March on Glitch goes in like a lion and out like...an app. Yep, that’s the one.
Tags: glitch, javascript, art, codejam
Published: 2024-03-19 16:14:32

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title: March on Glitch goes in like a lion and out like...an app. Yep, that’s the one.
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description: Here's the Glitch Monthly Newsletter for March 2024, sharing the latest and greatest the friendliest community of coders have created!
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_Happy March!_ The NYC weather last week was in the 60s (F) and sunny and this week it's cold and windy – I swear, if it snows soon I'm going to send myself into orbit! I’ve been thinking about snow a lot, as one does in March, because I’d been agonizing over what the screensaver I’m making for [this month’s Community Code Jam](https://glitch.com/jams) should be. On the one hand, I think it would be cool to have snow falling like the old JavaScript code snippets we used to add to our websites 20 years ago, but also a generative artwork based on the time of day would be really fun and dynamic.

If you have any great ideas, say it to my virtual face [this Friday at 2pm Eastern on Glitch Jams Live](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkkL3Pim_xkWKMmXOMX1KjJkCkFjQv2MB). While you wait, there’s plenty of awesome community projects and content in the rest of this email to tide you over.

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

P.S. If it’s your job (or hobby, even) to care about performance or security, and you can be in the San Francisco area on April 4th, you should check out our conference [Fastly Xcelerate](https://learn.fastly.com/xcelerate2024_SF.html). There’s no better opportunity to share space and network directly with the Fastly community as well as my colleagues who are responsible for making it all work. It’s free and [you can register here today](https://learn.fastly.com/xcelerate2024_SF.html)!


![an abstract collage of turquoise water in the background, and a bunch of faded images and text layered over each other. a bunch of the text is "MANIA" repeated](https://cdn.glitch.global/c5816de0-a11c-424f-8adb-6f7ececc1213/m1nd-map.png)

### On the blogs ✍️

Check out [our February community project roundup](https://blog.glitch.com/post/february-2024-on-glitch) on the Glitch blog, featuring apps race horses around New Jersey, the difference between “former” and “latter”, sort emoji alphabetically, and more!

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

*   I love [Naive Weekly](https://www.naiveweekly.com/p/sunflower-seed-packet), and it’s not uncommon to come across a Glitch app here and there, like [~httpoetics](https://glitch.com/~httpoetics) and [~all-about-computer-love](https://glitch.com/~all-about-computer-love)
*   Bluesky is open to the public and [some of the tools to help you get started](https://from-over-the-horizon.ghost.io/bluesky-social-new-user-guide/) live on Glitch, like [~bannerizer](https://glitch.com/~bannerizer)
*   [Semaphore makes the case for using Vite](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/vite), listing Glitch (see you starters!) among other platforms that are all in on my personal favorite on-demand building tool.

**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:
    *   [@allo](https://glitch.com/@allo) showed us [how to connect a database to the Perchance generator platform](https://support.glitch.com/t/working-database-connected-to-external-site-startpoint/66049/3)
    *   [@n.hieda](https://glitch.com/@n.hieda) shared a [work-in-progress dance-tech performance based on an interactive Hydra app](https://support.glitch.com/t/sfdcanbac-dance-tech-performance/65967) on Glitch
    *   and [@derekahmedzai](https://glitch.com/@derekahmedzai) made it easy [to share your Letterboxd faves](https://support.glitch.com/t/letterboxd-screenshot-tool/65935).
*   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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