For most people building the internet today, the hardest part of coding is all the non-code barriers that stand in the way — from overly-complex technical requirements to exclusionary social and cultural factors that keep people from being able to create. This stands in contrast to the “no code” or low-code vision, which has often been based upon the idea that actual coding is the hard part, and should be hidden away or tucked behind a different UI.

But coding, done right, is a superpower. It’s not just a way of communicating with a computer or a compiler: it’s a way of communicating with a community, and of connecting to other people. The millions of people who’ve shown up to create on Glitch, and the millions more who’ve used the apps those creators have built, are testimony to the potential of that idea. I summarized some of this a few years ago in one of our earlier posts about Yes Code:

[A] Yes Code tool can create something unexpected, can talk to a legacy system that hasn't been updated in years, lets you try out a brand new framework or technology that you're discovering, and lets you reuse the billions of lines of code that already exist in the world.

And this fundamental, empowering idea of “Yes Code” matters more than ever now that AI’s transformation of the discipline of coding is rapidly accelerating. Now more than ever, the hard part of coding is not the code — it’s the connection to community.

As with all new technologies these days, the attention around AI and LLMs (large language models) and machine learning is a combination of genuinely interesting new capabilities and genuinely ridiculous hype. The exact ratio of value vs. hype depends a lot on your own personal perspective, but at Glitch we have a strong bias towards wanting to make choices that age well over time, and to make technical decisions that endure. 

From that standpoint, we do think AI assistance for coders is going to be an increasingly standard and pervasive part of coding workflows (I’m old enough to remember when we first got smart completion in our IDEs!) but we also think that the widespread accessibility of these tools will make more people into coders. Or put another way, it will make more people who are coders realize that they are coders. We’ve long said that anyone who ever made a really complex spreadsheet formula, or who hacked on a Neopets or MySpace website back in the day, or who installed an advanced Minecraft mod — they’re all coders! And a lot of people who have fallen out of the daily coding world, or who struggle to keep up with the relentless pace of advancement in things like JavaScript frameworks, will be more able to find the time to create when they have LLM tools to help them do it.

But what we’re not doing is presuming to choose your tools for you. We think there’s power, and value, in enabling our ecosystem to bring all of these new tools together, to compare and contrast their strengths and weaknesses, and especially to identify the things that AI tools are not good at, so we can help debug those problems collectively. For example, while a lot of commercial offerings in the coding AI space get a lot of attention, it’s just as important that open source or community-led tools be a vibrant part of the ecosystem — especially since we can see how they work, and know how their models have been trained. It’s really important that one or two companies don’t control the whole ecosystem, and communities of coders can be a powerful countermeasure that ensures that the AI markets stays competitive as it matures. Because we’re still in the early days of AI-assisted coding!

Recently, Clive Thompson (who’s long been augmenting his journalism with apps built on Glitch and other platforms), wrote “Why ChatGPT won’t replace coders just yet”, showing off how he built a todo-list app in 15 minutes using Glitch and ChatGPT. It’s exciting! But Clive reaches the conclusion that the splashy new AI tool ultimately serves to “help me quickly blast through boilerplate code so I can more quickly get to the tricky bits”. And that matches the experience we’ve heard from lots of coders — these new tools will accelerate experimentation by taking care of the drudgery, but they’re not nearly as good at the parts that have to do with innovation or the unexpected.

This is why community and connection and trust matter as much in the new world of AI-assisted coding as training models or prompt engineering. Teaching new coders, or teaching experienced coders about new tools, is going to require learning about intellectual property and permissions and how code can be ethically reused just as much as it’s going to be about the latest and greatest frameworks or programming languages. But these things can be a lot easier to figure out if you’re not doing it alone. And that goes back to the story we’ve been saying since the first day of the Glitch community, which just passed its six year anniversary since our launch: we make the internet better by lowering the barriers to creation, and letting everyone code together.

So I’ll close the same way I did a few years ago, when we first started publicly talking about the “yes code” idea:

There are cutting-edge areas like machine learning and bots and augmented reality that will never quite fit into a template, and there are millions of coders around the world who want to work together to put their unique coding superpowers to use for solving meaningful problems at work, at home, or in society.

