Episode 18 - Bugs on purpose

April 19, 2024

This week we're back and making bugs for the Glitch Community Code Jam prompt "cool bugs." Join Jenn Schiffer as she shares her favorite Glitch apps shared over the past week, look at your screensaver submissions, and continues her screensaver submission - but making it...cool and buggy. 🪲

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

• Node deprecation update
• Help us work towards opening Glitch in Bio up to community development

App of the week

• A cute Glitch classic,~emoji-garden by @notwaldorf is a random emoji garden generator that makes cute little gardens.
• Submit your favorite apps to be featured!

The Gallery

• Andy Piper made a fediwall of posts about Glitch: andypiper.url.lol/madewithglitch. Andy also shared the resources for their talk on the history of Computer Art, pen plotters and more.
• ~tts-compare is an Elo ranking tool for ranking voice models
• ~empowerment-tech is a 3d virtual fashion exhibit (warning: sound)
• ~back-drop is a geoguessr-like game but you're guessing where the backdrop of a painting is in the world
• ~fast-four-walnut is a terminal-styled chat inspired by the 2022 batman movie
• ~city-of-light is a digital storytelling piece about the connection between choosing to love a place and a person

Glitch Community Code Jams

This month we're making cool bugs! Let's go over some of the submissions so far and figure out what I'm going to work on hehehe.

• ~bugvsboxes pits bugs against boxes
• ~they-tried-to made me lol and rage
• ~bugquiz is a code bug quiz
• ~ld55-needle-summon is a Needle game
• ~bugrdle is wordle for buggies

My submission in progress, a buggy screensaver: ~paper-dark-witness