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Chris Heilmann

Without love - a creative coding challenge to win tickets for our events and come on Coffee With Developers

November 03, 2026
A heart generated by code
A heart generated by code

Math is beautiful – check it out on Codepen

At WeAreDevelopers, we love to code. We love the concept of creating something from nothing, finding a solution for a problem and create something people can get excited about.

That’s why we thought we’d give you a challenge to show what you can do with an HTML document containing some wisdom by Lao-Tzu about what several concepts become when love is missing.

We’ve used this to learn about some new(ish) things in CSS we hadn’t played with before and we encourage you to use this as an opportunity to try out something new.

There are no rules what you do with this and what tech you use.

  • We will pick three winners in the next few weeks
  • We will invite them to a special edition of Coffee With Developers to talk about their submissions. This means that of course you can use AI to create your submission, but we also want you to be able to explain what you’ve done and why it works.
  • All winners get a free ticket to one of our events, either in Berlin, Bengaluru or San Jose.

You can submit your solution as a pull request here - simply create a folder with your name and code in the entries folder.

What about AI generated creativity?

We asked a few of the leading models to take on the challenge and they fared quite differently. Here are the solutions with the readme files where the models waxed poetic about what they came up with:

We reviewed the different outcomes in WeAreDevelopers Live, here’s a highlight reel:

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Now it is your turn, show the world what adding some love can do.