🗓 Reduced Hours Saturday for Labor Day Weekend
We will be open Saturday, September 2nd from 2pm to 6pm, and Closed Sunday, September 3rd. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL
hacking, free culture, gardening, zines
We will be open Saturday, September 2nd from 2pm to 6pm, and Closed Sunday, September 3rd. Sorry for the inconvenience!
We'll be closed on Saturday, September 2nd and Sunday, September 3rd. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. […]
On Friday, September 8th at 6 p.m. we’re hosting a meetup run by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers. > Come join us for our monthly Open Pick Night at […]
Echo Broadcast is an exhibition at Practice Gallery that explores fear and reverence to our complex relationship to ubiquitous technologies. The show highlights artists whose works are grounded in material […]
Stop by Iffy Books any time from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 9th and make a DIY Faraday shield for your phone! It's a quick project using aluminum […]
On Saturday, September 9th at 7 p.m. we're hosting a reading and Q&A with E.G. Condé, author of the novel Sordidez. Hope to see you there! E.G. Condé is an […]
On Sunday, September 10th at 1:00 p.m. we’re hosting an introduction to Meshtastic, an application that lets you send private text messages over the air using pocket-sized LoRa radios. Here’s a link to our updated […]
Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, September 10th at 3:30 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #2I, PHL) or via […]
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. […]
On Thursday, September 14th at 6:00 p.m. we’re running a soldering workshop for beginners! Anyone can attend for free, but you’ll need to buy a circuit board with components for $6 to […]
We’re hosting a virtual meetup on Thursday, September 14th at 7 p.m. to help Meshtastic users get connected. Our goal is to make a wireless chat network across the PHL area using low-power LoRa radios. To join the […]
We'll be tabling and running a workshop at VELOCITIES 2 on Saturday, September 16th, presented by Meantime. The event will be at the Leader Theater in West Philly (4102 Lancaster […]
We'll be tabling at Philly ABC's sixth annual Running Down The Walls (RDTW) on Sunday, September 17th, starting at 10 a.m. The 5K starts at 11 a.m. See y'all there! […]
The Model Internet Club meets again on Sunday, September 17th, 1–5 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. The network is up and running! We now have a DHCP server, a DNS server with […]
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. […]
Bring your laptops and hang out with fellow community members of Philly JS Club for an evening of hacking on personal projects. ➡️ Register on Eventbrite The Philadelphia JavaScript Club, founded […]
On Saturday, September 23rd at 4 p.m. we're running a beginner-friendly workshop on steganography. You'll use the command-line program steghide to hide encrypted messages in JPEG files in a way […]
On Sunday, September 24th at 1:00 p.m. we’re hosting a workshop on creating charts and graphs with the Python programming language. We’ll use the modules matplotlib to create a range of common […]
On Sunday, September 24th at 6 p.m. we're hosting a free training session from Unity Recovery on when and how to administer naloxone (a.k.a. Narcan) to reverse the effects of […]
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. […]
On September 27th at 7:00 p.m. we'll meet to discuss the novel A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. Hope to see you there! Get the audiobook on Libro.fm.
On Thursday, September 28th from 6–8 p.m. we’re hosting an intermediate soldering session. We’ll have soldering irons and solder to share for free, as well as DIY electronics kits for sale. Or […]
Join us Friday, September 29th for an event hosted by Hackers' Assembly. Stay tuned for details!
September 30th, 2023 | 12 p.m.–dark Gray's Ferry Crescent Skatepark Learn about the movement and how to help. Connect through skillshares, music, and people. Celebrate the joy of living strong […]
~ // THE FUTURE IS AHEAD // ~ will feature 5 poets, then an open mic (in which perhaps YOU may close us out?). Doors at 6:00, first reader at 6:15, […]
Anthotypes Workshop Sunday, October 1, 2023, 1–3pm with Jazmyn Crosby, Kelsey Skaroff, and Elizabeth Shores In this hands-on workshop, participants create photographs with plants using a non-toxic technique called anthotyping. […]
On Sunday, October 1st at 3:30 p.m. we’re hosting a darning workshop and mending session. Total beginners welcome! Register:
Our next book for the Neo-Luddite Reading Group will be The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener (1950, revised 1954). Let’s split this one in three, since mostly […]
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. […]
The Philly 2600 meetup will be at Iffy Books on Friday, October 6th, starting at 6:00 p.m. See you there! > The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, […]
The Model Internet Club meets again on Saturday, October 7th, 1–5 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. The network is up and running! We now have a DHCP server, a DNS server with […]
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. […]