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The CodePen team talk about the ins and outs of running a web software business.
Marie and Chris jump on to discuss some of the trends of what people are building on CodePen here, approximately halfway through 2025.
New CSS!
Custom @functions (just landed)
if() function
clip-path & shape()
corner-shape and the superellipse
Scrolling stuff
The attr() power up
Hot Styles
Liquid glass (Jhey's demo, Spark)
Hard glitch (CRT-like effect with VFX-JS, Glitchy button hover effect with VFX-JS, ❍ Cinematic Glitch Slideshow)
Holographics (CSS Holographic Masks)
Grainy textures (Grainy distorted interactive 1 gradient blobs)
Innovative blurs (wavy wobbly lava orb, Bubbles Background Animation)
New color spaces (OKLCH Swatch Example, CSS Color Functions, CSS oklch Gradation)
Hot Pens
Petr Knoll’s Glass Button (From February, well ahead of liquid glass)
Mike Bespalov’s Monospace ASCII art generator (known to be “vibe coded”)
Adam Kuhn’s Severance Lumon Macrodata Refinement
Steve Gardner’s “Who Needs Shaders”
Time Jumps
CodePen Radio
The CodePen team talk about the ins and outs of running a web software business.
