Episode 5 - (Almost) every app can be a gift

December 1, 2023

This week, Jenn shows off her favorite projects from the community and starts her submission to this month's "gift-giving" code jam! 🍓

Catch all the previous episodes of Glitch Jams Live here in Youtube playlist form

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

• It's time for the community to choose! What were the apps that delighted you, either from the community or your own - our Last Year on Glitch 2023 call for nominations are open until December 22nd.
• On the blog: it's the November edition of Last Month on Glitch, where we share what the community created and shared over the last month.

App of the week

• One of our faves from the "self-portrait" code jam, ~advice-to-myself gathers guiding life principles from the community.
• 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)! December 15th is the deadline for updating projects using Node 8 and below

• Read more about this on our blog
• And here's our help doc on Node versions.

Keep an eye on the Building Glitch category in the forum for future updates and to share your own ideas and feedback.

Glitch Community Code Jams

• @n.hieda rolls in the gif-giving season with giphy-to-ascii app ~ascii-gif-giving
• 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)

The Gallery

• @mintycrisp shared some tips and trick on how to loop animations in A-frame on Dev.to - btw did you know we're on there too?
• Hi hun! Long time no see 😊 ~mlm-generator is a funny UMMM...WHATTTT 😱😱😱😱 app that generates mlm copypasta You get SO. MUCH. FREE STUFF 🙌
• ~blackoutpoetry is a classic Glitch project, but it came up on social again because the Sufficient Velocity community is running a blackout poetry party.
• ~youtune (possibly nsfw) streams unviewed original songs that are posted on Youtube, a very cool discovery project from @elankiderman who has made other cool discovery projects.

Let's jam

• first we need to talk about Websockets
• Now you can see my remix of that starter for what will be a multiplayer gift game, currently on ~jelly-raspy-plier. See the readme for the vision, also my wireframe lol: