With the launch of our new “Glitch In Bio” starter project, we’ve seen thousands of creators make link pages for their social media in an inspiring variety of ways. But there’s something interesting happening behind the scenes with Glitch in Bio that points to an exciting new opportunity for the open web.

PWAs, or progressive web apps, are a way of giving apps built on web technologies the same features and finishing touches as the native mobile apps we use on our phones and other devices every day. PWAs have been around for a while, but are still not as broadly adopted by users as they might be, because most of the time, it takes extra technical work to turn a regular web app or web page into a PWA. Often, that work falls onto the list of things we file under “I’ll do that later…”

The good news is, thanks to the defaults we’ve set on Glitch, every single one of the Glitch In Bio link pages that’s been built is already a PWA. It’s built right into the project. And it’s the first step on a larger path of giving every creator the benefits of PWAs without all the technical hassles of setup or configuration.

Having your app function as a PWA brings a number of advantages. 

Being a PWA makes your app installable on user devices vs just being accessible through the web browser. This creates a higher quality experience that’s more like native (and you can enhance it to leverage native functionalities like notifications).

PWAs are more discoverable because they’re shareable by link and easily optimized for search engines, as well as being available through app stores, which means you can make it discoverable to a whole new audience, and even optionally monetize it! 

Last but not least, PWAs create a more resilient and inclusive user experience because your content is cached for offline use, so users can still access them even with restricted connectivity. Since Glitch in Bio is a generated static site, it’s highly performant and delivers content to the user super quickly by default.

Your Glitch in Bio app is all set up to function as a PWA when you remix it, but you can of course edit or enhance its functionality. The site style is already responsive to display nicely on mobile devices, and will cache the default HTML and CSS.

There are only two additional files in your project, both inside the public folder:

manifest.json which specifies the metadata required for the app to function as a PWA, including icons and the start URL

sw.js–the service worker, which specifies caching behavior for the app, including when the user is offline

Your project’s HTML page head imports both of these, in layout > head.html. To see the PWA behavior in action, open your browser dev tools and choose Application.

Your project will work out of the box as a PWA, but as you edit your Glitch in Bio project, there are a couple of details you might want to further customize in the PWA settings:

Icons: If you add your own images, including them in the list of cached files in sw.js will make them available for offline use

Metadata: If you take a look in manifest.json, you’ll see the settings that’ll determine how the app functions when installed on a user device, so you can update the text and images to suit your project

Files: If you use additional files such as your own CSS theme, add them to the list in sw.js for caching too

If you want to take things even further, you can submit your PWA to any app stores that serve your audience. There are simple instructions for submission to the Google Play store for ChromeOS, the Windows App Store, and even open source tools that will help you submit a PWA to the iOS App Store.

There are also lots of options when it comes to PWA behavior–your Glitch in Bio site will initially attempt to fetch the page from the web and only use the cache if there is no response. This is known as “network falling back to cache” but you can alter it to suit your own needs: check out the Google Developer guidance for more.

If you customize or extend the PWA component in your Glitch in Bio remix please let us know about it! We're eager to share your creativity with the rest of the community. You can also join the community in the Glitch forum to talk through your ideas for your page.

Revealed: Your Glitch in Bio page is a PWA!

Over the years, we’ve done a lot of work to make sure apps and sites that are published on Glitch are trustworthy. That’s our responsibility as a platform, but it’s also good for our community, as it means your apps will be part of a healthy, trustworthy ecosystem. It’s been a while since we’ve shared details of this work, so we wanted to share a high-level overview of how we think about the challenge. We've got some wins to celebrate, some lessons learned, and a clear sense of where our future challenges lie.

