Floating Heads and Musical Machines

#Remix4Change to Empower Black Voters #

We've partnered with Color of Change on an online hackathon called #Remix4Change. The aim is simple: empower Black voters by turning technology into power. Color of Change has built an app that displays a list of your local representatives, along with current bills in your state categorized by bail, police, prison, or discrimination - all issues with long term effects on some of the lives of people in your community.

How would you customize this app to help people know about proposed legislation or where your city's representatives stand on the issues that matter most? The app is ready for remixing; submit your version of the app by August 26, and we'll share the best entries on social media! You got this!

Quotes from #

NBC's is a smash-hit comedy. It's spawned some memorable characters and quotes, and it's beloved by critics and fans all over the world.

Klaudia Rozgonyiova (@EffingKay), a software developer at the BBC, loves the show too and created a Glitch app that displays random quotes. Just click on Tahani to get started!

This Is What It Sounds Like When Machines Learn #

A lot of machine learning is about curve-fitting, and tuning a guitar is a lot like curve-fitting too! That got Pablo Samuel Castro thinking. 🤔

The senior research software engineer at Google created "sound-of-learning", where you can literally hear a guitar being tuned as a machine learns how to create a satisfying E chord! 🎸

Metadata via the Medium API #

Ghana-based software developer Clinton Mbah put together a useful little utility app that grabs a list of articles for any Medium user. Just add a username to the end of the URL (like so!) and "mdm" will return the posts of any Medium user in JSON format. Handy!

Heading into Augmented Reality #

Interaction designer Joel Gethin Lewis, created an augmented reality web app that puts a recreation of his head out into the world! 🤯

Created in WebXR, a proposed cross-platform Web API for creating AR and VR experiences, it needs Mozilla's experimental WebXR Viewer on iOS to run. But it's totally worth getting and playing around with to get a glimpse of the future (so long as you have the right kit!)

Whac-emoji! #

We're no strangers to an emoji or two here at Glitch, so it'll come as no surprise that we love "whac-emoji"! Created by Berlin-based Glitch user 1337core, it combines emojis with a 'whack-a-mole' type game. You'll be flattening 👻, and crushing 🦂 for hours. Just make sure that you don't bash a 👶 though!

This week's creators show that by sharing our creations with the world we can make people laugh, show folks new ways of doing things, and even give people the information they need to improve their lives. So Tharp might be right -- creativity can be tough, but it's definitely something worth fighting for!