We’re excited that Glitch is the place where so many are exploring these new tools together, and more than ever, we want to hear our community’s vision for how we all team up to make sure that every who creates with code is empowered by new AI tools to build a better internet.

“Yes Code” is how coding evolves with AI

Just like Danny DeVito, February is always short and sweet so once again we find ourselves with another month of Glitch projects to share with the community. Real quick, in Glitch news the Eleventy starter app was updated to use version 2.0.0 and it continues to be our favorite way to get an Eleventy site going quickly! 

Last thing—did you know that Glitch is on dev.to? Follow us over there to get updates and maybe, just maybe, a sneak peek at our monthly newsletter (maybe). Otherwise, let’s take a look at all of the cool things the Glitch community built in February!

This is SO cool! 😎Someone shared this Three.js audio reactive shader in the community forum using their open source tool Shader Park and they host their core examples on Glitch!

This is the story of how code saved an end of life game controller with a little help from WebHID, the Gamepad API and Glitch. 

~piano-genie, while not new, is making the rounds again! Created by @notwaldorf, it’s an intelligent controller that maps 8-button input to a full 88-key piano in real time!

Join us in learning about alternatives to policing in the United States with this interactive guide, created by the @seattle-abolition-support team.

If you need more Daleks in your day-to-day life, check out this VR experience created by @bobarke.

Thanks to @blippypixel you can confidently attempt to balance your levels in VR with this virtual mixing board ~music10000ar.

Brunch plans or pizza parties will be that much easier to plan with ~middle-point-calc, created by @idobackup1 which helps find the middle point of up to 5 locations to meet up with friends! 

Craving a first person space experience? ~opening-scene by @iamrishav2006 hosts 4 different 3d astronaut journeys for you to embark on! 

This recreation of a sunset in Cinta Costera created by @rosapark0328 in ~cinta is so charming that we really want to go there.

~at-tumblr-links is a tool that converts Tumblr links back to their original permalinks so the original previews load when they’re shared on social media. 

It’s always neat to see Glitch pop up in new places, like this project ~3d-model-embed-html simulating the foundations of asphalt roadways featured in an article touting the benefits of plastic roads over asphalt.

Follow us on the fediverse at @glitch@mastodon.social where you can share Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature! You can still send them to us via the community forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup!

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~cloudwatching created by Chia Amisola and is part of a wider series of simulations titled, When We Love. 

Last month on Glitch, the February 2023 edition

Interest in the fediverse has never been greater, and we’re so excited for the opportunity to support a decentralized, creative community building the web together. If you’re new to the fediverse, or federated social networks, there are several fantastic explainers available but here are a few of our favorites to help you get started.

Mastodon’s docs site: Learn how the fediverse works, how to sign up for a server, and how to use the API to customize your experience. 

Fedi.Garden: A curated site featuring servers on Mastodon and across the fediverse that are open to the public and practice responsible moderation 

Fedi.Tips: The “unofficial” guide to Mastodon and the fediverse that answers your questions from getting started to accessibility, to running your own instance and more!

The fediverse is one of the latest examples of the way moving toward a more open web experience benefits us all! We’re excited to share that Fast Forward—Fastly’s program supporting open source initiatives and communities—has recently added Mastodon as one of their latest program members. Mastodon is one of the most popular decentralized social networking platforms, but by far not the only one. In fact, there are multiple standardized, open protocols that implement federation, such as Activity Pub, the one used by Mastodon.

The Glitch community has already been busily building new tools and apps to help folks get started, create creative bots, and make the fediverse so much more interesting and we want to share them with you. Bookmark this post so you can tinker with them, or create a playlist of your favorites to try! 

🎏 Fediverse community and posting tools

~fediring - static site generator that builds a linked ring of verified fediverse profiles, used by creator to make

~bottlenose-bubble-talon - Fediverse webring

~fedifinder - using your twitter account, search the fediverse for the handles of people you follow (our most viral app)

~yesindex - indexes posts (affectionately called toots) from your mutuals

~small-languid-centipede is a tool that allows you to search your local instance timeline using hashtags. 

