Episode 3 - We’re gonna need more potato chips!
November 10, 2023
This week, Jenn shows off her favorite projects from the community and continues working on her own #codejam "self-portrait" submission, which involves googly eyes, potato chips and whatever the chat helps her come up with. 🍓
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Prerequisites: no coding experience necessary, just the urge to see cool apps. Learn more about Glitch Community Code Jams: https://glitch.com/jams
News/updates
There won’t be a stream next week because of Thanksgiving - and Glitch Support will be closed on Thursday and Friday.
Glitch Community Code Jams
- Only a couple of weeks left for "self-portrait" and then we kick-off our December prompt!
- remember to go to glitch.com/jams to learn more and see how to participate (or just stick around this episode, it's your life)
App of the week
- This WebXR version of Conway’s Game of Life, which I featured on the stream last week, has since gotten a nice visual update
- Submit your favorite apps to be featured!
Building Glitch
We need your help with our next phase of improving Node support (ie. we’re deprecating very old versions 6 + 8)!
Keep an eye on the Building Glitch category in the forum for future updates and to share your own ideas and feedback.
The Gallery
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I don’t know anything about this band but of all the bingo card apps I’ve seen on Glitch, I like this one because the marker on click is really good. Worth a remix if you want to create your own!
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From the forum: raulibaper made a time timer app which I love and used a bunch this week!
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Want something cool to look at and fidget around with, click around this generative rectangle art app
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Sophia Wood made poetry out of a map of manholes and it got a nice write-up in the Salem Reporter about it.
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Former Glitch engineer Osmose made this incredible todo app awhile ago and it recently got an update.
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Not sure what I love more, the inspiration behind this hot dog Pi tossing app or the fact that a director of engineering at ACLU made it.
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A shout out to creator @MinervaArcher who created a playlist of projects they made to help in their concussion recovery, sharing in case it could be of help to anyone else.
To have your app featured, post it to The Gallery!. And if you want to talk about what you're working on, writing, reading, listening to, etc, sound off in the latest Community Open Thread
Let's jam
The goal today is to
- make the chips bigger
- add googly eyes
- add my hair