TL;DR: Glitch intentionally makes app creation as easy and open as possible, which means opening up to more potential misuses of the platform, including phishing sites. By working with a community of security researchers and our own user community, we've been able to significantly improve both our response time and our proactive action on removing potentially harmful contents over the last year. Today, less than one half of one percent of new apps created on Glitch are flagged as being potentially harmful, with that statistic going down over time. And the mean time-to-resolution for reports of potential risk continues to improve, along with faster and more comprehensive suspension and blocking of users that create potentially harmful sites. We expect future challenges to come from phishing attempts that are built across multiple sites, and will be working with the other platforms in the ecosystem to address those threats as they arise.

First, let’s consider what problem we’re trying to solve. Glitch is designed to make it as easy as possible to create full-stack websites without any barriers. In any system, reducing barriers to creation means it’s easier for bad actors to abuse those systems to make malicious creations. In our particular case, Glitch allows for creating web pages or apps without even logging in, so reducing potential abuse is even trickier than platforms that rely on traditional authentication or login.

The next question that arises is what kind of untrustworthy content could be created on Glitch? The primary concern here is the creation of phishing sites that are designed to capture users’ credentials or personal information. We’ve used a series of layered approaches to counter this risk over the years, with each building on the prior efforts. (This is a high-level overview so our community knows our philosophy on handling the problem, not as an exhaustive technical review of all the efforts we’ve taken.)

We began with selective reduction in privileges for anonymous accounts, including limiting the automated creation of projects or content on Glitch. By introducing a CAPTCHA for app creation, we were able to greatly reduce the amount of projects that were created by bots or automated systems, without compromising the ability for users to make apps without logging in. (This is a common use case for students using Glitch in schools, for example.)

Within projects, we limited access to a very small subset of code libraries that were primarily being used in abusive or malicious ways, and added systems for scanning for known malicious content. Together, these efforts have been extremely effective in curtailing potentially harmful projects while having very little impact on legitimate users of the platform.

We’ve worked with outside security organizations to build automated scanning for malicious projects if any get past our internal controls, including partners like Phishlabs and Netcraft, and resources like openphish.com and urlscan.io. The research community that works diligently around these issues has been incredibly supportive of our efforts here, especially over the last year or so as we’ve begun tying their work more closely into our internal tooling for preventing or suspending malicious project creation.

Being a community-based platform, we’ve also made continual improvements to our community reporting functions as well. Every page of the Glitch.com site includes a “report abuse” button, and every report sent through that system receives a response within 24 business hours. For the vast majority of cases, user-submitted abuse reports cover sites that our internal tools have already flagged for review, which means we've often taken action even before letting the reporting user know that we've done so.

Finally, we’ve built tools to improve our response times to be even faster. We’ve always had a straightforward security reporting infrastructure with defined processes for handling security or trust issues that are reported, but thanks to the upgrades we’ve put in place, we’re able to act more quickly to take down any malicious projects, or even to take action on accounts which create malicious content.

These improvements have yielded huge improvements across the board. Having better support tools has actually helped all Glitch users, as our mean time to response for any support ticket has decreased by nearly 40% even as the volume of support requests has increased by almost 75%.

But specific to issues around malicious content on Glitch, we’ve found that, from a sampling of 50,000 projects created during November 2021, fewer than 0.3% were flagged as potentially harmful content by either our systems or the reports generated by our partners. We’re working to improve this further, but consider it a good sign of progress in addressing the issue.

With any security or trust domain, having success in one area always results in the battleground shifting a bit to new areas. For example, while we initially focused on malicious full-stack apps being the biggest area of concern on Glitch, what we’ve found with more recent reports is that bad actors are increasingly using static resources (sometimes static HTML, sometimes other document formats like PDF) to try to capture credentials, often with the actual submission of content pointing to other, larger providers like the giant cloud hosting platforms. These static resources are typically served as assets on Glitch, not as part of the core app hosting platform, so they send different signals from full-stack apps that might be potentially harmful.