~fedibotto  - create a Mastodon bot with this starter

~stefans-creative-bots.glitch.me - a unique collection of bots to both follow and remix

~tinysubversions - build your own Fediverse bot server

~dailyquotes - masto bot that posts…daily quotes

~fortune-wide-class - generates random posts using tracery

~please-caption-mastodon - bot that reminds you to use image descriptions because accessibility helps us all

~owncast-mastodon-announce - post your Go Live events from your Owncast to the fediverse

👉 ActivityPub Projects besides Mastodon

~activitypub-starter-kit - get started with activitypub!

~activitypub - a very helpful debugging tool for activitypub

~suave-knowledgeable-crepe - convert rss to activitypub 

~activitypub-viewer - view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON

~activitypub-json-feed - ActivityPub outboxes into reformatted JSON feeds, inspired by micro.blog

~walnut-hail-cloche - a single instance server, remix it to create your own!

~microblog-sidebarjs-css remix to experiment with style.css to style your micro.blog feed from Sidebar.js!

https://glitch.com/@andypiper/fediverse-fun

https://glitch.com/@Luca/discovering-the-fediverse

https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness - which has been updated to include everything recommended above!

Have you created something for the fediverse? Let us know so we can share it here, add it to a playlist, or feature it on the blog. Reach out to us @glitchdotcom@mastodon.social and let us know!

Exploring the apps and playlists on Glitch that the community has built to help you build your timelines, share your posts, and enable you to build your own tools for connecting to this decentralized social community.

The Glitch Community’s Guide to Building the Fediverse

Time is a curious thing. There are so many phrases about the passage of it, from “time flies when you’re having fun” to “time is money” and countless others. Standard time was only introduced in the 1880s, so many generations before ours could have experienced it in totally different ways! Whatever your attitude toward time is, January has passed so now it’s time for another roundup of creative Glitch community endeavors.

But first, we launched the Last Year on Glitch 2022 roundup full of beautiful, fun, inspiring and technically incredible apps from the community which you chose! We also managed to sneak a fun update into the editor—the ability to drag and drop. Try it out and let us know what you think in the latest community open thread.

Lastly, we’re looking forward to hiring for a summer internship (paid), so if you’re pursuing an undergraduate degree and able to commit to a 12 week internship between May and August, please apply! 

~library-of-colors by @blprnt is a beautiful visualization of the Library of Congress’ digital catalog of books, maps, music, visual materials, computer files and manuscripts. Read more about their process (and inspiration!) in this blog post. 

~flytai-sartsite is @alleynet1's art portfolio site, full of some really cool stuff!

~onearthasitisinwater is a collaborative art project by @choksixuan centered by the collaborators’ “mutual interests in ecological phenomena, magical realism, and the act of being still amidst change.”

~hodgepodge-jakub-vronsky by @jakubvronsky is an interactive artwork, “A response to spending 5 hours at New Kingsley Road, Bristol. 24 Photos of window frames, randomly composited to reflect the hodgepodge of architecture, providing a sense of space.”

~wiptheory created by @norman is an exhibition series called "Unfinished" to celebrate the idea that concepts and experiments can be art too.

~the-cube-puzzle is a puzzle room created by @robyer1 that was made to be experienced in multiplayer VR.

~needle-build-pipeline-test-3 by @marwie is the latest example of the cool things Needle can do! 

~tumbleword by @blprnt is a beautiful word search game! (Read this wonderful thread about this sweet new game.)

We’ve really been enjoying @bobarke’s classical art WebXR experiments on Twitter that sort of sound like an epic game of clue:
Michelangelo in the dining room 
Fish in the basement bedroom
Homer on the desk

Love card games? Play a quick game of Blackjack at ~javascript-blackjack created by @geeklins.

~farsi-letter-drill by @jessicarose lets you practice your farsi letter memorization with digital flashcards.

~reciprocals-list by @christianp generates a full, infinite list of reciprocals and their decimal strings. 

