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  • December 2025

  • Thu 4
    Flyer with an icon of a laptop and the following text in pink outlined with green: FAFIO meetup fuck around and figure it out!
    December 4 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm πŸ€” FAFIO Meetup

    πŸ€” FAFIO Meetup: Terminal Beginner Night

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    FAFIO is a new meetup for folks who want to learn new tech skills but aren't sure where to start. Let's fuck around and figure it out! This month we'll […]

  • Fri 5
    Picture of Benjamin Franklin wearing sunglasses in green on a black background. Parts of his face and clothes look like a circuit board. At the bottom it says "B-Sides Philadelphia"
    December 5 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

    🎲 B-Sides Philly

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    See y'all at B-Sides!

  • Sat 6
    Image with the following words in different fonts, colors, and angles: Make a hand-coded *holiday* SVG e-card
    December 6 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 🎊 Make a Hand-Coded SVG Holiday E-Card

    🎊 Make a Hand-Coded SVG Holiday E-Card

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Learn to make an animated SVG file using a plaintext editor and web browser. No fancy tools needed! Geany text editor Register

  • Sun 7
    Image with the following words in different fonts, colors, and angles: Make a hand-coded *holiday* SVG e-card
    December 7 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 🎊 Make a Hand-Coded SVG Holiday E-Card

    🎊 Make a Hand-Coded SVG Holiday E-Card

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Learn to make an animated SVG file using a plaintext editor and web browser. No fancy tools needed! Geany text editor Register

  • Sun 7
    '80s style pink glowing text reading "Homebrew Website Club" with a purple triangle and rainbow and grid receding into the background
    December 7 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 🏠 IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club

    🏠 IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & […]

  • Tue 9
    Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    December 9 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer […]

  • Wed 10
    Old-fashioned website screen capture with a repeated picture of a cloud in the background: Welcome To The *Making Your First Website* Workshop Learn HTML and create a home page on Neocities! Total beginners welcome! Iffy Books / Ragman WARNING: this page is under construction
    December 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm πŸ’» Make Your First Website

    🚧 Make Your First Website

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Make a home page like it's 1999! Join us at Iffy Books for a new workshop called Make Your First Website, led by Ragman a.k.a. Richard Green. You'll learn the […]

  • Thu 11
    The cover of a recent edition of 'Technics and Civilization' by Lewis Mumford, with blue and yellow overlapping circles superimposed on a photo from the '30s(?) of a train with a giant propeller on the front, with two people standing nearby
    December 11 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm βš™οΈ Neo-Luddite Reading Group

    βš™οΈ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘Technics and Civilization’ by Lewis Mumford

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    ➑️ Virtual Meetup Link Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for an invite! Full schedule: victorgom.es/neoluddite If you're joining for the first time, I'd suggest you read this before anything else for brief […]

  • Fri 12
    Animated GIF of a small circuit board with two blinking LED lights, two transistors, two capacitors, and four resistors
    December 12 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ⚑️ Beginner Soldering: Flashing LED Circuit

    ⚑️ Beginner Soldering: Flashing LED Circuit

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll learn the basics of soldering by building a tiny oscillator circuit with two transistors and two LED lights. No previous experience needed! Register:  

  • Fri 12
    Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    December 12 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering […]

  • Sat 13
    A drawing of two smiling turtles facing each other, with a wi-fi symbol over their heads. One is wearing a cowboy hat and the other is wearing a little bowler. Both turtles have computers on their backs. The text "Model Internet Club" is at the bottom in a typewriter font.
    December 13 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm πŸš‚ Model Internet Club

    πŸš‚ Model Internet Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    The Model Internet Club is back! Join us every third Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for an informal meetup focused on building small-scale computer networks. No registration needed […]

  • Sun 14
    Closeup photo of a zine with the title "Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python." There's a turtle icon on the middle of the cover with a zig-zagging line coming out of its tail, and several lines of code on the left, such as "left(90)" and "forward(10)." Text on the right says "free zine!" The Iffy Books logo and address (319 N. 11th St. 2I, PHL) are at the bottom right corner.
    December 14 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pm Private: 🐒 Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python

    🐒 Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Drop in any time from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and learn to draw cool geometric pictures using Python! It's just like Logo, the turtle drawing program that introduced a […]

  • Tue 16
    Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    December 16 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer […]

  • Wed 17
    Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    December 17 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering […]

  • Wed 17
    Book cover for 'The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003' by Steve Coll, with a photo of two people standing near barbed with a huge plume of smoke
    December 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm πŸ‘οΈ Intelligence History Reading Group: ‘Agents of Subversion’ by

    πŸ‘οΈ Intelligence History Reading Group: ‘The Achilles Trap’ by Steve Coll

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    This month we're readingThe Achilles Trap Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll 🎧 Get the audiobook on Libro.fm The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles […]

  • Thu 18
    Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    December 18 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering […]

  • Fri 19
    Animated GIF of a small circuit board with two blinking LED lights, two transistors, two capacitors, and four resistors
    December 19 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ⚑️ Beginner Soldering: Flashing LED Circuit

    ⚑️ Beginner Soldering: Flashing LED Circuit

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll learn the basics of soldering by building a tiny oscillator circuit with two transistors and two LED lights. No previous experience needed! Register:  

  • Sat 20
    A photo of an audio cassette tape, made of black plastic with a red label. The brand is BASF, and the text says "ferro super LH 90"
    December 20 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 🎡 Cassette Mixtape Session

    🎡 Cassette Mixtape Session

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we’ll help you record it to an audio cassette tape. We have plenty of tapes to share! Register:  

  • Sun 21
    A photo of an audio cassette tape, made of black plastic with a red label. The brand is BASF, and the text says "ferro super LH 90"
    December 21 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 🎡 Cassette Mixtape Session

    🎡 Cassette Mixtape Session

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we’ll help you record it to an audio cassette tape. We have plenty of tapes to share! Register: coming soon!

