Last month on Glitch, the January 2022 edition
Hello there! We are now in month two of 2022, can you even believe it? It might feel like January went by too fast (or not—What is time but a social construct??) but we’re convinced that’s only the case because so many things happened during the last month. Let’s recap!
We started the new year off with the delivery of our biggest update ever to the new editor! Glitch’s editor does all the stuff you’d expect: writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc., but it also has features you might not be used to! How does previewing 3D objects in the editor, or better inline error reporting sound? Check out all of the updates to the Glitch editor in the announcement post from earlier this month.
We also announced our partnership with Fastly, to bring Compute@Edge, their serverless compute platform to Glitch! Now it’s even easier to create high-quality, customized digital experiences on Fastly’s edge cloud platform through an integration that lets you deploy Glitch apps right to Compute@Edge. Sign up to join the waiting list for our upcoming beta.
However, the best part of our month was getting to see all of the creative ways the Glitch community expresses themselves on the web. ✨ Here are some of our favorite projects.
Art + Data Viz 🎨 📊
- ~keyframe-string-generator creates Bezier animation curves for AI art, by @chigozienri
- ~synonymous-hip-tote is a graduate datavis course project that visualizes the changes in hate crime stats over administrations.
- ~athousandeyes is an interactive visual poem by @aceslowman
- ~gesture-as-meme by@liuleslie is an essay analyzing types of movement as a meme on Tiktok
*~bird-oclock by @blprnt is a live clock using photos of birds from around the globe!
Cool tools 👽 🛠
- ~korean-typing by @rebeccasaw lets you type in Hangul (Korean alphabet) on an American keyboard.
- ~qr-clock is a QR code clock by @pi43r. Wild how QR codes are so...normal. Wasn’t the case 15 years ago!!
- ~comparing-pixelated-scaling by @bhaviksingh compares the different drawing approaches of three different 2d-drawing web tools.
- ~dice-clock is a clock that tells time using dice by@dylanwh. Love clock themed projects for January.
*@cogdog, the creator of ~twitter-time-tunnel wrote about b*uilding a “Twitter time tunnel” on Glitch, inspired by a tweet of Anil’s!
**Miscellaneous and necessary! **📚 🍪
- ~statues-game is a game by @ma.ring.forest, inspired by Squid Games, that detects body movement to move you forward, but you better stop when the doll starts looking!
- ~what-kind-of-girl-scout-cookie-are-you by @slynch-github and @virginia.m.lynch, finally answers the question that has vexed generations!
- Clive Thomspons wrote about his newest creation on Glitch, ~weird-old-book-finder, which is a search engine for...weird old books!
- And ~random-old-book by @jessamyn of ~weird-old-book-finder that randomizes the experience!
- Hey, look at~hey-look-at-us, by@hoffm. Favorite Wordle remixes 🟩 ⬛️ 🟨
January was truly the month of ~~ Wordle ~~ and the Glitch community took Wordle and remixed it to create delightful versions including the following:
- ~brdl by @hootalex, followed by the UK version. here are the ~birdcodes
- ~dolphin-wordle by @chigozienri
- ~town-puzzle-game by @mapsmania
- ~sqwortle by @jonathanex
- ~horsle by @mikeodyllan
- ~airportle by @avibagla Several of these have been added to this list of Wordle clones from around the world, and check out ~wordle-invaders which is a game that uses Wordle tweets to populate the field.
Wow, you all really kicked January off to a great start! We can’t believe it’s already February. 😅 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 ~procedural-snowflake, another banger built by @p*otch which generates really cool snowflakes.