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☟ Click-to-Play Embeds As an option, we now offer Embedded Pens in a preview state. It looks like this: Why use it? Previews are lightweight. Yay performance! Previews are benign. Anything that might happen in an Embed will only happen after it is explicitly run (i.e. make sound). ☺ Best Pen of the Month There are three fun and interesting community-launched creative challenges going on in CodePen-land. The Pens these challenges inspired are eye poppingly good! CodeVember is a bit like NaNoWriMo. The idea is "30 Days, 30 Creative experiments". Anything goes! Get those creative juices flowing. The TenLines Challenge: What can you do with just 10 CSS properties and the given set of 10 HTML elements? CSSHaiku is more restrictive with CSS (only 3 properties) but any markup is fair game.     Topping all categories! Yuzmeister's Pen, "Particle Links",  got the nod for all 3 categories! Check out our exclusive interview with the "Thieveng Dev" in the next issue! Yuzmeister's Pen, "Particle Links",  got the nod for all 3 categories! Check out our exclusive interview with the "Thieveng Dev" in the next issue! More New Stuff We added RSS feeds for collections. And, we're cooking up another new thing for collections — stay tuned! Dave DeSandro made a much-requested tweak to editor resizing, not to mention the layouts now instantly change. Full Page View now has a more full-featured header, meaning you can heart the Pen, fork it, see the title and creator, switch back to other views, etc. So Much Talent ❤ Some Pens that have been dropping jaws around the CodePen office: jagarikin's "Garuda", a soaring bird of fire Noah Blon's dynamic image colorizing. nsayenko's beautiful "particles snow" with particle.js Nikolay Talanov's skewed one-page scroll Speaking of amazing Pens, did you see Georgiana Blantin's CSS background change on scroll? Now you can read her personal story about how the development community helped her grow as a developer. We love this quote: "[P]ut yourselves out there. Don’t doubt, don’t be shy, don’t second-guess, don’t give up. Ask questions, ask for help, reach out, and you’ll find people reaching back." The Job Board Our Job Board is cool because it can both help you find a job, or help you hire the help you need at your current job. If you're looking for a new job, come check out opportunities from: Senior Front End Developer IBM Design Front End Developer Happy Medium Front End Designer at WaterFurnace Software Engineer at Clock and many more! Until next time, Welcome to the team Tim Holman and Jake Albaugh! Stay tuned to our CodePen Radio podcast where we'll speak with both of them soon. You're receiving this email because you are a member of CodePen. You can instantly opt out any time.