Last month on Glitch, the September 2023 edition
Let’s face it, September was full of fails. Travelers tried to put their pets through TSA’s x-ray machines. Americans discovered that they’ve never even heard of the best flavors made by KitKat. And to top it all off, it took New Jersey police two weeks to capture a loose alligator. On the other hand, sometimes it all depends on how you look at things. It’s possible that in these fails, family pets discovered a love of flying, US citizens learned they could order KitKats (like Churro flavored ones!!) online, and one alligator had the best summer vacation of its life.
We’ve definitely been trying to look at things a different way at Glitch. If you haven’t heard yet, we’ve been testing out a new site. You can check it out at **preview.glitch.co**m and visit the Glitch community forum where we’re asking for your feedback, sharing sneak peeks, and giving the community as many updates as we can churn out to keep up with your ideas!
Speaking of updates, seeing Andy Dilallo’s new Glitch in Bio reminds me that we recently pushed a bunch of updates to the Glitch in Bio starter, so if you want to implement them, be sure to read Keith Kurson’s update on the forum. And now, your feature presentation, the very cool things the Glitch community built in September!
Tools to try ⚒️
- ~postmarks by @ckolderup is an ActivityPub bookmarking and sharing site that you can customize easily by remixing!
- ~pipesmarks by @andypiper is their remix of Postmarks, seriously you should try it!
- ~ossified-cooing-script by @jwgabriel55 is a cool
demo template you can use to quickly see your 3D models online. - ~minimal-i18n-library by @janmonschke is not a new app, but a very important one that’s making the rounds again.
*~conant-gasket, created by @christianp, is a visualization of the Conant Gasket, which I’ve just learned is a “particular configuration of vertical and horizontal unit segments drawn between *adjacent points in the non-negative integer grid.” M. Douglas McIlroy.
Art We Heart 🩷
- ~discover-music is a free app created by the University of York, aimed at helping people find music makers and music makers to find people.
- ~best-practices by @n.hieda and @guevarajorge is an in-progress project called “Stage for Digital, Contagious, and Networked Bodies and Code++” (SFDCANBAC++) which allows audience members to participate in the ephemeral experience of bodies, colorful objects, live-coding and glittering pixels continuously changing their constellations on the stage.
- ~audiogram created by @tennyson, is a browser-based version of NY Public Radio app that lets you create shareable waveform animations right in the browser!
*~moldy-world, by @swimygraphics, is an incredible collection of moldy foods, kept updated.
The Weird and Wonderful Web 😜
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~hakko by @ooooootasora4321 and @ootaoota0038, is a collection of “memos” capturing varying scenes of human life — it’s a very interesting read!
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~streets-of-winchelsea by @mapsmania is a variation of San Francisco Street Names, which also inspired yet another interactive map game, ~london-park-names, so if you love map games, welcome to this rabbit hole!
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~lace-difficult-trombone, also known as Scrubstack, created by @elankiderman, finds a random Substack for you to read. (Note: Substacks are unmoderated, and may contain harmful stuff; browse at your own risk.)
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~fissh, created by @goatlizardmail, is a web fish! Kinda… Learn something new today! 🎶
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~mus-cog-matters is a podcast series, hosted on Glitch, which focuses on promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative music cognition research.
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~mnist-demo, by @bwasti1, is a demo which uses WebAssembly and Loop Tool.js to create an in-browser algebra compiler.
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We saw this cool VR tutorial going around, and discovered that it featured ~artutexample by @emmettbaber. It’s a quick watch so check it out!
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~peptide-blend-calculator, by @dregsow is a calculator that helps you in finding end dosage amounts when combining multiple peptides of potentially different amounts into a single vial/dose. And that’s a wrap on another amazing month for the Glitch community! Follow us across the open social web 🌐
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@glitch on Twitter 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 ~flatvend, which looks like a work of art, and is also @Jakehill3’s portfolio of digital zines. Check them out!