We’ve worked with our partners to update our monitoring to accommodate these new vectors of attack, and initial results are promising, but what we take away from this learning is that we’ll increasingly see sophisticated attempts that go across multiple services, with Glitch (or part of Glitch’s infrastructure) just being an intermediary in a larger, networked effort. One recent such set of attempts was documented by DomainTools, which looked at these phishing attempts in depth, revealing both their attempted targets (businesses with employees working in the Middle East) as well as their intended mechanism of capturing data (compromised WordPress sites forwarding to an Outlook email address) that show the complexity of tracking these efforts across multiple services. While these patterns are well-established in the general web hosting industry, they're relatively new to Glitch as a community, and represent novel iterations on the pattern that will take time to fully prevent. We expect to have some advantages in this work over time by relying on the social aspects of our platform to help us better distinguish the small number of malicious actors on the platform from the millions of legitimate users.

Overall, we’ve been grateful for the support of our community, including both our users who report potentially harmful apps, as well as the security researchers who provide infrastructure for proactively stopping bad actors. Over time, we’ve gotten better and better at reducing the amount of potential risk on Glitch, both in the absolute and as a percentage of what gets created on the platform every day. We are firmly committed to keeping creation and remixing on Glitch as open and accessible as possible, which means we’re also committed to being responsible for stopping the inevitable misuses that come along with that openness. And we’re glad to do it, because it means that Glitch gets to keep being a great, trusted place for you to make the most creative, interesting, innovative, and useful stuff on the web.

Over the years, we’ve done a lot of work to make sure apps and sites that are published on Glitch are trustworthy. That’s our responsibility as a platform, but it’s also good for our community, as it means your apps will be part of a healthy, trustworthy ecosystem. It’s been a while since we’ve shared details of this work, so we wanted to share a high-level overview of how we think about the challenge

How we keep Glitch sites secure and trusted

As they say, and now for something completely different. Today, we are excited to share with you the latest from the Glitch lab: Glitch In Bio. It’s unlike any other Glitch launch we’ve done before—we built a mobile-friendly, free, fully customizable landing page to use as your “Link in bio.”

➡️ Start creating your own Glitch In Bio by remixing the Glitch In Bio app right now!

If you’ve spent any time on Instagram or TikTok or Twitch, you’ve seen people using various tools to create link pages. So how is this different? Glitch In Bio lets you direct traffic to a single link without limiting how you can share, create or customize. Since Glitch runs real apps, you have the ease of instantly publishing your links, without sacrificing access to all the parts of the web that you want to share with the world. Popular tools for building bio links severely limit what you can include and how you can customize. They even sometimes make you pay just to link to things you want to show off! Glitch In Bio lets you include anything the web can do, for free.

We have a lot of fun things in store for Glitch In Bio to help all kinds of creators promote their links, including:

Free extensions to the app that cater to the different needs of the community: analytics that you own, donation widgets, custom themes, ways to show off your favorite media, and more.

Tutorials to show how to make your Glitch In Bio really your own, regardless of how many lines of code you’ve written before.

Get started creating your own Glitch In Bio by checking out our featured playlist of Glitch In Bio remixes from the community! If you have a theme or addition you want to show off, we'd love to see it. Just share it with us using this form, and we’ll be featuring the best customizations right here on Glitch.

Announcing Glitch In Bio, the easiest way to share your links!

Wow, it’s already over? Are the months going by faster? We were so excited for October to get here! We got to share Playlists with the Glitch community, and as a result, got to see the many amazing playlists you all came up with! Here are a few that we just have to brag about. 

Tiny Templates by @tinyfactories, ♻️ remix these tiny templates to start a new project or just play around with some code.

AZBS Generators, a collection of generators built by @AaronZBest

No-sense Projects by @mat12143, the right place for no sense projects

School Tools is a playlist of tools that educator @drewkerr made while learning to code

@christinavoudouris is curating some Starters/Boilerplates

Inspiration✨ are some apps that have inspired @dianaledist

As always, the Glitch community continued to inspire, surprise, and delight us with your creative concoctions during the past month. Here are a few of our favorite projects, tools, games, and more, created by you—the Glitch community!

This Gameboy was made entirely in CSS by @manekinekko.

