Episode 20 - Announcing our May code jam...

May 3, 2024

This week we're announcing the Glitch Community Code Jam prompt for May! Join Jenn Schiffer as she shares her favorite Glitch apps shared over the past week, looks at your buggy submissions, and get everyone ready for the new Month. 🪲

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

• Next stream will be in June! Give us feedback on the next season!
• Some help doc updates: Turns out DigitalOcean project name requirements are different from Glitch's! And we found a spooky edge case with Rewind and deprecated Node versions.

App of the week

• ~zine-machine by @rowan-m.
• Submit your favorite apps to be featured!

The Gallery

• ~maps-and-splats was shared on HN by the creator, Kfarr
• @blippypixel shares a lot of cool a-frame projects
• wall genie uses glitch as the server
• ~arborville is an incredible ascii map
• ~ruth-connections gives wordle vibes but with word connections vs spelling words
• if you're on twitter and like infosec, check out johan carlsson's (@joaxcar) challenges
• last stream i mentioned the cubs game tracker, here's a toronto maple leafs win tracker
• rory is looking for a house in scotland and mapped out sale prices
• ~peppermint-steep-tiglon is a m3u stream test in Needle Engine
• ~fancy-charming-physician was a great first effort at WebXR at Sudo Room women and nonbinary hack and do whatever night

Glitch Community Code Jams

This month we're gonna teach a thing!

Shouts out to our Product Experience team at Fastly who had their on-site this week and worked on a couple of submissions so far! I'll be sharing all the submission in the next stream - but here's a sneak peek: a compost quiz from Director of Product Experience, Jen Fleming

Let's go over the #coolbugs submissions from last month!