~color-coded-equations by @enderverse is an awesome tool that lets you draw and annotate color-coded questions. Learn more about it from their thread on the forum

~fastify-x-spotify by @jonnowitts is a Fastify-powered connector to Spotify

~goosegrid by @aceslowman is a really cool WebMIDI sequencer.

~silicon-nonstop-bream by @motionharvest is a pomodoro timer embed for anyone who prefers dark mode! 

The folks at Maps Mania (very prolific Glitch app creators!) created a Glitch app to share their roundup of the top 50 interactive maps of 2022, enjoy!  

January weather giving you whiplash??  There's an app for that on Glitch! Check out ~weather-whiplash also created by @mapsmania.

~stefans-creative-bots by @stefan with updates including more bots and their presence on the fediverse!

~chicagobipocbirders by @yorickgarcia is a grassroots effort to build community among BIPOC birders of Chicago.

~crestgatcha created by @paige is a super simple gatcha simulator allowing a random card pull, displaying a random collectable card of everyone’s favorite amphibian.

Did you know that Glitch is now on the fediverse? Follow us on this new social media journey at @glitch@mastodon.social where you can share Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature! You can still send them to us via the community forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup!

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~wobble-clock created by @christianp. Does it look better if you tilt your head? Maybe!

Whatever your attitude toward time is, January has passed so now it’s time for another roundup of creative Glitch community endeavors.

Last month on Glitch, the January 2023 edition

Every year, we show off the best stuff on Glitch because we want everyone to understand why our community is special. You can see it in the categories we pick, and the creators we feature. Last Year on Glitch is our way to celebrate the Glitch apps that inspired, helped, and overall made us see how fun, friendly, and beautiful the web could be in 2022.

These apps activate and move the community through organizing, education, and storytelling.

“Black Photo Booth” is a print and web zine by Mariame Kaba, designed and built by @netanoir, that intimately explores the expression of Black people through a collection of photo booth portraits.

These apps show the wonder of augmented and virtual reality in the browser.

Achieving their goal of “native-quality VR gameplay & design on the 3D open web”, Paradowski Creative built this mini-golf game on Glitch that, while meant for play using a VR headset, has a beautiful world that can be explored via desktop.

These apps help the community solve problems, big or small!

Fedifinder is a tool by @Luca that searches Twitter for fediverse handles, bringing thousands of people the power to find where the people they want to follow are as recent leadership change on the platform has left a large part of its community feeling powerless.

These apps look stunning and/or generated art that made us go “Wow!”

Sometimes the most beautiful experience you can have is a simple one. The interaction on @toddwords' small memorial app forces a moment of quiet reflection at your keyboard, reminding you it's good to pause and appreciate the world around you.

~hushed-wheat-chips created by @elvia.vasconcelos and @catilac

These meme-able apps were made to make the community laugh and bring fun to the web.

Have void, will scream into it. Built by @ckolbeck, /dev/null is a hilarious reminder that not every textarea with a submit button needs to actually send every single thought to somewhere perceivable.

~owenwilsonwowmachine created by @arianna1098765

~phone-from-dilemma created by @aTylerRobertson

These playlists curated by the community are always “on repeat” and are our go-to for remixing and inspiration.

@botwiki/open-source-bots-and-starter-projects

The @botwiki team, for years, has been showcasing and educating the community on building bots for art, education, and solving problem. This playlist shares several from the community and is a great starting point to build your next creative bot!

These educational apps brought us offline and into the real world, taught us to code or enriched our minds. 

Relative fiction is a tool by @filipnest that teaches you about, and lets you write through its editor, dynamic stories relative to the reader’s location, time and place. Using APIs like Foursquare, OpenWeatherMap, and more, it’s an incredible concept of using technology for an immersive experience in prose.

~weird-old-book-finder created by @pomeranian99

🎶 Attack of the clones (All the Wordle and Heardle clones!)

