CodePen
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CodePen is a silo for hosting HTML, CSS and JavaScript snippets to demonstrate the capabilities of the client-side Web.
Features
- Profile
- rel-me linking to multiple other sites! E.g. https://codepen.io/adactio
Criticism
Depends on AWS
(though thatβs true for many sites)
- Criticism: depends on AWS (and thus vulnerable to their outages) https://twitter.com/AndreJaenisch/status/1331901136245305345
- "Imagine CodePen going down.
Or Amazon having yet another outage *cough
You are stuck.
If you have different domains hosting code, the whole system becomes more resilient to failures (the original motivation behind the Internet)." @AndreJaenisch November 26, 2020
- "Imagine CodePen going down.