Bringing custom domains back to Glitch and bots to Bluesky 🤖🌤️
Tags: glitch, javascript, bluesky, ghpages
Published: 2023-05-16 15:15:14


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title: Bringing custom domains back to Glitch and bots to Bluesky 🤖🌤️
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description: Here's the Glitch Monthly Newsletter for May 2023, sharing the latest and greatest the friendliest community of coders have created!
tags: glitch, javascript, bluesky, ghpages
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_Happy May on Glitch!_ It’s a pleasant time of the year - the weather is getting nicer and summer is on the horizon. Recently we kicked off a new testing program to get some feedback as we work towards bringing custom domains back to Glitch using Fastly’s free TLS offering - [join the testing group and help us improve the experience](https://support.glitch.com/t/help-us-test-out-fastly-tls-glitch-and-get-2-custom-domains/62194)!

By the way, have you heard of [Bluesky](https://blueskyweb.xyz/)? Another addition to the decentralized social media space, it’s built on the AT Protocol and growing fast as invites have been flowing over the past couple of weeks. I built a starter bot that counts sheep, which you can [view and remix on Glitch](https://glitch.com/edit/#!/hello-bluesky-sheep) if you’re curious about what building bots for Bluesky is like. We’ve also seen cool apps from the community like [@gsajith’s ~blue-skies-ahead](https://glitch.com/~blue-skies-ahead) project which shows Bluesky posts in real time. We’re excited about decentralized social platforms, and especially excited to see our community building on and for it!

See you on [glitch.com](https://glitch.com/) (and also @glitch.bsky.social)!  
**Jenn**, Director of Community 👽

P.S. Shouts out to creator Dominic Farolino, who reached out to share something really cool he built on Glitch: _“I always forget which GitHub repositories of mine have GitHub pages enabled, and therefore might be hosting something cool for the world to see. So I created [gh-pages.glitch.me](https://gh-pages.glitch.me/) to show me…From spending a little time on it I actually found some pretty cool projects that I didn't know about!”_

![screenshot of ~pebble-quixotic-bobolink showing a game where a dog has avoid a tree and one is coming up](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/52t9ncrrwdv1dn28siqy.png)

## On the blogs ✍️

In case you missed it on [the Glitch Blog](https://blog.glitch.com)...

- Check out what you created last month in [the April edition of Last Month on Glitch](https://blog.glitch.com/post/last-month-on-glitch-the-april-2023-edition), featuring games, permutations, garbage, and keyboard bashing 🔨
- [We caught up with Sonny Li](https://blog.glitch.com/post/making-learning-to-code-fun-a-qa-with-sonny-li-codedex) to talk about his team’s latest project Codédex, as well as [security analyst Kim Key](https://blog.glitch.com/post/5-minutes-with-kim-key) who remixed Glitch in Bio to make her own webpage and makes great podcast recommendations!

Here are some blog posts from the community that we loved!

- Keir Clarke of Maps Mania [shared this pictorial map](https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-american-treasure-map.html) of Americana hidden treasures
- Daily [used Glitch to show off their Prebuilt Integrations API](https://www.daily.co/blog/integrate-miro-and-cometchat-in-a-daily-video-call-with-our-new-prebuilt-integrations-api/) and integrate a Miro board and CometChat
- Raymond Camden gave [a great overview of the more modern, experimental Cookie Store API.](https://www.raymondcamden.com/2023/04/12/using-the-cookie-store-api)
- Evan Marie Carr [shared their journey using ChatGPT to build a todo app](https://www.evanmarie.com/chatgpt-teach-me-how-to/) on Glitch.

**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: with Spotify shutting down Heardle, [@derekahmedzai’s clones](https://support.glitch.com/t/two-new-heardle-clones/61803) are more useful than ever! Also, here’s [a fresh new Deno starter by @pb.oliver.mcloughlin](https://support.glitch.com/t/hello-deno-fresh-a-fresh-starter-running-using-the-deno-runtime/61881)!
- Say hi and share what you’ve been working on in [the latest Community Open thread!](https://support.glitch.com/t/community-open-thread-23-may-5-2023/62244)

**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! 😎**

![Glitch Pro gem](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ri3xwr8roxl69ljh8zxo.png)

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