---
title: "Handmade Seattle 2024"
meta_title: "Handmade Seattle 2024"
description: "Handmade Seattle 2024"
year: 2024
draft: false
layout: year_page
banner:
  title: "<span class='seattle-color'>Handmade Seattle 2024</span>"
  content: "We are the largest indie conferences for low-level programmers.<br> Proud to be __Fully Hybrid__.<br>"
  content_bottom: "**Seattle Center**<br><span class='text-small'>Nesholm Family Lecture Hall</span><br><br><span class='underline'>**Nov 20th - 22nd, 2024**</span><br>Private Hangouts on Friday, Nov 22nd"
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  section_class: "mb-0 pb-0"
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    parallax: false
    img: "/images/seattle_skyline.webp"
    bg_class: "z-0 bg-[rgba(0,0,0,0.5)]"
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    end_color: "#fff"
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    end_dark_color: "#150e31"
  button:
    enable: true
    label: "Tickets"
    link: "/tickets"
    icon: "fa fa-ticket pl-2"
    class: "btn text-white seattle-bg"
  button2:
    enable: true
    label: "Twitch"
    link: "https://twitch.tv/abnercoimbre"
    icon: "fab fa-twitch pl-2"
    class: "btn bg-purple-700 dark:bg-purple-700 dark:text-white hover:bg-purple-800 mt-6 text-white"

# Features
features:
  - title: "This Year’s Stars"
    title_class: "text-white mb-8 text-center"
    image: ""
    side: "center"
    bg_img: 
      parallax: true
      img: "/images/devon_starfield.png"
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      start: "/images/transition2.svg"
      start_class: "mb-5 transform"
      start_color: "#fff"
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      start_dark_color: "#150e31"
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      end_class: "transform -scale-x-100"
      end_color: "#fff"
      end_style: "mask-size: cover;height:150px;"
      end_dark: "/images/transition3.svg"
      end_dark_color: "#150e31"
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      title: ""
      title_class: "text-center"
      section_class: "mb-12"
      img_title_class: "text-center text-2xl"
      img_subtitle_class: "text-center"
      img_class: ""
      imgs:
        - title: "Abner Coimbre"
          title_class: "text-center text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg mb-4"
          subtitle: "Host"
          img: "/images/people/abner_2022.png"
          modal_target: "abner"
        - title: "Billy Basso"
          title_class: "text-center text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg mb-4"
          subtitle: "Creator of [Animal Well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygL8eqX12MQ)"
          img: "/images/people/billy-basso.jpg"
          modal_target: "billy"
        - title: "Anniversary Special"
          title_class: "text-center text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg mb-4"
          subtitle: "The Next Ten Years"
          img: "/images/people/abner_bvisness-scaled.jpg"
          modal_target: "anniversary"
        - title: "Allen Webster"
          title_class: "text-center text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg mb-4"
          subtitle: "Founder of [Mr. 4th](https://mr4th.com/) Lab"
          img: "/images/people/allen_square.webp"
          modal_target: "allen"
        - title: "Devine Lu Linvega"
          title_class: "text-center text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg mb-4"
          subtitle: "Co-Founder of [Hundred Rabbits](https://100r.co)"
          img: "/images/people/devine_square.webp"
          modal_target: "devine"
        - title: "Kagi Search"
          title_class: "text-center text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg mb-2"
          subtitle: "Humanize the Web"
          img: "/images/people/kagi_square.webp"
          modal_target: "kagi"
        - title: "Job Booth"
          title_class: "text-center text-white text-2xl mt-2"
          subtitle_class: "text-center text-lg text-white mb-4"
          subtitle: "Open Slots"
          img: "/images/people/resume.png"
          link: "/jobs"
    bg_color: "#0a0a0a"
    content: "**More On The Way**<br>Join the [newsletter](/news) or check out last year's speakers below."
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    button:
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      label: "Register"
      link: "/tickets"

  - title: "Fully Hybrid"
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    side: "center"
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      start_class: "mb-5 -scale-y-100 -scale-x-100"
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      start_dark_color: "#150e31"
      start_style: "mask-position: bottom;mask-repeat:repeat-x;"
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      end_class: "mt-20 transform -scale-y-100 -scale-x-100"
      end_color: "#fff"
      end_dark: "/images/transition2.svg"
      end_dark_color: "#150e31"
    bg_img: 
      parallax: false
      img: "/images/line_waves.webp"
    card_grid:
      title: ""
      title_class: "text-center"
      section_class: "mb-12"
      card_class: "dark:bg-[#150e31] bg-white rounded-lg shadow-md overflow-hidden cursor-pointer"
      card_title_class: "text-xl font-semibold mb-2 text-center"
      card_subtitle_class: "text-center dark:text-white text-black"
      card_bottom_text_class: "text-center pt-2"
      cards:
        - title: "No Vaults"
          title_class: ""
          subtitle_class: ""
          subtitle: "We don't lock recordings behind a paid vault."
