The Glitch community is a diverse and creative bunch, with a shared love for tech and what it can do to both empower and entertain. This is clear in this week’s round-up of great apps created on Glitch, with everything from floating heads to musical machines! Let’s take a look. — #Remix4Change to Empower Black Voters 🗳️✊🏾 We’ve partnered with Color of Change on an online hackathon called #Remix4Change. The aim is simple: empower Black voters by turning technology into power. …

App creators on Glitch are making Twitter work the way they want by showing us that the Web is what we make it! — There’s no shortage of opinions these these days about Twitter. Whether it’s their design decisions, their response (or lack thereof) to harassment and abuse, their on-again-off-again relationship with developers or their handling of the Alex Jones situation that’s resulting in tomorrow’s “D-Day”. Twitter is its own trending topic.

How one person and a Glitch project is helping make Government more accessible. And you can too! — Angelina Bethoney created a bot that tweets legislation being worked on in Massachusetts. But she didn’t stop there. She made it a remixable template on Glitch, and the response she got when she shared the project was amazing! As co-organizer of Botwiki, Bethoney helps lead a community of passionate makers…

From De-Stijl to live-coded networked visuals, things have gotten all arty on Glitch this week. Let’s take a look at the inspiring creations and creators that have caught our eye. — Live-Coding and Algoraving 🕺🏼💃🏾 Bogotá-based coder and cartographer, Olivia Jack, has been sharing some awesome sketches this week. Created with Hydra, a set of tools Jack created for live coding networked visuals, it uses streaming for routing video sources and outputs in real-time and often with hypnotic results.

As we get close to 1M projects on Glitch, we take a look at the fantastic apps and creators that have helped define our creative community. — I love working on Glitch. One of the things I like most is the amazingly creative, friendly, and thoughtful community that I get to work alongside each day. Tech has been getting a good kicking in the media lately, and rightly so. From execs being jerks to privacy woes —…

The Holy Grail of customer support is to be pro-active. But a lot of Support teams find themselves permanently fire-fighting. With Crash Reporting in Manuscript, you can stay ahead of customer issues. — Reacting quickly and properly to customer needs is table stakes. It’s no longer enough to simply give your customers a satisfactory experience if you want to maintain customer loyalty. This is because almost half of customers say they’d look to take their business elsewhere immediately if they experienced poor customer…

How one small design choice helps Glitch show how code really gets created. — Polished Perfection: A Distorted Reality I was relaxing by the pool when I noticed a tall, tanned, handsome man on the other side. I would have described him as cool except he was contorting his body quite strangely. He was looking this way and had his arm outstretched. He was taking a selfie 🤳🏼. This…

Developers use Bug Trackers. Support uses a Helpdesk. It’s how software teams have always worked. But is there a better way? — Working Independently I’ve experienced this kind of separate setup, see if any of this sounds familiar: Customers email in reporting bugs and they get routed into the Support team’s Helpdesk software. Meanwhile, the development team track their development tasks, like bug fixes, in their own separate bug tracking software. So for the…

Using Manuscript to manage software development projects, whatever your workflow — Manuscript is built for the realities of software development. We’ve been creating software products that help people make software for over 17 years. From inventing tools like Glitch and Trello, to helping co-found Stack Overflow, and pioneering bug tracking with FogBugz. …