Happy March! The NYC weather last week was in the 60s (F) and sunny and this week it's cold and windy – I swear, if it snows soon I'm going to send myself into orbit! I’ve been thinking about snow a lot, as one does in March, because I’d been agonizing over what the screensaver I’m making for this month’s Community Code Jam should be. On the one hand, I think it would be cool to have snow falling like the old JavaScript code snippets we used to add to our websites 20 years ago, but also a generative artwork based on the time of day would be really fun and dynamic.

If you have any great ideas, say it to my virtual face this Friday at 2pm Eastern on Glitch Jams Live. While you wait, there’s plenty of awesome community projects and content in the rest of this email to tide you over.

See you on glitch.com

Jenn, Director of Community and blog enthusiast 👽

P.S. If it’s your job (or hobby, even) to care about performance or security, and you can be in the San Francisco area on April 4th, you should check out our conference Fastly Xcelerate. There’s no better opportunity to share space and network directly with the Fastly community as well as my colleagues who are responsible for making it all work. It’s free and you can register here today!

On the blogs ✍️

Check out our February community project roundup on the Glitch blog, featuring apps race horses around New Jersey, the difference between “former” and “latter”, sort emoji alphabetically, and more!

Here are some blog posts (and a podcast!) from the community that we loved!

• I love Naive Weekly, and it’s not uncommon to come across a Glitch app here and there, like ~httpoetics and ~all-about-computer-love
• Bluesky is open to the public and some of the tools to help you get started live on Glitch, like ~bannerizer
• Semaphore makes the case for using Vite, listing Glitch (see you starters!) among other platforms that are all in on my personal favorite on-demand building tool.

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:
  • @allo showed us how to connect a database to the Perchance generator platform
  • @n.hieda shared a work-in-progress dance-tech performance based on an interactive Hydra app on Glitch
  • and @derekahmedzai made it easy to share your Letterboxd faves.
• 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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