  • Sun 21
    A photo of an audio cassette tape, made of black plastic with a red label. The brand is BASF, and the text says "ferro super LH 90"
    December 21 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 🎡 Cassette Mixtape Session

    🎡 Cassette Mixtape Session

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we’ll help you record it to an audio cassette tape. We have plenty of tapes to share! Register:

  • Thu 25
    Super close macro photo of a snowflake. CC-BY Alexey Kljatov https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaoticmind75/46796797182/
    December 25 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

    ❄️ Closed December 25th

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    We'll be closed on December 25th. Sorry for the inconvenience! Photo CC-BY Alexey Kljatov

  • Sat 27
    Flyer with a pink toy keyboard in the background and the following text: Toy Quieting Workshop December 27 & 28 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM 404 S. 20th St., PHL
    December 27 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Is there a toy in your house that’s so loud it’s driving you up a wall? Are you just curious about electronics and sound? Join us for a hands-on workshop […]

  • Sun 28
    Flyer with a pink toy keyboard in the background and the following text: Toy Quieting Workshop December 27 & 28 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM 404 S. 20th St., PHL
    December 28 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Is there a toy in your house that’s so loud it’s driving you up a wall? Are you just curious about electronics and sound? Join us for a hands-on workshop […]

  • January 2026

  • Thu 1
    Flyer with an icon of a laptop and the following text in pink outlined with green: FAFIO meetup fuck around and figure it out!
    January 1, 2026 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm πŸ€” FAFIO Meetup

    πŸ€” FAFIO Meetup

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    FAFIO is a new meetup for folks who want to learn new tech skills but aren't sure where to start. Let's fuck around and figure it out! Feel free to […]

  • Sun 4
    Price tag with a photo of an ESP32 microcontroller, an LED screen that reads "useful info here :)" and the following text: ESP32 Breadboard Display Kit Connect to wi-fi and display weather, headlines, or transit times on a 1-inch screen! β€’ ESP32 board w/ USB-C port β€’ 0.96" OLED screen β€’ 400 tie point breadboard β€’ 3 push buttons β€’ screw terminal for power/audio β€’ 1 meter single core jumper wire β€’ mini wire cutter/stripper tool πŸ’­ Details and examples at iffybooks.net/esp32-breadboard-display
    January 4, 2026 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 🌀️ Breadboard Weather Display Workshop

    🌀️ Breadboard Weather Display Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Learn to connect an ESP32 microcontroller and an OLED screen on a breadboard to make a web-connected weather display! Register coming soon!

  • Sun 4
    Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    January 4, 2026 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    πŸ”„ Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering […]

  • Sun 4
    '80s style pink glowing text reading "Homebrew Website Club" with a purple triangle and rainbow and grid receding into the background
    January 4, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 🏠 IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club

    🏠 IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & […]

  • Tue 6
    Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    January 6, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer […]

  • Wed 7
    The symbol of the permacomputing movement, a pixel art flower 7 pixels wide and 9 pixels tall, in white on a black background.
    January 7, 2026 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm πŸ’Ύβ˜€οΈ Permacomputing + Solarpunk Meetup

    πŸ’Ύβ˜€οΈ Permacomputing + Solarpunk Meetup

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    The Permacomputing + Solarpunk meetup is the first Wednesday every other monthΒ at Iffy Books! You can join us in person (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or remotely via Jitsi Meet. […]

  • Wed 7
    Flyer with an icon of a laptop and the following text in pink outlined with green: FAFIO meetup fuck around and figure it out!
    January 7, 2026 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm πŸ€” FAFIO Meetup

    πŸ€” FAFIO Meetup

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    FAFIO is a new meetup for folks who want to learn new tech skills but aren't sure where to start. Let's fuck around and figure it out! Feel free to […]

  • Sat 10
    A drawing of two smiling turtles facing each other, with a wi-fi symbol over their heads. One is wearing a cowboy hat and the other is wearing a little bowler. Both turtles have computers on their backs. The text "Model Internet Club" is at the bottom in a typewriter font.
    January 10, 2026 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm πŸš‚ Model Internet Club

    πŸš‚ Model Internet Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    The Model Internet Club is back! Join us every third Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for an informal meetup focused on building small-scale computer networks. No registration needed […]

  • Sun 11
    Flyer with 6 LED lights attached to a Pi Pico development board, with the following text: Pico LED Hourglass Workshop βŒ› Iffy Books A programmable timer for writing, cooking, games, etc.!
    January 11, 2026 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm ⏳ Pico LED Hourglass Workshop

    ⏳ Pico LED Hourglass Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Learn to make a programmable game timer and dice with a Pi Pico microcontroller! First you’ll solder six LEDs, two switches, and a vibration motor to the board’s GPIO pins. […]

  • Tue 13
    Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    January 13, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer […]

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