On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. We have used glich in many ways to experiment with federated wiki and will need to migrate our things to other homes. post 
This page is a 🍂 Decomposing Project.
Candidates to replace Bookmark Outpost
- [ ] explore val.town
- [ ] explore deno.deploy
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Jan Miksovsky is an designer/developer expert at component.kitchen on Web Components. Only interested in coding approaches that can be shared with other people. With emphasis on stylin and reuse. page
Here we demonstrate using Glitch.com to host wiki for authors. Sadly, glitch project hosting shuts down on 2025-07-08.
The title of this page optimistically hopes we'll git this bug fixed before the end of the month. Something in glitch internals seems to be interacting badly with something in wiki's internals. I believe the problem is that wiki makes assumptions about where wiki-server package and wiki-client package live on disk and that pnpm installs packages according to different conventions. There are a lot of moving parts. Below the symptoms, see a drawing what I understand of the parts and their relationships.
The original wiki replaced 404 Not Found with an invitation to the Reader to contribute to the conversation. Federated wiki's help dialog hints an an invitation to the Reader to learn about writing wiki plugins. What if the dialog included a glitch remix button for a plugin development environment?
We collect here a few javascript libraries which build on top of the postMessage API to enable cross-origin communication. Be begin this journey with experiments to enable wiki integrations via the Frame Plugin. What we found along the way invite other design questions.
Daydreams about hosting wiki on glitch.com, combining dat, and gradually minimizing the server.
In Progress
This app presents two views to the world. The first view is a mobile-friendly place for collecting bookmarks into a shared database. The second view is a federation outpost that presents those bookmarks as wiki pages which could be forked into the federation. app lineup glitch
Reviewed—requires work
We suggest a new workflow for collaborative research which consists of a gathering phase followed by reflection and then synthesis.
This javascript snippet and the installed turtle items are the results of an experiment with Outpost Thinking.
We seek to bring previous javascript experiments with turtle geometry to wiki. We are porting a turtle geometry editor from a previous jQuery-based implementation to a modern ES6 implementation. In our most recent branch we have a proof-of-concept that our editor can save geometry into the memory of a seran-wiki outpost where it can be included in a node-based wiki and forked into the wider federation.
The Journal Fork Survey finds a number of pages that were forked from wikis or wiki outposts hosted at glitch.me. For example: Incident Cognitive Costs apparently began life via the bookmark outpost
Survey results from 4/20/2025, 12:07:59 PM.
Framed has a frame pointing to a project at glitch. We found it inside the Frame Script Survey. Will want to look more closely.
Survey results from 5/24/2025, 1:57:20 PM.
Enumerating many attempts to make wiki hosting easier. Reflecting on the many dead ends in this years-long random walk over possible solutions feels discouraging. Why is this so difficult?
Reviewed—no work required
Pages referenced under this pagefold may still benefit from a link to information about the end of life for glitch.
Daydreams about hosting wiki on glitch.com, combining dat, and gradually minimizing the server.
An experience report from several years of living and learning with wiki. Before I learned of the federation, I was experimenting with turtle geometry in web browsers. I discovered a need for turtle authors to share drawings (which are also programs) & primitives (which are a lot like functions). Although, I have yet to bring my geometry experiments to wiki, the meandering journey of learning and exploring has been deeply rewarding.
One of the federated wiki core contributors. I study Ward's practices like I study aikido shihan. I watch closely how they work and then copy what I can see to gradually build skills of my own.
Our forth practice together.
Inquiry into mechanisms to enable authors to edit without having to also manage a server. Speculation to connect dots between node wiki, dat wiki, glitch wiki, wiki outposts. Cinema projects static images in rapid succession to a screen—exploiting human perception to construct an illusion of motion from the frame rate. So a simple file server could project a "read-only" interactive hypermedia and authors could create the illusion of write access by external transport mechanisms. Alternate titles: Illusion of Stillness, Static Wiki, "Serverless" Wiki, Wik
An experience report from several years of living and learning with wiki. Before I learned of the federation, I was experimenting with turtle geometry in web browsers. I discovered a need for turtle authors to share drawings (which are also programs) & primitives (which are a lot like functions). Although, I have yet to bring my geometry experiments to wiki, the meandering journey of learning and exploring has been deeply rewarding.
Mads Hartman, Tracing a path to observability, is
Excited and inspired by this collaboration with Ward Cunningham. Here we share a branching story of branching graphs in hopes of revealing federated wiki as a surprisingly powerful medium for learning.
How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day. John Allspaw at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017. youtube
Ward included Graphviz in a short list of tools he has reached for over and over. We found particular inspiration from two examples: El Dorado and Exploratory Parsing.
Webmention is a simple way to notify any URL when you mention it on your site. From the receiver's perspective, it's a way to request notifications when other sites mention it. Webmention W3C
Husband, dad, friend, brother, son, uncle, cousin; programmer, martial artist, teacher, downhill skier, and (probably over-) thinker.
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A former glitch employee shares some insight about the backstory of maintenance difficulties that contributed to this shutdown. Also suggests other services... potential targets for migrating services off of glitch. blog
As indicated by the page title, this project began as a search for 'glitch.me'. We found at least one page that uses glitch.me in a wiki frame that did not get captured by this search.
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