Last month on Glitch, the August 2021 edition

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.

Art, Music, and Games 🎨 🎶 👾

• ~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.

DataViz and Tools We <3 📊 🛠 ❤️

~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 [email protected]—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.