May 2024 on Glitch: Moving and Learning!
By Jenn Turner

June 27, 2024

May 2024 on Glitch: Moving and Learning!

Dearest Gentle Reader, so much has happened since our last community recap! The latest season of Bridgerton returned, the summer solstice arrived and along with it the longest day of the year, and I finally learned the difference between poison ivy and the ivy that grows all over my garden. But more importantly, the changing of seasons and ending of school years brought us even more creative creations from you—the Glitch community!

Before we highlight those, I need to give a shout-out to a Glitch OG, (original Glitcher) Khaleel Gibran. Last month, I had the chance to profile him and his illustrious stretch as the number one prankster of our community director. Make sure to give that a read.

XOXO, an experimental festival celebrating independent artists and creators working on the internet (sound familiar), announced the return of Art + Code, sponsored by Glitch! We’re very excited to be a part of the final XOXO and proud that former event speaker and Glitch Community Director Jenn Schiffer is co-hosting. If you were lucky enough to snag a ticket, you are in for a treat this August! And we’ll share highlights here for everyone — let us know if there are Art + Code creations we should shout out!

Finally, the very first 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good took place last month, and if you happened to miss it, not to worry, you can watch all of the sessions on YouTube. After the event, creator and maintainer Zach Leatherman announced that he was taking 11ty independent in order to work on it full-time, but needs your help in fundraising to make that possible! We love 11ty, and if you haven’t tried it, give one of our starter apps a spin to see for yourself how fun it can be.

Community Code Jams Teach a Thing 📚 #

Last month’s community code jam focused on using Glitch to teach a thing, about anything, to anyone! It’s where the header for this blog post came from ~teach-in-glitch, created by @SueSmith, which you can remix to use Glitch to teach with! Here are a few other examples of what the community taught us in May!

~deconfiguration by @duwcoxtpt lists the many ways you can factory reset routers, switches, access points, etc. broken down by vendors, and even includes a handy cables guide.

This month’s prompt: Rainbows 🌈 #

There’s still time to get your project in for this month’s Community Code Jame by visiting glitch.com/jams or watching the kickoff livestream from earlier this month.

💎 The Masterpieces of May 💎 #

The latest from @mapsmania is ~guess-this-city, a fun geoguessr game that changes, so you have to return each day to guess a new city, and test your trip memory!

In May, That Virtual Boy said “hello” to Wallgenie, a wallpaper generator that uses DALL•E to create original, hi-resolution portrait style wallpapers, with Glitch as their backend.

~state-preserving-atomic-move, created by @domfarolino and @noamr, is a demo of the experimental Node#moveBefore() API, try it out to test preserving DOM state across element moves and reparenting!

Jazz up your passwords with ~create-a-jazzword by @holgerkurtz. Thank goodness Ryan Gosling saved jazz all those years ago in La La Land, so that we could cool Glitch apps like this, all these years later!

~square-kiwi-quartz, by @mapsmania, is a candy-colored jumble of dancing shapes. You have to move quick to take a screenshot, because they appear and disappear at random!

~twitter-bookmarklet, created by @OmarSamehShehata, allows you to open any Twitter profile, then click on the bookmarklet to show all your interactions with said profile chronologically! And yes, we subscribe to the “it’s still Twitter” school of thought.

Remember ~maps-and-splats? Creator @kfarr is at it again, this time demonstrating how to use A-Frame with the Variant Launch WebAR SDK to enable WebXR on iOS!

~spurious-violet-carnation, a.k.a. The Summer Anne Burton Digital Jukebox Experience by @SummerAnneBurton, is the best type of profile site: a jukebox style arrangement of her favorite Spotify playlists, just in time for summer.

~audio-caster by @kevin-huff is a handy tool for all you Twitch streamers; it’s a Node app that lets you share your desktop audio to a separate page. Bookmark, and enjoy!

It’s so important to prioritize health and self care, so this ~breathing-guide app by @LiljuLéandre making the rounds on social media makes us so happy! I don’t know about you all, but breathing is the best.

~french-by-definition by @chrishughallen is a beautifully designed app for learning French and I will resist the urge to humiliate my French-Canadian ancestors by saying something like “ooh la la” because that would be cringey.

~svg-copy-paste by @tomayac is a very cool demo of SVG being copied/pasted in this demo for SVG support in the Async Clipboard API.

Created by PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, @jinadotcom, this online essay is an experimental form of academic text sharing that makes you want to explore, ponder, and click on absolutely everything.

~tone-mapping by @elalish, remixes the ~model-viewer app in order to interactively test out tone mapping, where you can adjust exposure in addition to comparing the different function results.

And hey, we started with a teaching app, so let’s close out strong with another one! ~evas-mandarin-flashcards by @evamarok teaches simple Mandarin phrases with cute flash cards. Try it out!

Connect with Glitch #

If you haven’t yet, follow us across the open social web 🌐

If you’re sharing your project on the web, use the hashtag #MadeWithGlitch so we can find it. As always, you can 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!

Moving on 📦 #

I can’t remember how it came up in conversation, but I once found myself faced with the question of “how many times have you moved in your adult life?” I took that to mean post-high school, and the last time I counted it was something like seventeen times. Too many. I hope that the volume of my moves is behind me now, since I think we can all agree, moving sucks. But this game doesn’t. ~moving-back-in, by @dutois.lilian is a VR Game that talks about reconnecting with your childhood while you unpack boxes in your childhood bedroom. It’s a sweet game that captures an uncertain moment in time, that I think we can all have an appreciation for. And good luck if you’re moving this season!!