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It should be no secret that I miss Glitch. I was involved in Mozilla’s Thimble, AppMaker, and X-Ray Goggles, and when I was asked to join Glitch (who, fun fact, the Thimble community was told to join ...

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It should be no secret that I miss Glitch. I was involved in Mozilla’s Thimble, AppMaker, and X-Ray Goggles, and when I was asked to join Glitch (who, fun fact, the Thimble community was told to join back when Thimble got shelved) back in 2022, I jumped on the opportunity. Fast forward to… well, mid 2025 and we all know what happened. But while projects get shut down, my love for making dumb shit on the web (or… not so dumb shit, I’ve gotten plenty of mileage out of just putting stuff out there because I can’t possibly be the only person who cares!) will never die and so I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve spent the last 2ish months going “fine, I’ll write my own Glitch, with blackjack, and hoo- actually no let’s not add more Indonesian casino spam, let me just write something Glitch-like”. But make no mistake: it’s not Glitch, it’s not based on the Glitch codebase, and it’s explicitly not designed to scale to the insane numbers Glitch was servicing (20k concurrent projects running at any given time? Are you kidding me? I’d go broke instantly O_O) Instead it’s more designed along the philosophy of “web rings” of days past, or “mastodon” today: software that you can run your own instance of, so you and your circle of friends can make some silly (or serious!) web content, and everyone’s accountable to everyone else. If you run an instance, you promise to “police it”, and if you sign up on someone’s instance, you promise to be a good citizen of the web. No drive-by spam projects (omg the stories I could tell). And then you can “subscribe” to other instances and have their cool stuff show up in your feed, too. And because I’m me, obviously it’s going to be open source. So without further ado, I created github.com/Pomax/make-webbly-things and then to literally put my money where my mouth is, I also set up https://make.webblythings.com to show that, yes, it works. And because we’re all friends here: the domains cost me about $20, and the VPS is this amazing RackNerd deal, which is indeed an 8GB RAM, 100GB storage, 5TB/mo transfer VPS for less than $10 a month. I originally tried to deploy things on a cheap Digital Ocean droplet with 1GB of ram, and given that a Docker container (which most projects _won’t need_ , let’s be clear on this. Most projects just need a static server) can clock in at 50-150MB without doing anything, that’s not a lot of wiggle room. On 8GB ram, though… _very_ different story. Now, the idea is (again) that this is something you should first read up on, over on github and then play with a bit locally. You might hate it! (I hope you don’t, though… I kinda like it a lot myself and I’m hoping other folks will like it, too) and then if it looks like it might scratch that Glitch Itch (…can I trademark that?) then you can deploy it on your own server and get your friends to join and off you go, take back the web, and once I (…with your help??) finish up the RSS based federation, web rings are back, baby. (To be clear, I’m not calling you “baby”, babies are usually not super great at programming. Or making websites. Even with the help of AI. Nothing against babies, but I’m just saying that you’re probably not one, and I don’t think they’d be allowed to sign up for a Discourse account so there’s that, too…) Anyway, back to the matter at hand: Glitch has been shut down. This makes me sad. But I’ve lived through project shutdowns before and at this point, I’m done hoping someone else makes the thing I need so I made the thing I need and hopefully it’s the thing you need, too, and together we can carve out a portion of the internet where cool shit happens and I can link to your cool shit and you can link to mine! Head on over to the repo if that tickles your fancy, or have a look at what (a handful of folks) are doing over on https://make.webblythings.com - and if you’re curious what’s involved in setting it up locally, see the repo README… and if you’re curious what’s involved in running your own instance, head on over to “still the repo” but, specifically, the docs dir. And I know, I teased “federation” in the title and it’s not there. Yet. Let me be clear: I want this to allow for collaborative coding (using websockets), and be a federated system where any instance can sign up to any other instance’s RSS feed for folks to discover each other’s work. But I’m only one dev, so it’s all happening at “I have 30+ years of professional experience but I’m still only 1 person” pace =) I may even add WeTTY, because if I trust you, I probably trust you with console access to your own container, but that’s even more “future more” than websockets and federation. (At least I’m organized? See this issue and this issue, which cover what are probably the most important “major feature” issues, although if you see something unassigned that’s small and you think you might be able to tackle, claim it! I’d love to work with you!) And even though I’ll be repeating my own writing _**what can I do with this?