~carter-creator by @MattTheWaffleCat is a generator of the mascot of the r/pixelart discord, Carter!

~brokenseouls by @alexandra.soderlund is a lovely web page sharing dreamy photos from Seoul.


You will want to bookmark ~meeting-starters by @EzraMechaber, to answer fun questions like “Do you like reality tv shows?” and “Would you rather smell with your hands or talk with your feet?”

Here’s an adorable TODO list by @le-anne

Here's a sandbox for testing out Slate by @jaked

~kexp-now-playing by @emceeaich tells you what’s playing on one of our favorite radio stations, KEXP!

~peregrine-facsimile by @MaggiePetrella is a bot that tweets facts about national parks in the United States. 

~tjswebcam by @utopiah uses Tesseract.js to try to type out whatever text you can hold up to your webcam.

~asteroid-report by @adnroy lets us know what the asteroid situation is at any given moment.

A Squid Game generator by @OverlappingElvis lets you devastate main character Seong Gi-hun with impossible shapes of your choosing to carve out in Ppopgi.

~walkingtournyc is a digitized version of Mariam Kaba’s Slavery & Resistance in NYC walking tour by @fatimakoli14 and @cef2169.

~chat-vintage is @dianaledist’s 90s inspired Spanish chat app.

~massachusetts-redistricting-lookup is another great map visualization by our friends at @bplmaps.

~vim-sumulator by @melissamcewen is exactly what it sounds like, only slightly more “Choose Your Own Adventuresque.”

~experimentalpenguins by @Sevenn is the start of online game Club Penguin clone.

~achewood-tarot by @patrickt is a tarot deck generator I think a lot of folks will want to get behind!

~gamemanu is a snake-like grid game with multi-player support by @num_gg.

And because we love a countdown, there are only 59(!) days left in 2021. We can’t wait to see what you all come up with both before the new year and after. As always, if you have Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup! ✨

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~zombie-holocaust-generator built by @derekahmedzai, which lets you generate movie title cards in the style of the 1980 Italian horror film—spooky stuff!

Wow, it’s already over? Are the months going by faster? We were so excited for October to get here! We got to share Playlists with the Glitch community, and as a result, got to see the many amazing playlists you all came up with! Here are a few that we just have to brag about.

Last month on Glitch, the October 2021 edition

Wowza, did you know that there are only 91 days left in 2021? With 274 down, we can’t wait to see what the Glitch community does in the next three months. Here are some of the cool, useful, and downright fascinating things you all built during the last 30 days—including playlists and an exciting giveaway! 🤯

Official Tutorials & Templates is a playlist of apps to get you started on your journey with Tensorflow.js, curated by the official @TensorFlowJS team

Poetry Bots is a playlist of apps that let you create poetry in unique ways. Curated by @pomeranian99, he’s including bots that he’s created as well as poetry apps from the community. 

Community Starters is a playlist of a variety of starters that you can choose from to remix and go, curated by @khalby786!

@SteGriff curated Things to make with Vue to share starters and demos of Vue for and by the community.

Built a playlist (or two) of your own, or looking to start? For the entire month of October, we’re partnering with Google Registry to give out 50 free .dev and .app domains every week to Glitch creators who curate and submit playlists that will inspire and empower the community. Submit yours by filling out this form for a chance to get a domain of your own! 🎉 🆓

Now, here are some of our other fave highlights from the Glitch community during the month of September. 

~bubo-rss is a remixable minimal rss feed, which also includes directions on how to get it running on Glitch in their GitHub repo's README.

~favicon-chat is a chat client that displays primarily in the favicon, another @aTylerRobertson original.

~propper by @robertbrook makes articles easier to read—just put “https://propper.glitch.me” in front of the URL of any other site.

~open-lab-notebook is a LaTex notebook by @OkayHughes, a computational atmospheric scientist.

