Zines

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2023

Zine cover for "Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python" from Iffy Books. There's a silhouette of a turtle with a line trailing behind it, six lines of code with instructions like "forward(10)", and a star shape with the text "free zine!"Draw with code! An intro to
turtle graphics using Python
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Zine cover with aluminum foil in the background and the text "Make a Faraday shield for your phone at Iffy Books / presented with PRACTICE"Make a Faraday shield for
your phone
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Zine cover with a drawing of a stegosaurus wearing sunglasses and the following text: "Steganography for everyone! Learn to hide password-protected data in JPEG image files. Share info with your friends! / Iffy Books / presented with PRACTICE"Steganography for everyone!
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Zine cover with a time-lapse photo of the night sky and the text "Send files securely with Magic Wormhole: a how-to zine from Iffy Books"Send files securely with
Magic Wormhole
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Zine cover with the title "Turn data into sound & back with Minimodem," followed by a speaker icon, some 0s and 1s, and the Iffy Books logo. The background is a photo of a tape recorder in front of a computer.Turn data into sound & back
with Minimodem
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Zine cover with the title "LoRa + Meshtastic: Encrypted Messaging from Your Phone Without the Internet," followed by "July 2023 / Iffy Books + Mike Dank"LoRa + Meshtastic: Encrypted
messaging from your phone
without the internet (July 2023)
by Mike Dank + Iffy Books
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Zine cover with a photo of an Atlas Media router and the text "Install OpenWrt on an Atlas Media AMW-DBR 1200AC Router ... the E-Z way!"Install OpenWrt on an
Atlas Media AMW-DBR
1200AC Router … the E-Z way!
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First page of a printable Diceware list, with columns of words and 5-digit numbers.Printable Diceware List
for generating secure passphrases
using 6-sided dice
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First page of an instruction guide called 'Make a Solar-Powered Zoetrope!' There's a photo of a zoetrope (black cylinder with notches and drawings inside) with a solar panel attached next to the instruction text.Make a Solar-Powered Zoetrope!
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First page of the handout for the workshop "Audio Recording Basics," with the Iffy Books logo, a few paragraphs of text, and two screen captures from a cell phone.Audio Recording Basics Handout
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Zine cover with a drawing of a mushroom person holding a solar panel, the Iffy Books logo, and the text "Let's make a solar-powered chat network!"3.3V Solar Power Station Zine
Zine on GitHub (still in progress)
Zine cover with the title "We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it" by Dan McQuillanWe come to bury ChatGPT,
not to praise it
by Dan McQuillan
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Original blog post

2022

Zine cover for 'Build a Solar-Powered Music Synth,' with the Iffy Books logo in the lower left corner. In the middle of the page there's a black-and-white drawing of cute hamsters assembling electronic components on a breadboard. A spiral sun is overhead, with a curving arrow pointing at a pair of music notes.Build a Solar-Powered Music Synth
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First page of the zine 'Against Intellectual Property' by Dante Scanline. The text begins, 'As an intellectual property (IP) abolitionist, I don’t support any legal enforcement of intellectual property. IP includes things like copyright for creative works and patents for inventions and processes.'Against Intellectual Property
by Dante Scanline
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First page of the zine "What is Degrowth?" by Nelson Chu Pavlosky. The text begins, "Degrowth is the proposition that human well-being must be decoupled from economic growth, in order to ensure the survival of our civilization, humanity itself, and the biosphere."What is Degrowth?
by Nelson Chu Pavlosky
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Zine cover with a colorful gradient border and an image of a blue microcontroller next to the wi-fi symbol. The text is in a rounded sans-serif font: Spread ideas with a pocker wi-fi portal / a how-to guide from Iffy BooksSpread ideas with a pocket
wi-fi portal
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Zine cover with a music note, a video icon, and the following text: Transcode audio & video with FFmpeg: a how-to guide from Iffy BooksTranscode audio & video
with FFmpeg
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Zine cover: "Build a DIY sub-irrigated planter: a how-to zine from Iffy Books"Build a DIY sub-irrigated planter
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2021

Zine cover with a diagram of a computer network and the following text: Share a file with BitTorrent: a do-it-yourself guide from Iffy BooksShare a file with BitTorrent
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Cover of the Iffy Books zine 'Strong Encryption with a 10-Sided Die', with an illustration of a 10-sided die in psychedelic colors.Strong encryption with a
10-sided die
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Zine cover with a grid pattern and the following text: How to darn your clothes: A do-it-yourself guide from Iffy BooksHow to darn your clothes
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A repeated illustration of a fountain pen with the following text: Design a flyer with Scribus: a free, cross-platform desktop publishing applicationDesign a flyer with Scribus
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Enlarged image of a circuit board, with the following text: Digispark mouse jiggler / a how-to guide from Iffy BooksProgram a Digispark
Mouse Jiggler
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Zine cover with a diagram of a circuit board and the following text: Make noise music with MicroPython and a Pi Pico: a how-to guide from Iffy BooksMake noise music with
MicroPython and a Pi Pico
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Zine cover with the following text: Download a website with Wget / a do-it-yourself guide from Iffy BooksDownload a website with Wget
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A series of downward-facing arrows with the following text: Download videos from the web with youtube-dl / a do-it-yourself guide from Iffy BooksDownload videos from the
web with youtube-dl
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Zine cover with the following text: Scanning the Spectrum: An Intro to Software-Defined Radio with GqrxScanning the spectrum:
An intro to software-defined
radio with Gqrx
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Zine cover with line drawings of floppy disks and the following text: Is Ubuntu for me? Part 1: Boot Linux from a USB drive / a do-it-yourself-guide from Iffy BooksIs Ubuntu for me?
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First page of a how-to guide with the following text at the top: "pdfbook2 is a command-line program that can turn an ordinary PDF into a booklet."Intro to pdfbook2
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(two-page tutorial written for the
Philly Zine Fest 2021 Anthology)
First page of a two-page how-to guide, with the following text at the top: "Exiftool is a command-line program you can use to view and modify metadata for image, audio, video, and PDF files."Intro to Exiftool
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(two-page tutorial written for
Dog Bowl Zine Makers Club)
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