There’s a killer new guide to building for Mastodon and the Fediverse…
Tags: glitch, mastodon, javascript, fediverse
Published: 2023-03-14 14:49:37

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title: There’s a killer new guide to building for Mastodon and the Fediverse…
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description: Here's the Glitch Monthly Newsletter for March 2023, sharing the latest and greatest the friendliest community of coders have created!
tags: glitch, mastodon, javascript, fediverse
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*Hello and happy March*, the month that weather folklore tells us “comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.” I imagine for those of you students reading this, the lion is midterms and the lamb is spring break. Anyway, [Glitch won a DEVIES Award last month](https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastly-wins-2023-devies-award-for-glitch)!

Also last month, we made a number of updates to our starters:

* [Eleventy starters](https://glitch.com/edit/#!/glitch-hello-eleventy) have been updated to 2.0.0. By the way, congrats to them [on 5 million downloads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjfmI1epOag)!
* We’ve [made our Website starter simpler](https://support.glitch.com/t/hello-website-starter-project-updates/60765) in a number of ways.
Other exciting community news is that Mastodon has joined Fastly’s Fast Forward program. We’re proud to be able to support them through this era of massive growth for them, just as we are proud to be able to support all of you trying to build a better web.

See you on [glitch.com](https://glitch.com)!
Jenn, Director of Community 👽

P.S. Did you know [we have a Fastly Dev.to blog too](https://dev.to/fastly)? Follow us there for more developer blogs and let us know what you’re building and blogging! Speaking of blogging…


![Screenshot of a VR scene of a beachside cityscape](https://cdn.glitch.global/c5816de0-a11c-424f-8adb-6f7ececc1213/cinta.png?v=1678315680921)

### On the blogs ✍️

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

* Here’s the latest issue of [Last Month on Glitch](https://blog.glitch.com/post/last-month-on-glitch-the-february-2023-edition), featuring clouds, machine learning pianos, outer space experiences, and more.
* Want to get started with building on the Fediverse, or just looking at apps to help you navigate Mastodon? [We wrote this guide](https://blog.glitch.com/post/glitch-communitys-guide-to-building-the-fediverse) to all the apps and playlists that the Glitch community has built - let us know if you have something for us to add!

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

* [Tiago Rangel](https://glitch.com/@tiagorangel) wrote [an introduction to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)](https://blog.tiagorangel.com/introduction-to-pwas-progressive-web-apps). 
* Eric Meyer published [his wish list for CSS in 2023](https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/02/08/css-wish-list-2023/) and I agree with every single item he listed, and not just because he includes element transitions that the Chrome team [used Glitch to demonstrate](https://simple-set-demos.glitch.me/batman-transition/).
* [Stefan Bohacek](https://glitch.com/@stefan) wrote a retrospective on [his journey of building Twitter bots](https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/twitter-bots-a-retrospective/). Check out his [other blog posts](https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/) for his tutorials on building bots on Mastodon!. 

**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: my mind was blown by [these audio reactive shaders](https://support.glitch.com/t/create-audio-reactive-shaders-with-three-js-and-shader-park-tutorial-hosted-through-glitch/60003) that [torinmb](https://glitch.com/@torinmb) shared a tutorial of. And [Efimero](https://glitch.com/@Efimero) shares [a history of the Linux mascot](https://support.glitch.com/t/xenia-the-fox-a-website-about-a-forgotten-piece-of-history/60592) that, in my opinion, should have been! 
* Did you know the forum has a “Feature Ideas” section for the community to vote on? This week we [got a request to allow users to toggle the default state of the preview window](https://support.glitch.com/t/disable-preview-project-setting/61021/5). What other settings would you like to see?
* Say hi to the community and give your feedback [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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