A few weeks ago was @stegriff's 3 year anniversary in the forum so he made ~glitch-timeline.glitch.me to celebrate and visualize a timeline of his projects! Oh, and he also made ~eversince, a PWA track/counter app!

~webhid-ds4 by @joegaffey demos WebHID by visualizing key presses when you connect your Playstation 4 controller via USB. 

~awesome-stack by @jinmayjhaveri006 is an API for showing which stack your GitHub repos are built with.

~cosmic-lizard-cornet built by @DavidAllinReese is just a thing of beauty to enjoy. 

~space-archers is a space invaders game with an archery twist by @coc.calendar.jp.

@secondcass created ~800x80, which shuffles and shares 800x80 illustrations shared on Twitter under the #800x80 hashtag.

~lightningloops by @n1ckfg is a musical piece of art trained on their own piano playing.  

Need some writing ideas? Check out ~synopsis-generator by @pacwang and ~drabble by @jilliangmeehan.

~towering-petite-puma by @ni4yja is a cute typing game made during a coding workshop. Shouts out to Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!

~chromatic-keyboard by@kosamari is a really cool and interactive demonstration of the Web Audio API.

~infinite-dinos by @csb324 generatively creates dinosaurs...has JavaScript GONE TOO FAR??

~elo-ranker by @csb324 is a neat ranking tool that’s great for prioritization in meetings. No, ELO does not stand for Electric Light Orchestra here.

~jeopardy-answer by @Fortyseven62953. What is an app that lets you create Jeopardy! screens? Check out the creator’s blog post about it!

~age2death by @LingDong- detects your face and then makes you decay—it’s so gross! We love it. 

Truly, September had it all—fat bears, Jeopardy!, computational science, face melting, and even dinosaurs! We can’t wait to see what you all come up with in October (we’re secretly hoping for a Halloween-themed playlist *fingers crossed*). As always, if you have Glitch projects you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your project in our next roundup! ✨

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~fatbear, the ultimate hibernation prep bear simulator built by @hootalex which we’re excited to feature in honor of Fat Bear Week 2021. 

Wowza, did you know that there are only 92 days left in 2021? With 273 down, we can’t wait to see what the Glitch community does in the next three months. Here are some of the cool, useful, and downright fascinating things you all built during the last 30 days—including playlists!

Last month on Glitch, the September 2021 edition

Today, we’re introducing Playlists to Glitch — bringing all the power of organizing, sharing and discovering new apps, in a way that’s as familiar and fun as the playlists you use to manage music, videos, or anything else. (And good news: we’ve migrated all existing Collections on Glitch to be playlists, so there are already over 100,000 to explore!) 

Remember making a mixed tape? Or burning a CD with your favorite songs on them? Or—what’s the modern-day equivalent—creating a playlist on your favorite streaming app? Playlists are as fun to make as they are to receive. Both activities are labors of love and creativity. Most importantly, playlists are an instrument to help our community’s projects reach the people who would most find joy in using them.

Glitch is built around an important idea, that creating and sharing apps is as important as creating and sharing photos, documents, videos or anything else. So of course it should be just as fun and easy! So that’s why we’ve created playlists. Borrowing from the familiar metaphor we’ve all come to know, playlists of apps make it easy to share a collection of apps or projects while adding useful context, for yourself or for others.

The first thing you need to know about playlists is you don’t need to know how to code to create and curate playlists. In fact, being a playlist curator is a great way to be a creator on Glitch, just like making apps is. You get all the same joys of sharing creativity with the world and doing something helpful for the community, and the opportunity for others to thank you for sharing.

Each playlist features newly styled project cards stacked vertically in the order of your choosing. To the right of the cards, curators can add notes on any app in a playlist, to explain why the app is useful, or just to help you remember what you liked about a project you saved. 

Don’t forget to give your playlist a title. You can also add a description at the top, to help describe what colleagues and community members can expect from your playlist. Maybe it’s a themed playlist, or a series of tutorials, or just a collection of your greatest hits!

