Dear reader,
On Saturday, people meet in +37 cities to celebrate the web during The International HTML Day 2025. That’s incredible.
Among the organizers, there are many familiar names, so I feel safe to say that chances are high that you’ll meet fellow Naive Weekly readers at these gatherings. But more importantly, you’ll meet others who care about the web.
We should all extend a huge thank you to all the local organizers and to Elliott and Laurel for orchestrating all of this.
With care,
Kristoffer
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HTML Day, August 2, 2025
Albuquerque — Organized by Alex & catherine
Amsterdam — Organized by Braxton
Atlanta — Organized by Nobel Yoo
Barcelona — Organized by Fred
Berlin — Organized by Jack Murray-Brown
Berlin — Organized by Kagan
Boston — Organized by Cynthia & Katherine
Bristol, UK — Organized by QueerTech Bristol
Buenos Aires — Organized by Juan & Polbac
Cape Town — Organized by Caleb
Catskills — Organized by Christopher Roeleveld
Cologne — Organized by Samuel
Copenhagen — Organized by Hanna S.
Detroit — Organized by Connor M.
Halifax/Dartmouth — Organized by Katherine
Hudson Valley — Organized by Elliott Etzkorn
Lisbon — Organized by Djordje Vlaisavljevic
London — Organized by CranberryLemonade & Ana from Permacomputing Club
Los Angeles — Organized by Emily
Minneapolis — Organized by Forest Johnson
New Haven — Organized by Loren
New York City — Organized by Ashley & Yu & Justin
Online — Organized by Zachary Kai
Ottawa, ON — Organized by Juan & Danny
Paris — Organized by Ahmet Bugra
Philadelphia — Organized by ragman & pixel
Portland, OR — Organized by reed
San Francisco — Organized by Alex and Ash
Seattle — Organized by Brianna & Jasmine
Seoul — Organized by New Order & After New Order
Shanghai — Organized by [[rect*]]repair, shengli, & yufeng
Singapore — Organized by Lina
Sydney — Organized by Max
Tokyo — Organized by Kitasenju Design
Toronto — Organized by Garry
Victoria, BC — Organized by Seán & Kate
Washington, DC — Organized by Nadia Ford
Missing your city? Consider to organize your own HTML Day Meetup.
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Field notes
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»A sentiment we keep finding is that people want to feel again. The generation that grew up on the glass phone knows only the screen, and every screen they encounter is expected to be a touch screen. All they know is pictures under glass. We don’t need more screen, many are calling for that shift now. We need more surface — more texture, friction, feelings. Objects that keep us in the world and invite us further into reality.« — Norm in The Object I’m Holding Is Not a Phone
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Are you building technology projects that stimulate care, inquisitiveness, or self-control? Check out the AE2025 program we just launched with Apossible.
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The internet has the yellow pages (again). Elliott and I did an interview with the lovely newsletter called From the Superhighway. You’ll need to scroll a bit to read our answers.
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Calls for Participation: Graywolf Lab (Due, 28/7), SFPC Fall (Due 3/8), AE2025 (Due 15/8), Taper #15 (Due 15/8), Your Wayback Story (Due ?), Good Internet (Due ?), and The Wrong Biennale (Due 15/9).
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Poetic Web Calendar: FWB Fest (Idyllwild, 1-3/8), HTML Day (World wide, 2/8), What Hackers Yarn (Geestmerambacht, 8-12/8), the intersection of art & technology #12 (SF, 10/8), POST Design Festival (Copenhagen, 12/9), and New Ways of Seeing (Paris, 24-25/10).
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