a real 3D polaroid exhibition I saw in my city, and by the virtual gallery from CODAME where some of my shaders are being displayed".
Bookmark
Aaron Iker crafts a bookmark icon with a subtle flutter on click.
CodePen Radio #274: Golang
Alex joins Marie to talk about how CodePen is using the programming language Go. What is Go? Why does Alex call Go a non-magical language? And what improvements have we made by using Go?
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Turbo Kitty
Jhey built this adorable rocket cat during a Twitch stream! "From iPad to animated in a couple of hours with some stream chat thrown in there too."
Styled Color Input
Lee Martin transforms an HTML `color` input into a Pantone swatch with CSS.
Lil' Me
Cassie Evans' SVG avatar follows the cursor around the page with a smile (and a little easter egg on blur).
Chai N Samosa
RustyCodersk pays tribute to one of the world's greatest snack combos with CSS.
Animated Cards
The VVaFFle shares a time lapse video of how this set of animated cards were created with React and SCSS.
CSS Plants
Poulami Chakraborty grows a lovely shelf garden of cacti with CSS!