Last month on Glitch, the November 2022 edition

We made it! The year’s not quite over but this is the final monthly roundup for the Glitch community, because we have a special surprise for you all next month—but more about that later. With so many things to celebrate during this last month of 2022, we wanted to take the opportunity to look back over the past year and reflect on what makes Glitch so special: the Glitch community!

So for the rest of the year, we’d love for you to join us in celebrating a season of gratitude! All month long, we’ll be sharing our thankfulness for the many creators, projects, contributions, and communities that make up the weird and wonderful world of Glitch.

We also made it even easier to thank creators, by adding a “Thanks” button to profiles. So join us by thanking the creators of your favorite projects, or by sharing your own thoughts, thanks, or bravos on our community forum!

And now, for some of the absolute standout projects of November:

Miscellaneous, but necessary 🤠

• ~dev-null by @ckolbeck helps us scream into the void.
• ~troyperrycerealreviews, which initially we thought read “troy perceives cereal” reviews cereal flavors, which is basically the same thing.
• ~salty-admin is a humorous IT blog by @sara-di. It’s in German, but it’s worth translating!
• ~glowy-earthquakes is an earthquake map built by @RalucaNicola a while ago, and reentered our insights radar after it got a lovely shout out by Mapsmania.

*~random-trees-in-circles by @chri*stianp is exactly what the project name is hehe

The Arts 🎭

• ~marbled-paper by @nonphoto lets you create digital marbled paper.
• ~beat-coder by @michaelxbarrett helps you make cool beats!
• ~cute-grey-juice by @hitode909 is a really cool emoji background generator to use for your next big video call!

*~winning-solitaire-rainbow by @forrest you can relive the nostalgia of winning solitaire but with more rainbow!

Fun and games 🎉

• ~the-devils-cafe is a trippy game based on a dream that @gatta.lauren once had

• ~towns-challenge by @bplmaps challenges your knowledge of Massachusetts town names

• ~discodance by @monolesan is an nft collection of dances which are made with the power of AI and your very own dance moves!  Cool tools 😎

• ~fedifinder by @luca has been tweeted about probably thousands of times as people share that they’re using it to find their online friends on different Mastodon instances. Also from @luca, ~mastovue for searching Mastodon instances for hashtags (like #madewithGlitch)!

• ~exuberant-judicious-popcorn by @ShrimpandGits gives users daily creative prompts for building maps

• ~dfk-ap by @dariusk lets you debug as you’re on your ActivityPub development journey.

• ~critrolefic by @avasalvarez is a critical role fanfic generator that gives you a (friend)ship, a location, and a trope—you decide what happens next!

The featured Glitch in Bio above is from the Media Archaeology Lab, a community-driven hub for preserving and exploring the history of technology.

New Glitch in Bio sites 😍

• links.aboutmonica.com
• ~adamroy
• ~stegans-links
• ~rebeccawilliams And speaking of Glitch in Bio, we’ve seen a lot of new ones recently with folks looking for a way to create their own personal site to point to their various online homes. To make it extra helpful for these new Glitch community members, Jenn Schiffer, Director of Community at Glitch, and Anil Dash, head of Glitch jumped on a livestream last week to show folks step by step how to create their own site.

Recently joined the Glitch in Bio bandwagon? Let us know and we’ll give your site a shout out!

📣 Call for nominations for Last Year on Glitch 2022 ✨

So that’s another month on Glitch that we’ve had the honor of summarizing and here we are in December, the end of the year. That means it’s time to look back on the last year on Glitch, but we need your help!

We’re bringing back the second annual Last Year on Glitch, where we celebrate the best, brightest, inspiring, educational, hilarious, and thoughtful projects on Glitch. Have a project that inspired you to build something or take up a hobby? See something on Glitch that brightened your day so much, you just had to share it? Learned a cool skill from a demo or tutorial? Let us know by submitting your nominations to us now!

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 ~low-rustic-baron, a game designed, colored, and created by @scottsb and his 3 year-old daughter.