Last month on Glitch, the February 2022 edition
Hello there, and welcome to the latest edition of the Last month on Glitch recap, written to you from the—gasp!—third month of 2022. Although it shouldn’t actually be shocking when February goes by so fast, it’s the shortest month of the year. But here we are, with another month’s worth of creative, intriguing, and delightful developments made by you, the Glitch community!
Before we get to that, we need to quickly shout out some of the things we think could be useful to you in your next project. Last month, we teamed up with DigitalOcean to add a “deploy to DO” button to the Glitch editor. Also, we’re getting ready to announce an update for those of you who signed up for Fastly’s Compute@Edge on Glitch beta. Not on the list yet? There’s still time to sign up!
Cool tools 😎
- ~shimmering-planet-metacarpal by @kenneth.kufluk is a voice-activated multiplication quiz
- 𝓌ℯ 𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉ℯ𝓍𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓈𝒻ℴ𝓇𝓂ℯ𝓇, a.k.a. ~text-transformer by @pts
- ~jupyter-lite by @EricEisaman brings Jupyter Lite into Glitch
- ~speech-paragraph by @tomayac is a demo of Danny Moerkerke’s speech-paragraph custom element that “extends the native paragraph HTML element
and enables it to read its text out loud using Web SpeechSynthesis.”
- ~next-slide-please by @aTylerRobertson is a presenter-controlled slide app!
*~epb by @emmettbaber is a cool link-in-bio app using A-Frame.
WebXR Roundup 🧱
- ~digital-pottery by @high_byte is an app we’ve shared before, but it came up again on Twitter!
- ~multiuser-blocks by @pschroen is a really cool 3D multi-user “room” where you can throw around 3d objects.
- And if you’re new to A-Frame, read more at glitch.com/webxr. Also, we love these A-Frame and WebXR playlists from @fcor, so be sure to check them out!
Very Necessary Art 🎨
- ~rainbowfishdraw by @bscott711 is a remix of ~fishdraw but with colors and movement
- ~i-love-dotdotdot by @loganwilliams is a generative poem that pulls live content from Twitter (so beware of NSFW content! ☠️)
*~efficacious-sudden-smoke by @jetsuko is a very clever Street Fighter arcade sim using Youtube I-Frames.
**Games + Fun Stuff **👾
- ~a-slaty-in-a-gullstack by @blprnt lets you “live the experience of looking for one gull among thousands of nearly identical gulls in your browser!”
- ~neighborly-like-feels by @joshi22amit is a two-player dice rolling game
- ~rrhaircolorselector by @arianna1098765 lets you choose different hair colors for Ryan Reynolds lol
Miscellaneous and exciting! 👽
- ~voice-o-matic by @PhpenixPythonCode
- ~azure-sunny-elbow by @evanbindz, named GlitchWiki, is a recreation of MediaWiki on Glitch!
- ~townscaper-dataviz by @pomeranian99 lets you turn data into pretty towns!
- ~truth-exuberant-wave by @krystenchenoweth is a collection of pomodoro sessions on Youtube.
- ~bad-bridges by @ohheyitsrainy was created to map out the bridges of Pittsburgh and how structurally sound (or not) they are. You can learn more and hear from its creator in this article from Pittsburgh CityPaper about it!
~liars-wordle by @Radcliffe is Wordle on Hardcore Mode. Give them some love on the forum if you play and enjoy it!
Wordle Clones 🚂
It’s a Wordle World now, friends and we’re just living in it. Check out our playlist of Wordle clones, after you take a look at a few of our faves from this month.
- Speaking of faves, ~favle by @aTylerRobertson is Wordle in the favicon!
- ~trainle by @WheresAlice for UK train codes
- ~broadcastle by @johntcolucci is for the local news words
- ~worlde-word-game by @mapsmania uses countries and cities
- ~equinox-fast-balmoral by @AlisonStevens has you guess chord progressions! **Fun fact, 20+ of the links in this Wordles of the world are Glitch apps!
And yes, there’s Wordle art...
- ~braginator by @StuartHoughton85754 is an emoji wordle brag generator
- ~wordle-art by @pau-tomas lets you draw your own wordle brag!
- ~wordleshares by @thisismattmiller shows a distribution of wordle shares (We’ve been calling them brags, respectfully and lovingly).
- ~ringle by@AlisonStevens is a changeringing version of Wordle. We really admire Alison’s ability to connect such an old, “non-technical” activity to her app development.
- ~rewordle by @chigozienri lets you go back in Wordle time, if you dare.
So there you have it, another month of projects that make folks think, laugh, or smile; keep up the good work, friends! 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 [email protected]—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup! ✨
The project featured in this post’s header image is ~draggy-box by @christianp which looks like a layout demo but is actually a really elegantly made game! They also made https://glitch.com/~rectangle-pals, a cool screensaver-like app.