Last month on Glitch, the July 2023 edition
Did you know that the “dog days of summer” begin in July? If you’re anything like my dog Maggie, the dog days should be more about bothering people to let you outside so you can eat bees, and less about heat and lethargy. See also bothering the cats just to entertain yourself. Speaking of entertainment, we have a full roster of cool apps the Glitch community created during the last 31 days, but before we get to that I want to tell you about a new feature on glitch.com.
Last month we introduced a new feature called App of the Week. Each week we’re selecting projects nominated by the community to be featured on the glitch.com website — maybe including yours!
To submit your app (or your favorite app) to be featured, just fill out this form, or share your app in the nominations thread on the community forum. We can’t wait to see what you choose!
*~iphonespacergif by @mikker *helps you declutter the homescreen of your iPhone with a handy gif.
Cool Tools 😎
- ~zippy-inky-radar created by @shmen-shmen is a productivity app with the ability to increase your productivity to scary levels…
- ~wagtail-starter created by @Scotchester is a Glitch-hosted starter for the open source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework.
- ~ocrop by @admin46899, finally a way to pull the text you need out of the mess returned by OCR.
- tiddly.packett.cool is a storage and sync solution for TiddlyWiki that turns it into a modern offline-first web app with client-side encryption!
- ~2d-ocr by @ckolbeck aims to enable folks who rely on alt text to navigate through things like images of tables.
The World of WebXR 🥽
- ~juegosdevestirgratis by @anticristo-666 is an art project, or maybe a game, but even if I tried to describe it here, you wouldn’t believe me.
- ~aframe-spatial-ui by @dmarcos is a multi-layered WebXR experience that even features one of our faves: Hayao Miyazaki, built with A-Frame and Glitch!
- ~misc-calcs by @dtcwee is a collection of useful JavaScript created calculators
Miscellaneous, but we stan 🙌
- ~scammersworld by @joinity is a project dedicated to exposing NFT scammers and giving back to the community.
- ~musical-tarot by @adam.czibere45080 lets you draw a card to get your reading and an accompanying musical recommendation to inform your vibe for today!
- ~aramzs created by @AramZS is a new glitch in bio (seeing these in the wild never gets old to us)!
~blueridge by @dschep is a little art project inspired by the Blue Ridge Mountains. (Hint: these mountain ridges are different on each load!)
Artistic Endeavors 🖼️
- ~creating-with-data.glitch.me/connecting-atlantic/index.html created by @digitalWestie is a great animated visualization of the progression of trans-atlantic undersea telegraph cables
- ~newtons-disc by @rowan-m is an online optical illusion that slightly differs from the IRL optical illusion, can you tell??
- ~tanzaku by @koya.drill lets you create a digital wish on a coloured strip of paper called tanzaku and hang it up on bamboo to celebrate the Tanabata Star Festival.
- ~storehouse-a created by @bookwormgirl910 and @stsche is a text and typography-based virtual exhibition showcasing interactive visual poetry inspired by the lexicon of NetHack.
- ~curator-and-the-machine created by @stefan is not a new project but was recently added to fediverse, so we’re happy to feature it again! Try out curating now or read the blog post behind this generative art project.
And that’s a wrap on another amazing month for the Glitch community! Follow us across the open social web 🌐
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*The project featured in this post’s header image is ~futureroom by @blippypixel is like if Geocities was a virtual room. Look for the lava lamp!