🤔 Least likely place you’d think you’d find a Glitch app but it’s there

Post your shave to r/wetshaving “a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor”

🕺 Number of times our Director of Community’s been rickrolled by a Glitch app

12: jenn-realtime-rickroll-counter.glitch.me

For more 2022 goodness check out some of the best from around our community in this gallery playlist: 

We can’t wait to see what all you create in 2023! ✨

Last Year on Glitch is our way to celebrate the Glitch apps that inspired, helped, and overall made us see how fun, friendly, and beautiful the web could be in 2022.

Last Year on Glitch 2022

Glitch is a home to many different types of communities. There are builders, students, artists, virtual reality enthusiasts, the list goes on and on. But we want to call to attention a specific community that we are truly grateful for: developer advocates. These are the folks thinking hard about developer experience and working every day to create more pathways, more possibilities, and more connections in ways that continue to inspire us!

Why is developer experience so important to us? That’s sort of a trick question when it comes to Glitch because we believe that everyone can build something online – you just have to create an environment that empowers and encourages people to experiment with code. 

Which is why developer advocates find a natural home at Glitch. We never really set out to attract teams of developers creating and sharing code on Glitch, yet through their own efforts, teams from Microsoft, Twitter, Google, Stripe, Slack and so many others have chosen Glitch to build demos, apps for testing, or just apps replicating errors and possible solutions. Those aren’t the only things they build either. Some developer teams, like Stripe’s have built out entire platforms based on Glitch to better enable their audiences to understand the inner workings of Stripe’s systems. 

And it’s not only teams from big companies taking advantage of the opportunity. Open source software (our favorite kind!) communities have also embraced the openness of Glitch to build demos, or better yet—entire playlists of the best use cases for their code. The virtual reality, augmented reality, or what we like to call, WebXR world has a strong presence on Glitch, with teams from TensorFlow, A-Frame, Needle Engine, and P5.js building out demos and showing the world how they can jump right into creating with WebXR in a few clicks. 

Creating a good experience for folks to get started with is not only great developer experience, but it’s fantastic community building, which is something we spend a great deal of time thinking about. Building the open web means creating space for lots of different types of people to use tools, so those tools have to be good. Encouragement is key after that, because having a coding experience where you succeed pretty quickly is a very positive experience, and who doesn’t want more of that?

Mix all of these factors together and you have the building blocks for what Glitch is all about: enabling everyone to create, building together, success that is celebrated, and lots and lots of learning. Learning builds connections, and those connections more often than not, create community. So, to the folks out there writing the demos, thinking about the README phrasing, breaking down tough concepts so others can understand, thank you for all that you do and we salute you and we’re always happy to share what you’re building! 

Glitch is a home to many different types of communities. There are builders, students, artists, virtual reality enthusiasts, the list goes on and on. But we want to call to attention a specific community that we are truly grateful for: developer advocates.

Why we appreciate developer experience

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: 

~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 @christianp is exactly what the project name is hehe

~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!

~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! 

~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. 

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. 

Let's make a personal site, live!

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 community@glitch.com—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.

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.

Last month on Glitch, the November 2022 edition

As the year winds down, some folks spend the remainder of it celebrating the good things the year brought them, or the potential that the new year has in store. Others look at the past twelve months and reflect upon the ins and outs and ups and downs that life never stops bringing to our door. 

We figured, why not both? So to wind down 2022 we’re reflecting on all of the things that we’re grateful for as a community, and most importantly—as fans of this weird and wonderful web we’ve all gathered around. 

Gratitude has long been a part of Glitch’s DNA. (Fun fact: Less than a month after this post went out, the Fastly team created their own #gratitude channel in Slack so we’ve always been on the same wavelength). We’ve shared in the past how expressing our appreciation for each other has strengthened our bond as a team – but also served as a guiding principle for how we approach the community. Glitch would not be what it is without you—the creators—and we are thankful for each and everyone of you. Our community continues to delight and surprise the greater web community with your creativity, ingenuity, thoughtfulness, and sense of humor.

The “Thanks 💖” button on creator profiles has been a way to show your appreciation for the individual creators and playlist curators, and heading into this season of celebration, we figured we would make it even easier to spread encouragement around the community.

