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HTML Energy
event

HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML Energy! This year (2025), it’s happening on Saturday, August 2, 2025 around the world! Last year (2024), 22 cities hosted their own HTML Day. It happened in: Sydney, New York City, Rotterdam, Seoul, Shanghai, Toronto, Honolulu, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Stockholm, Hamburg, London, Saskatoon, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Austin, Portland (Maine), Atlanta, Lee/Lenox, and Seattle...

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elliott
note

hey, this is elliott (creator of special fish). just putting a little note out to the special fish universe ~~ i'm looking for more work. i've been hopping from freelance project to freelance project and it's not feeling sustainable anymore. i need something recurring or part-time. i'd love to be part of a community minded project, something making the web a bit better. even a small monthly thing, like designing a newsletter. if you know someone hiring for something like that lmk :)

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Ultralight School: TWA (Class)
workshop

We are hosting a few exciting classes this summer in NYC. The first is "TWA: Total Work of Art" — shapeshifting a project into digital, physical, and temporal forms. More info in link below. Applications are due on May 30, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Thanks!

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Internet Phone Book
project

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.

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x33
open call

are you aged 40 or older? i am looking for wisdom. i have 5 questions, please can i ask them to you? I am taking photographs of the end of the world and putting them in a zoomable, pannable canvas and calling it a magazine. I am trying to reconcile the poetic nonrational self and the sober and powerful scientific-industrial-capitalist methods of analysis, production and replication. i am really trying to understand i and all of us should do next. email me.

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Damned Earth Dynamics Co.
project

LIMITED ACCESS iOS BETA - STRANGER: AN ANONYMOUS AUDIO NETWORK CONNECTING TWO INDIVIDUALS THROUGH AN UNFILTERED REAL-TIME WINDOW INTO EACH OTHER'S LIVES.

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auria
project

I'm writing about community living! Posts about communication, conflict resolution, systems for food/chores/etc, living with kids, and whatever else is on my mind. I also write case studies on the details of how specific communities work.

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extrapractice
newsletter

Extra Practice is a space for working and learning in the North of Rotterdam, shared by six friends who are active in the field of art and design. Each month, a different member writes a newsletter on a topic of their interest, with contributions from the whole group. Browse our newsletter archive at the link below.

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javier
open call

PoetiCal is an experimental, collaborative publication that lives in your calendar. Authors publish texts on a date of their choosing, and you can read them in your favorite calendar app. Submissions are open now. You can submit poems, experimental pieces, diary entries, micro-essays, prose poetry, automatic writing, dialogues, aphorisms, dream logs, travel observations, shopping lists, love letters, hate letters, character sketches, found texts, and more.

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elliott
project

I made these HTML templates a while ago. You can use them out of the box, or as a way to learn how to create a website.

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