About the Event
On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, I went to HTML Day in Los Angeles. This is a worldwide event organized by HTML Energy. Their official page for this year's event is here.
HTML Day is a neat little indie celebration for coding websites in the old-fashioned ways (a sort of Web Revivalism). I technically coded the framework of this page that day in the park, without Internet access and with placeholders for the photos. (Of course, I finished it up later at home.) The day itself was mostly about chatting and making friends.
The Los Angeles festival in particular was organized and hosted in Silver Lake Meadow by Emily D'Achiardi. More than a dozen people attended, and everyone seemed to click with each other right away. Attendees had drastically different backgrounds and experiences levels - some had been coding websites for decades, others were there to learn how to build their first. And yet we all had so much in common! A few of us also went to the Red Lion Tavern to talk more and get out of the sun.
Attendees
Here are the people who attended (alphabetical by first name) and their websites, if any. Please let me know if you're on this list and want your entry/links to be updated, removed, or added to.
- Angel - Ha-lo
- David - (didn't get a website from David)
- Echo - Are.na
- Emily - Sneaky Felix
- Ethan (me) - Personal Homepage
- Gavin - Gavart.ist
- Jenna - (no website yet)
- Kae - brain:machine / nyafanatic
- Lauren - Lauren's Many Projects
- Les Lee - Instagram
- Mehul - Github
- Michelle - Github
- Mike - herebox
- Riley - Netbeanz
- Yue - Linktree
My Disposable Camera Photos
I brought a disposable camera to the event and took 18 photos. (Technically, the last 4 were taken by someone else at the tavern.) Click each to see in full resolution.
Sitting in Silver Lake Meadow on blankets and grass.
Generating a DOM tree with a collaborative wireless bluetooth printer.
Hanging the DOM tree on a real tree in the park.
At Red Lion Tavern (taken by a stranger).
I'm really glad I got to attend this event. Can't wait to do something like this again. Thank you!