Previously, you could only thank creators from their individual project page—and you still can! But we spruced things up a little, and now you can thank creators directly on their profile pages, which by the way, you have a fully customizable profile page when you register on Glitch. 

Our hope is not only that you thank the creators of your favorite projects, but that they inspire you to create something equally worth celebrating and the thanks continue until, well, until they unplug the internet. So give thanks! 

In the meantime, we’ll be celebrating all of the projects, creators, and the broader Glitch community through the rest of this year, building up to the reveal of Last Year on Glitch, our annual roundup of projects created by you! 

As the year winds down, some folks spend the remainder of it celebrating the good things the year brought them, or the potential that the new year has in store.

A season of gratitude

The year might be winding down, but the Glitch community is still in full throttle! From Taylor Swift’s Midnights album art to splattering soup on infinite images, to biking back to school and tracking Doctor Who, there was no limit to the creativity the community shared with us this past October. 

We’d like the record to reflect that at this point in 2021, we rolled out ~glitch-in-bio to Glitch Pro subscribers in an early access release, and there are now thousands of instances! In other, more recent news, we just updated our ​​✨Prettier button ✨ to support .mjs and .cjs files, thanks to a push from community member @digitpain. 

Have a suggestion for what you’d like to see happen around the Glitch community? Join us in the latest open thread over on the community forum, where we chat about all things apps, cool projects, and weird web wonders. Making some social media changes lately? Over the weekend @anildash made a playlist of Fediverse apps that are taking off on Glitch, or that are handy for developers learning to build there, so check it out.  

That’s it for updates, let’s get to the fun stuff—your creations! 

~draw-your-world by @enauman has a new update with a great door, lol!

For soup lovers (or haters) check out ~soup-splat created by @derekahmedzai 

Glitch got a shoutout in this AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) post about “y2k aesthetic.” 

~stump-spring-bellusaurus by @vian0nguyen is a precious collection of stories by a couple of friends about some bird detectives.

~bloxylibrary by @Daw588 is a handy search engine for Roblox development resources.

This past World Mental Health Day (October 10th) folks celebrated with ~thought-detox created by @AngeloStavrow. If you enjoy it, there’s a free app version available for download as well.

Local students got to ride back to school on the ~bergenbiketrain created by @daniel73473 this past month.

~notion-pokedex created by @thomasfrank is a complete Pokédex in Notion, built in under 12 hours!

@sogalanbat created the Halloween costume of the year, ~tamagotchi-game-costume, with Glitch and Phaser. 

~rosham by @ckolbeck is a shared game of swarm rock/paper/scissors. We could watch this for hours (and maybe we have...)

~gbbo-judge by @lucymeredith3 is a Great British Bake-off simulator.

~surrender-index is (surprise!) a surrender index calculator measuring how cowardly each punt in the NFL is, created by @kylehill.

The Hand Eye Society hosted a whole mini explorable experience on Glitch at ~hes-superfest-2022.

~nyt-letter-boxed-solver created by @mattly, offers much needed solutions when you’re stuck on the New York Times’ Letter Boxed game. 

@RonakChovatiya reminded us of their VR celebration for the Diwali festival 🥳

~castle-staging by @herbst + @marwie lets you create a room and have friends help you build a castle in 3D. Also check out their physics demo that includes a nod to Glitch, ~needle-physics-cannon-sample 🎏

This semester, New York University is using Glitch to teach A&P with the VR demo ~nyulangone-immersive-classroom.

Get started with Needle Engine using the tutorial ~rhinestone-ink-flock created by @herbst.

~travellog-cogap by @carolynlimadeo is a nice travellog web page from a long bike trip.

~fortunewill by @tdopress finally brings Zoltar to Glitch 🔮

~thiccccc by @keaton.brandt may be (unverified) the most c’s in the “word” “thiccccc.”

~where-who is a classic scene from Doctor Who, created by @mapsmania.

And just like that, we’re into a new month! 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 community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup!

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~taylor-swift-midnights, a Midnights album cover generator by @derekahmedzai, who also made ~soup-splat!

The year might be winding down, but the Glitch community is still in full throttle!

Last month on Glitch, the October 2022 edition

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