☕️ Coffee Talk
2026-12-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-01-04 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-01-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-02-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-02-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-03-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-03-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Iffy Books, 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, 19146, United States
A social hangout every first and third Monday for trans and non-binary people, their significant others, and allies. We have snacks and coffee.

🎬 Make a Hand-Coded SVG Animation!
2026-12-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-01-25 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-02-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-03-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-04-26 18:00 - 20:00
Learn to make an animated SVG file using a plaintext editor and web browser. No fancy tools needed!
Geany text editor
Sublime Text
Happy Birthday example file
Register
coming soon!

⚡️ Beginner Soldering: Flashing LED Circuit
2026-12-30 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-01-13 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-01-27 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-02-10 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-02-24 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-03-10 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-03-24 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-04-07 12:00 - 13:30 and 2 more dates
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:
coming soon!

🚧 Make Your First Website
2027-01-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2027-02-08 18:00 - 20:00
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 basics of HTML and create a static site on the free hosting service Neocities. No experience necessary!
Please bring a laptop if you have one. We’re suggesting a $10–$25 donation for this workshop, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Register:
Coming soon!

💾☀️ Permacomputing + Solarpunk Meetup
2027-01-13 18:30 - 20:00, 2027-03-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2027-05-12 18:30 - 20:00
The Permacomputing + Solarpunk meetup is the first Wednesday every other month at Iffy Books! You can join us in person (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or remotely via Jitsi Meet.

➡️ Virtual meetup link
From Permacomputing.net: Permacomputing is a more sustainable approach to computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in digital technology. In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages a more sustainable approach, maximizing hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources. We do this because humans are part of nature and technology is an extension of humans, and we acknowledge that technology has been used to harm nature. We want to find out how we can practice good relations with the Earth by learning from ecological systems to leverage and re-center existing technologies and practices. We are also interested in investigating what a permacomputing way of life could be, and what sort of transformative computational culture and aesthetics it could bring forward. If you want to know more, please start reading about what is permacomputing in essence, and then dive into its principles.
Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Design Constraints in Computational Culture by Mansoux, Howell, Barok, and Heikkilä (2023)

⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group
2027-01-14 18:30 - 20:30
➡️ 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 context: What the Luddites Really Fought Against by Richard Conniff.The only expectation is that you read the chapter(s) of the book that’s listed for that meeting. You’re still welcome to participate if you haven’t done the readings as long as you are mindful. For each chapter, I’ve also noted some optional readings for context, so I’d suggest checking those out rather than reading ahead in the book. And remember, if you ever find yourself struggling with any of the readings or concepts, reach out! Either directly to me over email or to the entire group over discord.

⊕ Quarterly Bonus Workshop
2027-02-20 10:00 - 12:00
Our quarterly off-site bonus workshop for Patreon supporters. Check out our Patreon page for details!
Questions? Email iffybooks@iffybooks.net

📚 Independent Bookstore Day
2027-04-24 10:00 - 18:00
A one-day celebration of independent bookstore on the last Saturday in April. Stop by and get some books for summer!