Play mode: To make it even easier to discover apps in playlists, we’ve made a playback mode where you can walk through all the apps in a playlist. It’s perfect for learners who want to step through a list of related apps, or just to check out a series of projects for inspiration.

Playlist curation is a great way to organize your profile, collect apps from the rest of the community, and share Glitch apps with others. That’s why we wanted to make it even easier to highlight creators. At the bottom of each playlist you curate, people will be able to see other apps and projects you’ve built. And it’s easier than ever to show the love! You can thank playlist creators right from the playlist, just like you can thank app creators everywhere on Glitch. It’s a nice way to make their day brighter, and yours too!

If you poke around Glitch.com, you’ll see some other updates.

Creating playlists is one way to update your Glitch profile, but we wanted to make it all look snazzy. Each individual project page has been updated to reflect the new card styles presented in playlists, as well as highlights the additional apps or projects a project creator has built, making it even easier to surface great apps from the Glitch community. The new cards style for projects also now show up in search results.  Lastly, on keeping things cool: As always, we care about keeping Glitch a friendly and welcoming place for everyone, so we’ve made it simpler than ever to flag things on Glitch that might be potentially troublesome. Click the report abuse button to flag anything that’s not up to our community standards.

In order to spark creativity or maybe just pique your curiosity, we’re sharing some playlists the Glitch team put together to help get you started.

But that’s not nearly enough examples, so here are some playlists from the Glitch community we think are pretty great. 

Things to make and do with Vue.js by @stegriff

Six Superb Sunday Sites by @jhnbngtssn – Read our interview with John to learn about Sunday Sites - maybe your app will end up on this playlist!

Art or math? by @rowan-m poses (and possibly answers) the most important question in computer science. 

There’s a lot more in store for the Glitch community this fall, but we’re very excited to see what you’ll do with playlists. Playlists give us at Glitch an opportunity to showcase more of your creations to the rest of the world, too, including on /create-project and even in search results! So get out there and create some playlists, friends, and share your favorites with us at community@glitch.com, on Twitter at @glitch, and on the Glitch forum.  ☺️

Today, we’re introducing Playlists to Glitch — bringing all the power of organizing, sharing and discovering new apps, in a way that’s as familiar and fun as the playlists you use to manage music, videos, or anything else.

Introducing Playlists, the best way to curate and share Glitch apps!

Welcome to September! Which means almost fall, which means almost Halloween and then the holidays and now it’s basically 2022. Welcome to the last few days of 2021, basically. If you too feel like time is flying, take comfort (or a breather!) by checking out all of the cool things that the Glitch community put together during the month of August while some of us just completely lost track of time. 

Wait, before we get started, one important thing worth mentioning is glitch.new just in case you missed it. Enjoy this shortcut to many of our starter apps, including Eleventy, React, and SQLite, or get down to business building your app, so we can feature it in next month’s community roundup. 

~imagining-progress by @louis-yes is a paper doll app made for a rock-climbing friend.

Try coloring in this fun plan of Boston, or make your own at coloring-book-generator.glitch.me, created by @bplmaps.

~joline-spirograph by @meklarian is a spirograph app and in this house we love spirographs!

~hex-triplet-words by @annoyedhumanoid is a beautiful display of hex colors that also are words, as shown off on the Glitch forum’s Gallery.

~solid-spangled-ranunculus by @habbekak is a soundboard for saying “Michael” several different ways.

~endless-nothing by @ghostglyph is a really simple poetry generator.

Check out ~todays-album, created by @tec27, after he saw some people tweeting that it was the anniversary of an album he liked.

We loved this experimentation with reflections in A-Frame, created by @cwervo.

~bikelanes by @hootalex visualizes the distance of bike lanes laid throughout the country!

~mostcommonjsprojects by @christinavoudouris lets you search the top JavaScript projects on GitHub.

~htmlview by @fonsp lets you view a rendered html doc of an html file from GitHub.

~every-different-district by @bplmaps shows US congressional districts according to various demographic variables, like median income.

