The JS Bin Blog

• 31-Jan, 2018 The Return and The Refactor

  Hello there dear reader. Remember me? 😃 It’s been almost 2 years since the last blog post and I can imagine it has felt like JS Bin has been the same for a little while now.   Read post

• 4-Jul, 2015 Live reloading CSS

  Due to a few recent optimisations in the JS Bin rendering logic, we now have live reloading CSS in the editor.   Read post

• 21-Jun, 2015 SSL now available to all

  As the web moves towards using HTTPS everywhere, JS Bin has moved SSL from being a “pro only” feature to making it available to everyone as of today.   Read post

• 16-Jun, 2015 A change to the way our URLs work

  We’ve just landed a change to the way JS Bin URLs work, and though the new way aims to be intuitive and backward compatible, some of you sharp sighted users might have spotted the change already and wondering what changed and why.   Read post

• 4-Feb, 2015 Asset uploads & oEmbed

  We said we’d be working on more pro features, and we are. Also, since we’re open source, this awesome stuff happens from time to time: oEmbed as a community submitted feature.   Read post

• 8-Aug, 2014 Protecting you from yourself

  JS Bin has recently had some subtle changes that help protect you from bugs in your own code.   Read post

• 24-Jul, 2014 Announcements: Pro & Processors

  The last few weeks we’ve all been busy on that last stretch of work, that last 5% of work that always eeks itself out to be longer than you expect.   Read post

• 9-Jul, 2014 TWDTW #11: A week of security

  This last week has had a particularly strong focus on security. Some of these changes might also have a direct impact on the way you use JS Bin.   Read post

• 20-Jun, 2014 TWDTW #10: JSHint, line highlighting and update on pro

  Today we pushed a fairly hefty release containing a few PRs to update libraries, but also a few extra features for all our users.   Read post

• 17-Jun, 2014 New processors. We need your input

  We’re doing the final testing on our new processor code. Sass and SCSS have been in high demand for a long time (#176), which has driven this rewrite (#1229).   Read post

• 9-Jun, 2014 TWDTW #9: Tweaks and maintenance

  These past three weeks we have been mainly working on bug fixes and internal maintenance, so no big announcement except that we have released to 100% of our users the settings and preferences pages. Go and have fun with it!   Read post

• 15-May, 2014 TWDTW #8: SVG support and settings live

  With Giulia back from holiday and Remy easing back into work, the Left Logic offices have been a bit more lively, and pushing a few more bits to production.   Read post

• 9-May, 2014 How I run JS Bin in Zen mode!

  Since using JS Bin, I’ve discovered a number of ways to customise it to my liking, and I wanted to share how I’m running in Zen mode!   Read post

• 2-May, 2014 TWDTW #7: SCSS, Compass and search

  Whilst Fabien continues with Pro user integration and Giulia goes on holiday, I’ve snuck out of paternity leave and cheekily completed a bit of dev.   Read post

• 25-Apr, 2014 TWDTW #6: Bin files, Dropbox, Pro Accounts

  This week we’ve been doing mostly internal updates to JS Bin, so not much to see. I’ve been working on updating the way in which we create HTML files from bins and we’re going to start experimenting with two-way syncing with Dropbox   Read post

• 11-Apr, 2014 TWDTW #5: Heartbleed, Settings, User Backups

  This week we’ve been dealing with the Heartbleed issue, but more positively have also shipped (for internal, but live testing) updates to user settings and a new pro feature: real-time backup of your bins.   Read post

• 10-Apr, 2014 Heartbleed and JS Bin

  If you’ve not heard about Heartbleed, means that potentially all your passwords can be compromised. This isn’t a bug that’s specific to JS Bin, it affects most sign in forms that go over HTTPS. Yes, it’s that scary.   Read post

• 7-Apr, 2014 TWDTW #4: Tern live, and our upcoming Pro features

  We’ve now released Tern to live for everyone, and we’ve been hard at work on our Pro features and working on improving the JS Bin core code.   Read post

• 1-Apr, 2014 TWDTW #3: CodeMirror, User settings, Hacks

  Last week we rolled out SSL support for our sign in (long overdue), and this week we’ve had two pretty cool releases: CodeMirror 4 and (in private testing) user settings UI.   Read post

• 19-Mar, 2014 SSL: A secure login

  Up until now all of JS Bin has been served over standard HTTP. This is fine for most of the site, however we’ve decided to upgrade the login and register (and eventually the account settings) pages to use SSL (i.e. encrypted data transmission).   Read post

• 14-Mar, 2014 TWDTW #2: Addons, Collaboration, Hardware

  This week we released more experiments, discovered one experiment going wrong (sad face), little two day retreat playing with arduinos and where I’ll be about giving away some sweet JS Bin stickers and maybe even a t-shirt or two.   Read post

• 7-Mar, 2014 TWDTW #1: Sass, Tern, Security

  This is the first installment of “things we did this week”. Where we’ll share some of the features or changes or fixes we’ve been working on. Sometimes it will be small features, sometimes BIG exciting features and other times it’ll be progress to much longer term goals.   Read post

• 27-Feb, 2014 Welcome to the new help & blog

  JS Bin for years has done an absolutely superb job of giving its users an editor and the live output of the HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Something the project has been terrible at is exposing features and new information.   Read post