**_ Well, as of September 3rd, 2025, as a visitor you can: * Load the landing page (obviously =D), * Sign up, by logging in using your GitHub account (but note that signing in doesn’t actually give you a “working” account, you first need to be approved by an admin), and * Load projects in the editor and see the code and preview. You won’t be able to edit any code, but you can look at every file that is visible to not-project-members, and you can see the resulting site running in the “preview” (which is of course not a preview at all, that’s just literally the live site). As a signed in and approved user you can: * Log in with github, after which the landing page is “your” page on the platform. * Start new projects by remixing a starter project on your landing page. * Load any project in the editor (yours or other folks’). Just like visitors, you can’t edit any projects that you’re not a member of, but you **do** get a download link that lets you download the entire project (without members-only data) as a zip file in case you want to review or remix it off-platform. * Load your own projects in the editor with full edit rights: * you can edit project settings, including the project run script and its environment variables, as well as specify whether it’s a static project (e.g. in only needs a static server pointed at a root dir in production) or a persistent project that needs a full-fat Ubuntu container to always be running in order to serve content. * you can edit project files, including auto-formatting them if they’re file types that are recognized by `prettier` (for html/css/js) or `black` (for python) * you can create a folder called `.data` that counts as the only safe place to put private project data * you can download your project without it omitting anything * you can force-restart your project’s docker container, which is useful for when it gets stuck, or when you’re running a project that does auto-reload things when you change source files. * Remix projects, using the sparkle button. This creates a new copy of the public code parts with either a name you pick, or “yourusername-projectname” (so you’ll probably want to rename it afterwards!). And as an admin you can: * Do all the above, plus view the admin page, which lets you: * see a list of users, with options to enable/disable, (un)suspend, and delete their accounts. * see a list of projects, with options to (un)suspend, and delete projects * see a list of active docker containers, with options to stop or remove them * see a list of active static servers, with an option to stop them. * You are also able to load suspended projects in the editor, so you can see what a project does without “running” it, and inspect and edit other folk’s project settings. Sound good? Because it sounds good to me, and I had multiple Thimble and Glitch flashbacks working on this, so hopefully this is the kind of project you want to jump in and help out on. There’s lots left to do! But even with that open issue list, there’s also just a perfectly useful platform for you and your friends to make use of. And if you decide to grab the code and run in a completely different direction with it: that’s cool too, let me know what you ended up with!

It should be no secret that I miss Glitch. I was involved in Mozilla’s Thimble, AppMaker, and X-Ray Goggles, and when I was asked to join Glitch (who, fun fact, the Thimble community was told to join back when Thimble got shelved) back in 2022, I jumped on the opportunity. Fast forward to… well, mid 2025 and we all know what happened. But while projects get shut down, my love for making dumb shit on the web (or… not so dumb shit, I’ve gotten plenty of mileage out of just putting stuff out there because I can’t possibly be the only person who cares!) will never die and so I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve spent the last 2ish months going “fine, I’ll write my own Glitch, with blackjack, and hoo- actually no let’s not add more Indonesian casino spam, let me just write something Glitch-like”. But make no mistake: it’s not Glitch, it’s not based on the Glitch codebase, and it’s explicitly not designed to scale to the insane numbers Glitch was servicing (20k concurrent projects running at any given time? Are you kidding me? I’d go broke instantly O_O) Instead it’s more designed along the philosophy of “web rings” of days past, or “mastodon” today: software that you can run your own instance of, so you and your circle of friends can make some silly (or serious!) web content, and everyone’s accountable to everyone else. If you run an instance, you promise to “police it”, and if you sign up on someone’s instance, you promise to be a good citizen of the web. No drive-by spam projects (omg the stories I could tell). And then you can “subscribe” to other instances and have their cool stuff show up in your feed, too. And because I’m me, obviously it’s going to be open source. So without further ado, I created github.com/Pomax/make-webbly-things and then to literally put my money where my mouth is, I also set up https://make.webblythings.com to show that, yes, it works. And because we’re all friends here: the domains cost me about $20, and the VPS is this amazing RackNerd deal, which is indeed an 8GB RAM, 100GB storage, 5TB/mo transfer VPS for less than $10 a month. I originally tried to deploy things on a cheap Digital Ocean droplet with 1GB of ram, and given that a Docker container (which most projects _won’t need_ , let’s be clear on this. Most projects just need a static server) can clock in at 50-150MB without doing anything, that’s not a lot of wiggle room. On 8GB ram, though… _very_ different story. Now, the idea is (again) that this is something you should first read up on, over on github and then play with a bit locally. You might hate it! (I hope you don’t, though… I kinda like it a lot myself and I’m hoping other