12 posts tagged “glitch”
2025
Saying Bye to Glitch (via) Pirijan, co-creator of Glitch - who stopped working on it six years ago, so has the benefit of distance:
Here lies Glitch, a place on the web you could go to write up a website or a node.js server that would be hosted and updated as you type. 🥀 RIP 2015 – 2025.
Pirijan continues with a poignant retrospective about Glitch's early origins at Fog Greek with the vision of providing "web development with real code that was as easy as editing a Google Doc". Their conclusion:
I still believe there’s a market for easy and fun web development and hosting, but a product like this needs power-users and enthusiasts willing to pay for it. To build any kind of prosumer software, you do have to be an optimist and believe that enough of the world still cares about quality and craft.
Glitch will be shutting down project hosting and user profiles on July 8th.
Code will be available to download until the end of the year. Glitch have an official Python export script that can download all of your projects and assets.
Jenn Schiffer, formerly Director of Community at Glitch and then Fastly, is a little more salty:
all that being said, i do sincerely want to thank fastly for giving glitch the opportunity to live to its 3-year acqui-versary this week. they generously took in a beautiful flower and placed it upon their sunny window sill with hopes to grow it more. the problem is they chose to never water it, and anyone with an elementary school education know what happens then. i wish us all a merry august earnings call season.
I'm very sad to see Glitch go. I've been pointing people to my tutorial on Running Datasette on Glitch for 5 years now, it was a fantastic way to help people quickly get started hosting their own projects.
2022
Over-engineering Secret Santa with Python cryptography and Datasette
We’re doing a family Secret Santa this year, and we needed a way to randomly assign people to each other without anyone knowing who was assigned to who.
[... 2,044 words]2019
Datasette 0.31. Released today: this version adds compatibility with Python 3.8 and breaks compatibility with Python 3.5. Since Glitch support Python 3.7.3 now I decided I could finally give up on 3.5. This means Datasette can use f-strings now, but more importantly it opens up the opportunity to start taking advantage of Starlette, which makes all kinds of interesting new ASGI-based plugins much easier to build.
Weeknotes: Python 3.7 on Glitch, datasette-render-markdown
Streaks is really working well for me. I’m at 12 days of commits to Datasette, 16 posting a daily Niche Museum, 19 of actually reviewing my email inbox and 14 of guitar practice. I rewarded myself for that last one by purchasing an actual classical (as opposed to acoustic) guitar.
[... 1,141 words]Get your own Pocket OAuth token (via) I hate it when APIs make you jump through extensive hoops just to get an access token for pulling data directly from your own personal account. I’ve been playing with the Pocket API today and it has a pretty complex OAuth flow, so I built a tiny Flask app on Glitch which helps go through the steps to get an API token for your own personal Pocket account.
Public Data Release of Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey. Here’s the Stack Overflow announcement of their developer survey public data release, which discusses the Glitch partnership and mentions Datasette.
Discover Insights in Developer Survey Results. Stack Overflow partnered with Glitch and used Datasette to host the full data set from Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey!
Hello world for ASGI running on Glitch (via) I’m continuing to experiment with Python 3 running on Glitch. This evening on my walk home from work I built this “hello world” demo on my phone, partly to see if Glitch was a workable mobile development environment—it passed with flying colours! The demo is a simple hello world implemented using the new ASGI 3.0 specification, running on the daphne reference server. Click the “via” link for my accompanying thread on Twitter, which includes a short screencast (also recorded on my phone) showing Glitch in action.
Language support on Glitch: a list (via) This is really useful: it’s essentially “Glitch: the missing manual” for running languages other than JavaScript. The Glitch community forums are a gold mine of useful information like this.
Running Datasette on Glitch
Update 28th May 2025: Sadly Glitch is shutting down user project hosting, so this tutorial is no longer relevant.
[... 1,020 words]2010
Glitch is built in an entirely new and different way for a game. The back end (java at the lowest level, with game logic scripted in Javascript) is designed for maximum flexibility and ease of deployment. That means we'll be able to push new content — new items, new places, new characters — on a daily basis. It also means that we'll have lots of APIs with which the game can be expanded and extended.
— Glitch
glitch zen. Glitch is the upcoming online game from Tiny Speck, many of whom are ex Flickr and indeed ex Game Never Ending before that. Glitch Zen is the first fan site.