I thought it might be cool if you could rely more on JavaScript to enhance code samples with CodePen prefill embeds. Especially if you're written your article with regular Markdown:
<div class="testing"></div>
.test { width: 20px; height: 20px; background: blue; }
document.querySelector('.testing').classList.add('test');
Couple of issues though:
Just something people will have to be aware of I guess.
Here is some more code:
<div class="testing"></div>
.testing { width: 20px; height: 20px; background: red; }