Embed Everything But the Kitchen Sink: DEV's URL Embed List

Stumbled upon DEV's supported URL embeds list and it's a goldmine. Turns out you can embed not just YouTube and Twitter (sorry, X) but a whole bunch of niche services — Codepen, Spotify, you name it. It's like walking into a conference and finding booths with every widget imaginable instead of boring talks.

The list includes CodeSandbox, Glitch, Replit, Stackblitz, and even Pinterest. For devs, this is a godsend: you can drop live code examples right into your article without forcing readers to click away. Remember the pain of copying 50 lines of code and running them locally? Now it's a single embed away.

Of course, there's a catch: not all embeds work flawlessly, and sometimes they look like IKEA furniture assembled without instructions — crooked and with screws sticking out. But overall, it's a step toward interactive blogs instead of text walls. Especially glad DEV supports Glitch — a service that usually lives its own life.

If you run a tech blog, this list is your Swiss Army knife. Instead of wrestling with iframes and CSS, just paste a link and magic happens. Just double-check how it looks on mobile — embeds can be as moody as a cat on a rainy day.

METABYTE studio comment: We love embeds too — they save time and sanity. Though after the fifth CodeSandbox embed, you might want to refactor the whole article. But if you need more than a blog — a full-blown product — we're here to help, with embeds only where they actually make sense.