Last month on Glitch was weird and wonderful, let's blog about it! ✍️
Tags: glitch, javascript, maps, codejam
Published: 2024-02-20 22:50:02

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title: Last month on Glitch was weird and wonderful, let's blog about it! ✍️
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description: Here's the Glitch Monthly Newsletter for February 2024, sharing the latest and greatest the friendliest community of coders have created!
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_Happy February!_ I know that January is the start of the year, but for me it’s always February that feels like a fresh beginning - it’s both my birth and Glitch anniversary month, and that’s why I look for any way to make everything about the things I enjoy. That’s why the prompt for [this month’s Glitch Community Code Jam is “welcome to my blog.”](https://glitch.com/jams) I love blogs - always have, always will, and the turbulence that social media is going through is lending itself to a sort of renaissance of blogging. This is just to say, I want to read your blogs OR I want you to start one if you haven’t already AND you should submit them to our jam.

Before you scroll to see some very cool blog posts and projects, I want to remind you all that [February 28th is our deprecation date for versions of Node < 12](https://support.glitch.com/t/weve-got-another-node-deprecation-update-node-12-on-february-28-2024/65676), and this week [we’re removing Chromium from containers](https://support.glitch.com/t/puppeteer-incident-resolved-chromium-being-removed-from-containers-monday-february-12/65833). All of this is in service of getting Glitch up to date - and to combat activities making it difficult for the community to create cool stuff.

See you on [glitch.com](https://glitch.com/)  
**Jenn**, Director of Community and blog enthusiast 👽

P.S. Fastly is running a developer meetup in our new NYC space on February 27th - if you’re in the area, we’d love for you to join us for an evening of refreshments, activities and conversations about computing at the edge. It’s also a good opportunity to get some Glitch stickers that I’ve been hoarding at my desk! [Save yourself a spot for this free event before they run out.](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fastly-connect-developer-meetup-nyc-compute-at-the-edge-tickets-828860503077?aff=oddtdtcreator)


![a grid of virtual drawers and some of them are pulled out to spell LOL](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/hqxxppnk1ubem0wf1sqb.png)

### On the blogs ✍️

If you loved [Last Year on Glitch](https://blog.glitch.com/post/last-year-on-glitch-2023), you’ll love our monthly roundups, with this year starting off hot with the [Last Month on Glitch, January edition](https://blog.glitch.com/post/january-2024-on-glitch-weird-and-wonderful). This issue includes:

*   A browser for…toasters
*   Most flavors of Mountain Dew
*   Slime (or goo)
*   Lots of geographic trivia

…and so much more! [Check it out for yourself](https://blog.glitch.com/post/january-2024-on-glitch-weird-and-wonderful) and be sure to add our blog to your RSS feed readers which I know you have if you’re a sicko like me.

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

*   The New Stack [wrote about (and even interviewed some of) the Last Year on Glitch 2023 creators.](https://thenewstack.io/2023s-most-unforgettable-glitch-projects/)
*   Maps Mania [keeps challenging our knowledge of cities](https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/01/25-cities.html) in wildly challenging ways like with their recent game, 25cities.
*   Google’s Sam Dutton [goes deep into what the parts of a URL are](https://web.dev/articles/url-parts). See if you can list the parts before clicking through.
*   Glitch alum and pal, Danilo Campos, was [on the Screaming in the Cloud podcast](https://share.transistor.fm/s/a7510121)!

**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!**

![stock image of two people on their computers and a screenshot of the Glitch forum is pasted above one of the screens](https://cdn.glitch.global/c5816de0-a11c-424f-8adb-6f7ececc1213/forum-banner.png?v=1675363530806)

### On the forum 📣

Check out what the Glitch community is sharing and discussing:

*   Fresh from The Gallery: @n.hieda [shared shapes and textures from Taiwan using leaflet](https://support.glitch.com/t/shapes-textures-found-in-taiwan-mapped-to-leaflet-map/65780), @raulibaper updated [their Chat-GPT-facilitated Time Timer app](https://support.glitch.com/t/time-timer-demo-with-chatgpt/64760/4), and @24amesquir [served us some 2D jelly](https://support.glitch.com/t/just-some-jelly/65640).
*   Say hi and share what you’ve been working on in [the latest Community Open thread!](https://support.glitch.com/c/community-banter/24)

**The [Glitch Community Forum](https://support.glitch.com) 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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