Last month on Glitch, the May 2023 edition

June is about to be a very exciting month for the Glitch community! But before we get to that, you know we have to celebrate all of the cool things that were created in May. From mythical monsters to time travel to playing with custom domains, the Glitch community was very busy building, experimenting, and making the web a blast.

Speaking of custom domains, special shout out to all of the folks who participated in the community testing last month. You all helped us to make Glitch and Fastly even better for building with and we can’t wait to show you how. If you missed out on that fun, don’t worry! There will be another round of community testing coming soon to try out Fastly features on Glitch apps from within the Glitch editor. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, share your interest by commenting on this sneak peek thread in our community forum!

Cool Tools 😎

~biking-in-chicago by @etsinger gives you the lowdown on the issues facing bikers in the Chicago area.
~creating-with-data.glitch.me/shirt-designer by @digitalWestie and @petra89962 uses generative art to create some shirts people would truly love to buy!
~archive-stumbler created by @ckolderup lets you explore the Internet Archive in a “Stumble Upon” style.
~gh-pages by @domfarolino is a useful tool for remembering how many static pages you’ve deployed to GitHub.

*~succession-generator created by @derekahmedzai lets you hold *onto your emotional support billionaires’ toxic family drama just a tad longer.

Fun and Games 👾

~minigamesbyjess created by @jessameliasilver is the perfect way to kick off your Friday, with a variety of fun mini games.
~notsoterriblestory by @sjsbutterfly is a fun “choose your own adventure” style game.
~poetechnics-transfluxions created by @ryanhgreene1 is a fascinating collection of poems, diagrams, and figures from Yaxkin Melchy’s "constellation book" called EL NUEVO MUNDO or THE NEW WORLD.
~pale-reliable-fog by @aagunasekaran will keep you on your toes.
~word-mastermind created by @clupasq a fun word guessing ga—….it’s wordle, it’s a wordle clone and I just now realized.

_~mythical-creatures by @mapsmania lets you wander the world of cryptids at your own peril!!

Nice and notable apps 🏆

~wswjp by @Flench04 and @sutherland.creations details racism facing the Douglas County School District.
~timetravel-streetview by @mapsmania is not a new app, but allows you to now travel to Los Angeles in 2100.
~birds-eye-quebec created by @mapsmania takes you over Sherbrooke, Quebec circa 1881.
~cubshomegametoday created by @jbouvier is like a Magic 8 Ball for Chicago Cubs fans.
~tbb-links by @triangleblogblog is a cool Glitch in Bio app for Triangle Blog Blog fans.

*~galaxykate-arvr-aframe by @galaxykate gives you a chance to play around with WebXR, remix it and give it a try!

This is art! 🖼️

~paint-it-timelapse created by @new.in.twon is a soothing timelapse painting of whatever you choose!
~incantationbowl by @olee0114 lets you unearth a 3D incantation bowl from ancient Mesopotamia.
~strange-attraction created by @rowan-m is another satisfying project that creates beautiful art generated by math that you can shuffle to your heart’s content.

And that’s a wrap on another amazing month for the Glitch community! Follow us across the open social web 🌐

You can still send your projects and playlists to us via the community forum, 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 ~bikebus created by @daniel73473 for the Chicago metro area, not the Milwaukee area—but if there is a Milwaukee bike bus we would love to know about it!