What a week, huh? At one point, I was chatting with Anil and he shared with me a list of all of the good things that have been happening on the web lately. To my surprise, it was a lot! Which all goes to show that even when you’re stuck in a mindset (for me, it was “everything sucks”) it’s all about perspective. Anyway, here are some cool things I bookmarked to share with you all this week from around the Glitch community:
Kathleen introduced the world to the Cat Scream Counter, so we can finally have a global tracker for all those hungry yowls.
Finally, you can join the Worldwide Pizza Contest by sharing your 3 favorite toppings or quite literally, rolling the dice (My cheese-cheese-pepperoni combo got 2nd place!)
I love the different judges’ comments in the last one. Speaking of judging, we’ll be sharing the results of Last Year on Glitch next week, which leads me to wonder, what have you built so far in 2025?
I’ve been experimenting a lot with Bun (bun 1.2 is out btw) — If you don’t know what it is go try it out right now. you can install it in one simple command and it includes:
Very fast runtime — Node replacement
Very fast package manager — NPM replacement
Very fast bundler — Webpack replacement
Very fast built-in database — uses SQLite or Postgres
Very fast websocket server
Very fast HTTP server — replaces express
Very fast code to exe compiler
Very fast test runner — 20x faster than jest
Very fast hashing library built-in
Very fast HTML and JSX bundler
have I mentioned it’s very fast?
you can use both CJS and EJS in one single file
typescript support
web apis included
It’s very fast. I’ve seen it for myself btw
if you know node you can switch to it by simply replacing “node” with “bun” in your scripts, and it works on glitch — just remix this)
it’s also just ~60 mb btw, around the size of node.
I am NOT affiliated with Bun. 2025 will be the year of bun
I’ve also been working on Cap (an open-source PoW captcha, works on Glitch too) and Tweetalyzer 2 (unfortunately couldn’t get running on Glitch without experiencing issues, had to migrate to a raspberry pi)
Love the positive energy! It’s amazing how shifting perspective can reveal so many good things. Also, the Cat Scream Counter is both hilarious and genius—excited to see what else the Glitch community creates this year!