Twitter ending free API support, community blog posts, WebMIDI and more 🎵

Happy February, and welcome to the first Glitch Monthly Newsletter of 2023 – and our first time sharing our monthly email to the community here on DEV 😎! It’s also the anniversary of me putting the wrong year in last year’s February newsletter and, yes, it still keeps me up at night. This edition isn’t about my warped connection to time and space, though, but about our warped connection to time and space - like, can you believe a whole month of 2023 has passed already? Can you believe you helped us celebrate the community’s favorite apps of 2022 already?

Also, can you believe I had this all written out and ready to send out but then Twitter dropped the news that they’re ending free API support next week? Maybe? If you’ve made a Glitch app using the Twitter API, you’ll no doubt be affected by however this end-of-support goes. Might I suggest exploring and building the fediverse with us? I am weirdly excited about how this bad news can turn into a new, decentralized, creative community building the web together.

See you on glitch.com!
Jenn, Director of Community 👽

P.S. Can you believe there’s more in this newsletter? There’s, like, no character max on these things! Keep scrolling to see what the community built, shared, and wrote about over the past month...

On the blogs ✍️

In case you missed it on the Glitch Blog...

• Check out the latest issue of Last Month on Glitch, January edition. It has wobbly clocks, annotatable and colorful maths, and more!
• We couldn’t take a break for the new year without expressing our gratitude to the creators using Glitch to improve developer experience!

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

• Maps Mania wrote about their Glitch app that uses NASA data and Mapbox to visualize the “weather whiplash” of December/January.
• This Google Chrome blog demos, on Glitch, a SQLite Wasm app with a Origin Private file System persistence backend - the replacement for the late Web SQL Database API.
• Here is a very interesting lecture on georeferencing data, which ends with a Glitch app the lecturer created to convert search strings into coordinates.
• If you want a one-post guide about storing data on the web, this one by Patrick Brosset is really comprehensive and comes with a Glitch demo which we love to see.

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!

On the forum 📣

Check out what the Glitch community is sharing and discussing:

• Fresh from The Gallery: @aboutdavid shared these cool Glitch Community Forum badges to show off your participation and contributions, and @aceslowman built a whole WebMIDI sequencer bringing grids and blocks to your beats!
• Say hi to the community and give your feedback in the latest Community Open Thread!

The Glitch Community Forum 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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