folks will like it, too) and then if it looks like it might scratch that Glitch Itch (…can I trademark that?) then you can deploy it on your own server and get your friends to join and off you go, take back the web, and once I (…with your help??) finish up the RSS based federation, web rings are back, baby. (To be clear, I’m not calling you “baby”, babies are usually not super great at programming. Or making websites. Even with the help of AI. Nothing against babies, but I’m just saying that you’re probably not one, and I don’t think they’d be allowed to sign up for a Discourse account so there’s that, too…) Anyway, back to the matter at hand: Glitch has been shut down. This makes me sad. But I’ve lived through project shutdowns before and at this point, I’m done hoping someone else makes the thing I need so I made the thing I need and hopefully it’s the thing you need, too, and together we can carve out a portion of the internet where cool shit happens and I can link to your cool shit and you can link to mine! Head on over to the repo if that tickles your fancy, or have a look at what (a handful of folks) are doing over on https://make.webblythings.com - and if you’re curious what’s involved in setting it up locally, see the repo README… and if you’re curious what’s involved in running your own instance, head on over to “still the repo” but, specifically, the docs dir. And I know, I teased “federation” in the title and it’s not there. Yet. Let me be clear: I want this to allow for collaborative coding (using websockets), and be a federated system where any instance can sign up to any other instance’s RSS feed for folks to discover each other’s work. But I’m only one dev, so it’s all happening at “I have 30+ years of professional experience but I’m still only 1 person” pace =) I may even add WeTTY, because if I trust you, I probably trust you with console access to your own container, but that’s even more “future more” than websockets and federation. (At least I’m organized? See this issue and this issue, which cover what are probably the most important “major feature” issues, although if you see something unassigned that’s small and you think you might be able to tackle, claim it! I’d love to work with you!) And even though I’ll be repeating my own writing _**what can I do with this?**_ Well, as of September 3rd, 2025, as a visitor you can: * Load the landing page (obviously =D), * Sign up, by logging in using your GitHub account (but note that signing in doesn’t actually give you a “working” account, you first need to be approved by an admin), and * Load projects in the editor and see the code and preview. You won’t be able to edit any code, but you can look at every file that is visible to not-project-members, and you can see the resulting site running in the “preview” (which is of course not a preview at all, that’s just literally the live site). As a signed in and approved user you can: * Log in with github, after which the landing page is “your” page on the platform. * Start new projects by remixing a starter project on your landing page. * Load any project in the editor (yours or other folks’). Just like visitors, you can’t edit any projects that you’re not a member of, but you **do** get a download link that lets you download the entire project (without members-only data) as a zip file in case you want to review or remix it off-platform. * Load your own projects in the editor with full edit rights: * you can edit project settings, including the project run script and its environment variables, as well as specify whether it’s a static project (e.g. in only needs a static server pointed at a root dir in production) or a persistent project that needs a full-fat Ubuntu container to always be running in order to serve content. * you can edit project files, including auto-formatting them if they’re file types that are recognized by `prettier` (for html/css/js) or `black` (for python) * you can create a folder called `.data` that counts as the only safe place to put private project data * you can download your project without it omitting anything * you can force-restart your project’s docker container, which is useful for when it gets stuck, or when you’re running a project that does auto-reload things when you change source files. * Remix projects, using the sparkle button. This creates a new copy of the public code parts with either a name you pick, or “yourusername-projectname” (so you’ll probably want to rename it afterwards!). And as an admin you can: * Do all the above, plus view the admin page, which lets you: * see a list of users, with options to enable/disable, (un)suspend, and delete their accounts. * see a list of projects, with options to (un)suspend, and delete projects * see a list of active docker containers, with options to stop or remove them * see a list of active static servers, with an option to stop them. * You are also able to load suspended projects in the editor, so you can see what a project does without “running” it, and inspect and edit other folk’s project settings. Sound good? Because it sounds good to me, and I had multiple Thimble and Glitch flashbacks working on this, so hopefully this is the kind of project you want to jump in and help out on. There’s lots left to do! But even with that open issue list, there’s also just a perfectly useful platform for you and your friends to make use of. And if you decide to grab the code and run in a completely different direction with it: that’s cool too, let me know what you ended up with!

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