Cyberdecks (a.k.a. DIY laptops) are having a moment on social media! That means lots of people are getting interested in single-board computers and Linux who may never have heard of […]
💻 Cyberdeck Meetup Notes
🎙️ Iffy Books on Block By Block, from WPPM-LP & PhillyCAM
The radio reporter Milan Parker recently did a story for Block by Block that included interviews with folks from three groups that meet at Iffy Books: the IndieWeb Homebrew Website […]
✌️🤚 25 Iffy Books Projects in 2025
December is a time to get cozy, sip a warm drink, and scroll through long lists about the previous year. So make yourself a cup of tea and settle in […]
Q&A with Jathan Sadowski, author of ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism’ | June 18, 2025
A few weeks ago we hosted a virtual Q&A with Jathan Sadowski, author of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism and host of the […]
♥️ You saved Iffy Books!
Well! Our situation has turned around since last week, thanks to an outpouring of support from the community around Iffy Books. We now have a few months’ rent on hand […]
A letter from Steve at Iffy Books | June 13, 2025
In 2021 we were pushing anti-blockchain arguments. In 2022 we were pushing solar-powered music and encrypted mesh chat. We’ve been against LLMs since before ChatGPT came along, and we hope […]
🛡 Make a Faraday shield for your phone
On September 9th, 2023 we hosted a workshop on how to make a one-time-use Faraday shield for your phone to block radio communication via the cell network, wi-fi, and Bluetooth. […]
🐢 Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python
On Saturday, August 26th we hosted a self-guided Python Turtle workshop to coincide with the Philly Bookstore Crawl. It went really well! Here’s the zine we used, which you’re free […]
Notes for Router Hack Day 2 at Iffy Books
Saturday, June 24th, 20231:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. You can find this document at the following URLs: For the past few months, a handful of people in the Iffy Books […]
☀️ Circuit diagram for a solar-powered LoRa node
We’ve been hard at work running tests and writing documentation for on our upcoming workshop Let’s make a solar-powered chat network, in which we’ll build weatherproof LoRa nodes running Meshtastic to support a […]