Last month on Glitch, the May 2021 edition

Around the web, May was about many things: a rainbow of M1 iMacs, very hungry caterpillars, bags of gasoline, Mare of Easttown, the list goes on. But here on Glitch, we celebrated new app starters, the BTS army, colors like you’ve never seen, and of course, some amazing remixes. But one thing was for certain – May was a season about fun and reawakening, and we definitely saw those themes in the apps that you all created during the past month.

Developer tools 🛠️

Hello, starter apps! Not only did folks do some awesome remixing of our new starters for React and Eleventy, but they also began to create more!

• ~glitch-hello-vuetify is a simple Vuetify 3 starter, based on the Vue 3 starter, created by @Stylix58.
• ~Elm-Lang is a clean Elm language app scaffolding, created by @christianp.
• ~hello-webpack-typescript, created by @KumuPaul is a template for building a vanilla single page application with Webpack.
• @jonathan-annett created ~glitch-zenpoint-repl which allows you to run a REPL via Glitch. A REPL, or read–eval–print loop, is a development tool that allows you to interact with objects in your code.
• ~mdn-content-popularity lists Mozilla Developer Network (mdn) content by popularity, which is a pretty cool API if you ask us. Hats off to @tomayac!
• ~alternative-twitter-embeds, created by @stefan, allow you to embed tweets without compromising your users’ privacy and your site’s performance.

_~guessrgb is an RGB guessing game, and related to color is ~find-css-colors which is a cute CSS color name picker.

Fun and games 👾

• ~blink-blink uses Tensorflow and your webcam to change the background when you blink, created by @monolesan. We can’t wait to see this being remixed to create a cool photo booth app or game that you can play with just your eyes!
• A project from MIT’s Feminist Futures hackathon, ~reproconvos is both a physical card set, and a digital set, built by @blouhie and @althea.rao. The cards are a set for Conversations For Every Dinner Table, and give prompts to discuss topics like postpartum issues, menstruation, pregnancy, reproductive health, and more.
• ~are-we-done-yet is a really fun and also infuriating game by @dmmanesh that tests your patience but it’s hard to stop playing.
• The BTS army has been using Glitch to track streams for years and on May 21, a new single came out ~butter~, which means a new viral BTS site for it—you guessed it: ~bts-butter went up too.
• ~bequiet is an audio-reactive experiment by@dnlsmm using Hydra! 

*Just look at how ~color-twist renders, we wish it would go *on forever. Created by @bengarvey.

Art and design 🎨

• We absolutely love this notation editor because it seems like the start of something incredibly useful to music writers.
• ~fluid-expressions, by @sharma.sas, is an artwork that “takes the form of a work of online speculative fiction centered around the design and craft of an object called a memory capsule.”
• ~css-ch-typography, by @equinusocio, is a short, sweet, but super informative tool for understanding what "ch" units in css typography are.
• We love how @celalexis makes a photography portfolio interactive with ~nurraihan.  Meta apps 🖥️

Apps for blogging or using Glitch, featured on the Glitch blog.

• You have to check out the Glitch In the Wild app, created by @khalby786, which is a really awesome list of tools available for developers on Glitch and was crowdsourced by the wonderful folks in the Glitch support forum!
• ~oregano-blog is a little blogging app created by @aTylerRobertson powered by Markdown, Express, Showdown and Pug.
• Created by @SteGriff, the app ~thats-no-moon enables you to build your own Glitch-y loader.

~datapointe by @ipen is a MOST CLEVERLY named data visualization project about ballet 🩰

**Dataviz and crypto, two peas in a pod? **

• Data of New York is a Twitter and Mastodon bot, built by @stefan that tweets maps created using data from NYC Open Data and Mapbox. Want to read more about it? Check out this short write-up.
• ~hen-worlds is a cryptocurrency hackathon project (specifically for hic et nunc) that explores what a metaverse for hic et nunc would be. It embeds (from our understanding) NFTs from IPFS within an a-frame virtual world. And just like that, we’re into a new month. Thank you so much for all of the wisdom, surprise, and delight that you bring to Glitch! We can’t wait to see what you come up with next month. If you have Glitch projects you built or love and want us to feature, share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email [email protected] - You may just end up in our next roundup! ✨

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~laboratoriomedusa, built with Hydra, the live coding visualization library, by[ @tacacocoding](https://glitch.com/@tacacocoding) as a visualizer for their friend’s album.