@josepharhar built ~accent-color to demo some actually cool and exciting CSS changes coming for form elements.

~p5 is a clever use for the glitch.me domain for this p5.glitch package, built by @ffd8.

@Potch made a dashboard-friendly view of @NOAA’s smoke forecasts: ~us-smoke-forecast.

Miscellaneous and necessary! 👽 🦖 🤠

~ringlight is a digital, adjustable ringlight by@jlozovei. Remix and change its colors to suit your lighting needs!

~theuseless-web by @Zrafei will drop you into one of many “useless web” apps.

~create-a-jazzword by @holgerkurtz is a password generator where you can play the password.

~memepool by @everyplace is a resource for their Cooper Union Interactive Design course which displays resources stored in a Google Sheet.

~roadtrip is for road trips without birds, ~birdtrip is for road trips with birds.

not only are ~favicon-snake and ~favicon-pong by @aTylerRobertson really cool, but we also came across his ~pin-tab-pomo. It’s really cool to see the use of the favicon in tabs here!

~threejs-gltf-mosquito by @mrdoob has us really excited for a Jurassic Park event in the metaverse one day.

~thisolesyadoesnotexist is another great app from @monolesan, generating fake photos of her using a generative adversarial network (GAN).

Did you know that many New England town names are duplicated across the six states? This new tool from @bplmaps shows you which ones are the most common: ~town-after-town. 

Which of these apps will you be remixing to put your own spin on things? For the uninitiated, remixing is creating your own copy of an existing project. From there, you can customize the project and make other changes. Already an existing project owner, but want to add the nifty Remix button to your project? Use this link!

As always, if you have Glitch projects you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your project in our next roundup! ✨

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~fishdraw built by Lingdong Huang, which has been shared widely via Hacker News and Twitter. 

Welcome to almost September! Which means almost fall, which means almost Halloween and then the holidays and now it’s basically 2022.

Last month on Glitch, the August 2021 edition

How is it that July simultaneously felt like the longest month of the year and like it was over in a blur? However time flowed through your last month, we have a full roster of amazing projects that the Glitch community built over the course of July. 

~unicode-guessing-game by @christianp is a game where you guess the name given to a Unicode symbol. I'm not great at it!

If you loved cookie clicker then you need to play ~idle-chicken by @24amesquir right now!

~infini-footy by @aTylerRobertson is a multi-player soccer game!

~pet-the-loaf is a very important game by @mjlee3w.

Glitch enthusiast and creative technologist Rich Yee has done it again with kalidoface.com—but this time it’s in 3D. Check it out!  

~chaos-board is a fun multiplayer soundboard that plays the sounds behind popular emoji, created by @aTylerRobertson.

~hunter-comic is a beautiful online comic about a doctor and their newfound friend by @amepixel.

~vagabond-grove-brook is the dissertation project of @jRoshLam that lets you explore the timbre of sounds, which is what lets us distinguish different instruments from each other. Check out the video about it, it’s really cool stuff and uses the Web Audio API!

~philly-public-art by @dudethatbe is a search engine for public art in Philly.

~infinethum-ephemeral by @sheIby lets you create generative geometric art. 

~memoires is an art piece by @n.hieda that lets you traverse through conversations they have with someone.

Stare too long into ~cyberneticflow by @rodolfoocampo and you may find yourself in another dimension.

~molybdenum-supply by @pts is a stunning microfiction web zine.

~realless by@monolesan uses Tensorflow.js and your eyes to change the layout of the page as you blink.

~keyboard-dressup by @anh lets you map out different colored keys for your next mechanical keyboard.

~peyote-internet-theatre is @denmch’s first website, a *sob* Jeff Buckley tribute site. We love when the community uploads their very first websites to Glitch!

~2021-reads is a really nice looking reading list by @ivavay.

~tweet-image is a utility by @ozgrozer that lets you generate nice images of tweets in case you prefer that over using the JavaScript embeds.

