Last month on Glitch, the September 2022 edition

September just hits different. There’s something in the air. Beyoncé was born this month, and so was Zendaya. Our own fearless leader Anil Dash was born in September, but keeping with the eponymous icons, so were Playlists. That’s right, last September we launched Playlists! Have you created a playlist yet? Share some of your favorites with us in the latest community open thread.

Open thread? Aren’t most forums open threads? No, they aren’t but we’re glad you asked. We realized there wasn’t really an option in our forum for a watercooler-getting to know you-regular old chat. So boom, open threads began! Each week the Glitch team wants to know who you are, what you’re creating, and what you think is interesting, so join us!

Lastly, if you’ve missed hearing from the @glitchdevs Twitter account, not to worry! You can still keep up with what the Glitch devs are thinking about and building by following @FastlyDevs, so make sure to follow, like and subscribe! And now for our regularly scheduled programming. ✨

🎭 Arts and Entertainment

• ~godard-plot-generator by @samplereality is a Godard film plot generator built with Tracery!
• ~cardinales-y-romanos is a journal of sorts by @v.isforvioleta, with their words beautifully drenched in the Hydra-synth powered visuals in the background.
• ~ashley-aka-wyrm is the Glitch-in-bio of writer/editor @peripatetic.poetic
• ~taylor-swift-midnights by @derekahmedzai is an album cover generator in celebration of Taylor Swift’s upcoming album.
• ~kanjibreak by @fasiha enables collaborative breakdowns of kanji!

*This ring light app by @aTylerRobertson has a color picker so you’re not stuck with just white light!

😎 Cool Tools

• ~get-a-recent-bill-from-congress by @airbr uses the new API from Congress.gov to show recent Congressional bills.
• ~nomore24 by @vickiniu was created to help others push the movement to end the 24-hour workday for home attendants in New York City.
• ~lookout-keeper was created by @StuartHoughton85754 to help keep his loved one, suffering from dementia, safe.
• ~what-colour-is-that is an app @christianp built to help with identifying colors when you’re colorblind.

*~wave-rebel-albacore is @potch goofing around with combining 2D marching squares and n-d meta balls

👾 Virtual Game Time

• ~nethack by @huytd is a retro-style in-browser SSH client to play Nethack
• ~loc-photo-roulette by @lwrubel is a game where you guess the year of a randomly shown photo from the Library of Congress.
• ~fake-soaps by @mharen asks you if you can find a fake soap among this list of scents 🎃
• ~camogen by @aceslowman is an in-browser (and in-progress) environment for creating WebGL visuals.
• ~tasteful-boom-oatmeal by @marwie demos Google’s text-to-3D model generator, DreamFusion.
• ~maze-cube by @mitch.c.allen lets you get lost in a maze this spooky season without the chill or muddy boots.

_~needle-fonts-sample by @marwie answers the question on everyone_’s minds: Where are the project’s fonts automatically exported from??????

👽 Miscellaneous, but necessary!

• Fan of Critical Role? Check out ~critrolefic, a Critical Role fic generator by @avasalvarez.
• ~imagine-bamboo by @edie generates a bamboo field from tweets, a great way to belated celebrate #WorldBambooDay
• ~creating-with-data by @digitalWestie is a dart board showing software industry companies in Edinburgh over the years.
• ~the-queue by @aTylerRobertson is a queue simulator for you know what reason...
• Also by Tyler is this much needed pep talk: ~am-i-doing-this-right

With September firmly in the past, spooky season (or szn, if you like) is now upon us! Please send us your favorite haunted apps and projects so we can—most importantly— love them, but also share them with the Glitch community. 👻

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 ~duck-color created by @rsheeter which allows you to express yourself with the full range of RGB in the shape of a duck emoji. Enjoy!