---
title: "Handmade Boston 2025"
subtitle: "The East Coast's premier event for systems programmers. Fully offline"
image: "/images/hmb/boston-dark-mode.svg"
layout: "event"

# Event Details
event_dates: "Saturday August 16th, 2025 (Sat 2PM)"
registration_date: "August 1st, 2025"
venue_name: "Boston Public LIbrary"
venue_address: "700 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116"

# Coming Soon Section
coming_soon_text: "We've Changed Venues!"
coming_soon_description: "We meet at the Boston Public Library, Saturday at 2PM. Check the top banner"

# Initial Speakers
initial_speakers:
  - name: "Abner Coimbre"
    topic: "Author of Terminal Click"
    affiliation: "terminal.click"
    image: "/images/people/abner.jpg"
  - name: "Caden Parker"
    topic: "Senior Graphics Programmer"
    affiliation: "vectrx.substack.com"
    image: "/images/people/caden.png"
  - name: "Gwen Lofman"
    topic: "Livecoding for Music and Visuals"
    affiliation: "glfmn.io"
    image: "/images/people/gwen.png"
  - name: "Switch Angel"
    topic: "Livecoding Co-Presenter"
    affiliation: "tinyurl.com/switchangel"
    image: "/images/people/switchangel.jpg"
  - name: "This is You"
    topic: "Audience is demoing projects"

# Call to Action Buttons
enable_newsletter: true
newsletter_link: "/news"
enable_discord: true
discord_link: "https://handmadecities.com/discord"
enable_cfp: true
cfp_link: "mailto:submissions@handmadecities.com"
cfp_deadline: "August 1st, 2025"

# Content Display
show_description: true
---

Handmade Boston brings together the brightest minds in low-level programming for inspiring technical lectures.

We're the sister event to Seattle and a fully-offline counterpart: enjoy deeper lectures exclusively in-person and make some new friends for life.