jenn schifferHappy May on Glitch! It’s a pleasant time of the year - the weather is getting nicer and summer is on the horizon. Recently we kicked off a new testing program to get some feedback as we work towards bringing custom domains back to Glitch using Fastly’s free TLS offering - join the testing group and help us improve the experience!
By the way, have you heard of Bluesky? Another addition to the decentralized social media space, it’s built on the AT Protocol and growing fast as invites have been flowing over the past couple of weeks. I built a starter bot that counts sheep, which you can view and remix on Glitch if you’re curious about what building bots for Bluesky is like. We’ve also seen cool apps from the community like @gsajith’s ~blue-skies-ahead project which shows Bluesky posts in real time. We’re excited about decentralized social platforms, and especially excited to see our community building on and for it!
See you on glitch.com (and also @glitch.bsky.social)!
Jenn, Director of Community 👽
P.S. Shouts out to creator Dominic Farolino, who reached out to share something really cool he built on Glitch: “I always forget which GitHub repositories of mine have GitHub pages enabled, and therefore might be hosting something cool for the world to see. So I created gh-pages.glitch.me to show me…From spending a little time on it I actually found some pretty cool projects that I didn't know about!”
On the blogs ✍️
In case you missed it on the Glitch Blog...
- Check out what you created last month in the April edition of Last Month on Glitch, featuring games, permutations, garbage, and keyboard bashing 🔨
- We caught up with Sonny Li to talk about his team’s latest project Codédex, as well as security analyst Kim Key who remixed Glitch in Bio to make her own webpage and makes great podcast recommendations!
Here are some blog posts from the community that we loved!
- Keir Clarke of Maps Mania shared this pictorial map of Americana hidden treasures
- Daily used Glitch to show off their Prebuilt Integrations API and integrate a Miro board and CometChat
- Raymond Camden gave a great overview of the more modern, experimental Cookie Store API.
- Evan Marie Carr shared their journey using ChatGPT to build a todo app on Glitch.
Have you written about your Glitch apps on a blog, a conference talk…anywhere! Let us know and we’ll feature it in the next newsletter!
On the forum 📣
Check out what the Glitch community is sharing and discussing:
- Fresh from The Gallery: with Spotify shutting down Heardle, @derekahmedzai’s clones are more useful than ever! Also, here’s a fresh new Deno starter by @pb.oliver.mcloughlin!
- Say hi and share what you’ve been working on in the latest Community Open thread!
The Glitch Community Forum is the best way to ask the community for help, share what you’re making, exchange friendly banter and get to know your fellow friendly Glitch creators. See you there! 😎
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