          img: "/images/film.webp"
          modal_target: "vaults"
        - title: "Live Streaming"
          title_class: ""
          subtitle_class: ""
          subtitle: "Presentations streamed live in HD, with closed captioning when possible"
          img: "/images/cinema.webp"
          modal_target: "live"
        - title: "Private Chat Server"
          title_class: ""
          subtitle_class: ""
          subtitle: "Physical and online tracks communicate under the same server"
          img: "/images/revolt_mockup.webp"
          modal_target: "chat"
    image_class: "rounded-md shadow-lg"
    content: ""
    content_class: "p-4 px-6 rounded-md"
    section_class: "text-white"
  - title: "Watch Previous Years"
    title_class: "mb-4 drop-shadow-2xl"
    side: "left"
    button:
      enable: true
      label: "Media"
      link: "/media"
      icon: "fa fa-ticket pl-2"
      class: "btn text-white seattle-bg"
    image: "/images/hms_23_trailer.webp"
    image_link: "/media"
    image_class: "rounded-md shadow-lg"
    content: "See all of our previous years of talks, demos, and chats freely on our media page."
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    section_class: "text-white mt-24 pb-24"
modals:
  - active: true
    id: "abner"
    title: "Founder of Handmade Cities"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: "… and organizer of Handmade Seattle since 2019<br><br>Abner is hyper-social, having started the Handmade [Network](https://handmade.network/) when Casey Muratori needed a community for the viral Handmade Hero series. He then took charge of the conferences when Casey passed him the baton.<br><br>A programmer in his own right, Abner’s worked for NASA, Jonathan Blow, the creators of Myst, and is [rethinking](https://terminal.click) terminal emulators from scratch."
    content_class: "text-white"
    img: "/images/cities-light-mode.png"
    img_dark: "/images/cities-dark-mode-row.png" 
  - active: true
    id: "billy"
    title: "Creator of [Animal Well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygL8eqX12MQ)"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: ""
    content_class: "text-white"
    img: "/images/cities-light-mode.png"
    img_dark: "/images/cities-dark-mode-row.png" 
  - active: true
    id: "other"
    title: "devon was here"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: "devon2 was here"
    content_class: "text-white"
  - active: true
    id: "anniversary"
    title: "The Next Ten Years"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: ""
    content_class: "text-white"
  - active: true
    id: "allen"
    title: "Creative Exercises at the Low Level"
    title_class: "text-white"
    img: "/images/modals/mr4th_lab.jpg"
    content: "**An exploration of untapped potential.**<br>Starting off we’ll map out the toolchains we use for creating and running executables on desktops. Then we’ll flesh out that picture with some low level details. And finally we’ll see how we can play with the pieces that exist to see new possibilities."
    content_class: "text-white"
  - active: true
    id: "devine"
    title: "The Library Of Babel in which every book is a program"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: "We’ll wander through a corridors of a very special library, in which every book is one of the permutations of 64kb of ram."
    content_class: "text-white"
    img: "/images/modals/100r.png"
  - active: true
    id: "kagi"
    title: "High quality search results with no ads or tracking."
    img: "/images/modals/kagi_pbc.png"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: "At [Kagi](https://kagi.com/welcome), we envision a **friendly version of the internet** where users can explore, learn, and interact with confidence and ease. Our mission is to **humanize the web**, making it more accessible, ethical, and centered around the needs of individuals. We are driven by our core purpose: to **inform and educate**, empowering users with knowledge and understanding as they navigate the online world."
    content_class: "text-white"
  - active: true
    id: "vaults"
    title: "No Vaults"
    img: ""
    title_class: "text-white text-center"
    content: "**Download conference recordings straight from Vimeo**<br><br>We polish and publish presentations to our [Media Page](/media).<br><br>You can freely watch or download Handmade Seattle recordings under a Creative Commons license. ([CC BY NC-ND](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en))"
    content_class: "text-white"
  - active: true
    id: "live"
    title: "Live Streaming"
    img: "/images/nystrom.webp"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: "**High-quality experience for the online track**<br><br>Our technical producer, Phil Homan, works alongside Seattle Center A/V staff to stream all our presentations live.<br>**Stream is free, chat server is not.**<br><br>Handmade Seattle streams for free at [handmadecities.com](https://handmadecities.com/) and our [Twitch](https://twitch.tv/abnercoimbre) channel as backup. VODs are made available immediately.<br><br>All the actual chatter, however, occurs on the private chat server—you’ll want a ticket for that!"
    content_class: "text-white"
  - active: true
    id: "chat"
    title: "Private Chat Server"
    img: "/images/modals/hmc_revolt_screenshot.png"
    title_class: "text-white"
    content: "**Self-hosted to protect your data**<br>Attendees communicate at [chat.handmadecities.com](https://chat.handmadecities.com/) thanks to the open-source [Revolt](https://revolt.chat/) platform.<br><br>**Online attendees are first-class citizens**<br>During Q&A all audience questions are sourced from the chat server, whether you’re at the venue or watching the stream from a Japanese temple.<br><br>**Chat moderation done right**<br>During the event we have a moderator to keep the environment fun yet professional."
    content_class: "text-white"
---