Last month on Glitch, the July 2022 edition

If we had to pick one word to describe July 2022 for the Glitch community it would be movement. Regardless of whatever else is going on in the world, the creators keep pushing forward, building apps for loved ones to keep moving through the world, personal economics calculators to keep those numbers flowing, even an app that just bounces around to the delight of everyone who sees it. So take a quick break with us, as we review the new and fascinating contributors from the Glitch community over the past month.

The coolest tools 😎

• ~bigboxgas by @FlantasticDan is a search engine for “big box” gas prices that looks way nicer than Costco’s app for this.
• ~real-coal-neon by @camclay helps you calculate what remote work saves you (and the Earth)!
• ~dekadeka by @noty2008 is a simple page with a contenteditable area so you can click and edit the text. Tip: nice to use if you want to hold your iPad up with a note to a loved one when you’re picking them up from the airport!
• ~simple-period-tracker is a period tracker that @rahatarmanahmed made for his wife with privacy in mind. It’s a progressive web app and saves the data to local storage instead of the cloud.
• ~basic-rough-notation by @pshihn is a demo of this really cool library, RoughJS, that lets you add visual notations to your webpage! Check out their playlist for more RoughJS examples.
• ~cola-calculator by @dphiffer is a cost of living adjustment calculator
• ~essentia by @EricEisaman is a series of demos of Essentia.js, an “Open-source C++ library for audio analysis and audio-based music information retrieval.”
• ~lsdsng-to-html by @aga68k converts lsdj to other formats. It got a nice shoutout from someone who made a cool visualizer with it!

~relative-fiction by @filipnest uses the Foursquare and OpenWeatherMap APIs to let you create dynamic stories relative to where your reader is, which is really fascinating!

Artistic stuff 🎨

• ~trail-talented-angelfish by @AKST is an app that renders sheet music, a great starter for your future music apps!
• ~hushed-airy-dragonfly by @aidelojejoshua counts how many vowels are in a string. May or may not be related, but the Bee Movie script has 14438 vowels.
• ~srcsnap by @LingDong- connects screenshots with a particular project revision, a tool for and by generative artists.
• ~discover-music by @tomthecollins is a music discovery tool made through research at University of York.
• ~momentous-dusty-alloy by @hitode909 was a widely shared page that let viewers watch the different stages of the Fuji Rock Festival in parallel.

Community classics 🏆

• The first Glitch app to ever go viral, ~f1-start by @jakearchibald, had another wave of shares on Twitter as people there tried to see who has the best reflexes.
• ~caninclude by @CyberLight has been around for awhile but it’s worth sharing again for newer folks. It’s a widely cited tool for seeing if you can put a given HTML element inside another one. Use it next time you even think of putting a div in a button!

*~stellenbosch-heritage-tree-storymap by @wihan is a storytelling map of “exceptional” trees in Stellenbosch.

Miscellaneous but necessary! 🔮

• Some clocks: ~qr-clock by @pi43r is a QR code, and ~css-binary-clock by @christianp is a great starter for a binary clock or timer!
• ~marbled-paper by @nonphoto is a simulator we never knew we needed but have definitely been missing: marbling paper virtually!
• ~days-since-last-uk-politician-resigned by @leighghunt was widely shared as UK politicians were resigning in droves recently.
• ~3dep by @giswqs is a map that compares the tiles available in the USGS 3DEP LidarExplorer versus Google’s Earth Engine.
• ~uk-nutrition-label by @acme is an app that generates simplified nutritional information about packaged food in the United Kingdom.
• ~spring-tricolor-shop by @aidelojejoshua is a character counter—very useful for prototyping tweets or other strings with a character max! They also made this anime quote generator, ~shell-golden-operation.

*~polarized-faint-asparagus by @higashi.k*ota used Flubber for a smooth as butter animation.

Fun and games 🕹

• ~resonance-choir by @tomthecollins and @jemily was an installation at Web Audio Conf that happened last week. It uses the Resonance Audio SDK to let listeners immerse themself as if they were in the venue!
• ~arithmos by @Kiritchell is a number guessing game
• ~nothcom by @jooooooon is a puzzle game inspired by the iconic riddle, notpron.
• ~motley-intelligent-author is a cute and satisfying little app made by @cora+glitch. Remix to edit the table content and flip all the things in your life that need a good flipping!
• ~faint-infrequent-breeze by @caesiumtea is an incremental game
• ~netronics-mapmaker by @Osmose is a prototype tilemap editor for people building custom BBS servers in the game Last Call BBS
• ~bitter-snowy-catboat is an interactive fiction app and @tenderblackfeelings’s first HTML game! Great work! In case you missed it, we also profiled design researcher and creator Elvia Vasconcelos on the Glitch blog this month, so please check out our discussion with her on the politics of participation, and honestly like a hundred other intriguing things! 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 ~500-breezy-cursors, another new classic by @adarosecannon.