Community Open Thread #49 - January 24, 2025 🍕

Hello hello and wow, January is almost over!

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:

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?

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Okay… this is going to get some people reallllly mad: I like pepperoni, cheese, and… pineapple. Yes. pineapple.

Not much. I have been messing around with TailwindCSS.

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Pepperoni, Jalapeno, Pineapple checking in :wink:

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This just sounds like it would give me a cankersore

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the mood for me this winter is to triple down on flavors that punch you in the face. pecorino, bacon, garlic

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it’s broken… :frowning:

WHAT

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:

  1. Very fast runtime — Node replacement
  2. Very fast package manager — NPM replacement
  3. Very fast bundler — Webpack replacement
  4. Very fast built-in database — uses SQLite or Postgres
  5. Very fast websocket server
  6. Very fast HTTP server — replaces express
  7. Very fast code to exe compiler
  8. Very fast test runner — 20x faster than jest
  9. Very fast hashing library built-in
  10. Very fast HTML and JSX bundler
  11. have I mentioned it’s very fast?
  12. you can use both CJS and EJS in one single file
  13. typescript support
  14. web apis included
  15. It’s very fast. I’ve seen it for myself btw
  16. 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)
here's some more stuff

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)

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Yeah… I knew that wouldn’t over to well with certain people. :slight_smile:

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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!

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