We love this very adorable web page version of a very adorable tweet, by @mjlee3w.

~ajar-distinct-library by @srunika.k uses Teachable Machine to detect if your pronunciation is English or French. Read their blog about it!

~rana-maga by @diegose will make an anagram out of what you type. It was suggested to someone as a way to generate a fake username.

~affirmations by@cubeghost is an affirmation memes generator from a friend of ours, discovered on a Tumblr timeline! It’s cool to bump into a Glitch app versus just seeking them out!

~three-good-things by @desilove is a really awesome tool for practicing gratitude. This app has been around awhile but is making the rounds again.

~shore-lowly-parenthesis is a utility by Google @softplus for grabbing the images from within a Google doc, something that’s normally hella annoying to do.

~twb-data-source-mapper maps out the data sources used in a Tableau workbook, created by their product manger, @KeshiaRose.

~dark-mattr-theme by @tamojaydey is a very nice theme for VS Code, but we wouldn't mind one day configuring the Glitch editor to use it!

~squiggy by @LingDong- is a really cool stroke polygonizer. Check out their profile for other really rad and impressive doodly apps!

~direct-img by @lomanic is an awesome tool that helps you get the actual image file from services like Tumblr and Giphy who turn .gif requests into branded landing pages.

We love this use of our Eleventy starter: ~hospitable-diffeqs is a guide to differential equations by @art.and.math.mmss

Want to brush up on your JavaScript? Check out ~101-exercises by @ryanorsinger, and you’ll be reversing arrays and umm other stuff, in no time!

Fanmail, a.k.a blogs from the community ✍️

Clive Thompson wrote about his really cool pomodoro timer that we even use, ~text-pomodoro.

Glitch is used to demo failure states in this blog post about Lighthouse and render blocking

Logrocket published a tutorial on getting started with the Notion API, which of course uses Glitch as the starting point.

Check out this interview of Oz Ramos, creator of Handsfree.js and Glitch enthusiast!

Glitch using Glitch (because “dogfood” = yuck 😝)

Shouts out to Casey for making ~standup-time. It’s tools like this that we love to see our community using Glitch for at work, so it’s great to see us modeling that from within. It makes our daily-standups more streamlined. 👏

Love dev.to? So do we! Check us out over there and follow along for more updates. 

That’s it for now friends. Remember you can always check out our collections of monthly project roundups plus other cool apps on the Glitch community page. And if you have Glitch projects you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your project in our next roundup! ✨

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~recursive-cube-split built by @yellarkh, which is a colorful and cool Mondrian-style generative art app.

How is it that July simultaneously felt like the longest month of the year and like it was over in a blur? However time flowed through your last month, we have a full roster of amazing projects that the Glitch community built over the course of July.

Last month on Glitch, the July 2021 edition

One of the best parts of Glitch is that you can go from idea to sharing in seconds, and we’re always on a quest to further improve your time-to-hello-world without complicated tooling or lock-in. Last year we launched the Glitch.new shortcut to help that cause. Since then, we’ve seen thousands of apps created with Glitch.new, as well as an overwhelmingly positive response from the community!

Now, thanks to all of your excellent feedback and shortcut requests, we’re excited to announce an entirely new Glitch.new.

Now, starting up your next React app is now as simple as going to glitch.new/react. And there are similar shortcuts for all the most popular frameworks used to build on Glitch!

But what if you don’t see your favorite framework? We’ve got you covered! You can create a shortcut for any public project on glitch by using glitch.new/~[project-name]. 

Plus, here’s one more superpower: You can use glitch.new to import from GitHub. Just put glitch.new in front of any GitHub repo URL in your browser, and you’ll instantly have that repo imported and running on Glitch.

Just launched: a whole new glitch.new shortcut, that makes it faster and easier than ever to create any kind of app instantly in your browser. Make a new full stack React or Eleventy app, remix any Glitch app, or even import a GitHub repo, all just by typing glitch.new.