Last month on Glitch, the May 2022 edition
What gives something the quality of being dreamy? Maybe you picture being in a through the looking glass type of pastel and foggy environment similar to somewhere real, but not quite right. Maybe you’re flying through space and time with superhuman abilities. Or maybe, you’re somewhere relaxing, with no one calling, texting, or asking you to be anything to anyone at all. That’s the thing about dreams — they’re different for everyone. Yet, somehow the Glitch community managed to make May a very dreamy month with both new and existing projects that made us stop to take some much needed time away from our collective realities.
While you were dreaming, here are some very real and cool things that happened with Glitch. First, we joined Fastly! It’s a very exciting opportunity for both the product and the Glitch community and we can’t wait to tell you more about the road ahead. We also changed up the login process for those of you who joined Glitch with a Facebook account. No worries! Your account won’t change, you just have to update it. Read the full announcement,_ after_ you’ve seen all the very rad things created in May. 😏
Artistic Expressions 🎨
- ~draw-your-world by @enauman is a really inspiring project where p5.js is used to draw different elements from photos of the real world!
- ~strangely comes across the feed occasionally as @rowan-m updates it. Very satisfying :)
- ~lilcode-3dspace by @cafeinternet is a cool, chaotic 3D environment
- ~windowpane by @leannefthuang is an “examination of the self through art historical cultural ties, to better understand myself and myself as part of the Asian American diaspora.”
- ~conwaygameoflife-twitter-embed by @johuber is the iconic zero-player game, made to be embedded in a tweet!
- ~dream-geography by @niall84571 is a dreamy record of the places they’ve visited in their dreams.
The Newest in Glitch in Bios 🏆
- thatkatharine.glitch.me - They learned how to do rounded corners in CSS for this, so that’s pretty awesome.
- m4g3.glitch.me is a Glitch in Bio with a cool, spacey goth theme.
- ~betterbandpod by @brandenpalomo is a Glitch in Bio for a Pearl Jam podcast!
*~ridiculous-silly-header is @jessevondoom’s step-by-step process demo of the rainbow text on the Glitch homepage!
Miscellaneous and necessary!! 🤠
- ~heropetz by @jojo080889 is a 90s style Petz fan site. It looks so good!
- ~a11y-bingo by @ollicle and @alex.day is an accessibility (a11y) bingo card
- We’ve shared this before, but it’s making the rounds again: ~phd-template by @aandreev0 is a really great template for generating welcome letters to (PhD) students and setting lab expectations.
- ~birds-eye-cards is another great project from the folks at @bplmaps that presents a visual pattern system of aerial images.
**The World of WebXR 🖼 **
- We love this lil character, ~invisibleq by @luarnmama
- ~carfig by @JacobWaites is an adorable, vibrant scene for a car color chooser made in Spline! Spline even gave it some praise!
- And for the bike riders, the folks at Needle created ~needle-bike to demonstrate realtime exploration of 3D models and mock-ups – built in Unity and published on Glitch!
~like-like by @elankiderman is a really amazing tool for wandering through Twitter. Our friend Tom calls it “a beautiful meditation.”
Cool tools 🛠
- ~citibikes by @LouisMinsky helps you find Citibike locations with ebikes. Follow @citibikestats on Twitter if you’re an NYC local and want to know the latest.
- ~scoreboard-ultimate by @philiprenich is a minimal, sweet scoreboard tracker
- ~yellow-somber-bobolink by @catherineomega was built to help someone who has lost their voice save themselves some words.
- ~yunai-movenet by @NadiaPiet is a Master thesis project using machine learning to detect yoga poses!
- ~riverriverriver by @mipmckeever is a no-code version of their tool for storing, searching and displaying news wires.
~pathway-generator by @carolynlimadeo is a very sweet learning pathway generator, and you can remix it to add your own tools for more personal speculative futures!
Fun and games 🕹
- Looks like ~spicy-snowy-starfish was the winner of the #100devs coding competition! (Credits are in app) 🍕
- ~goodbye-monster by @beckett is a browser-based pet sim made as a class project so it may not be openly accessible but you can see screenshots in this tweet.
- ~your-first-tech-job by @aTylerRobertson is a “persistently online multiplayer game of Espionage.”
- We** love** this: ~choose-budget-dinner by @snotskie is an app that helps you and others you meal plan with decide on dinners together.
From soothing stories about dreams, to seeing big cities from a bird's eye view, or dreaming about not having to decide what’s for dinner, we’re a big fan of what you all imagine and create with Glitch! 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 ~of-touch by @melaniehoff and @amyfang123 and we highly recommend you click and drag around this beautiful interactive poem!