This blog is a record of our work and an invitation to community.
We publish weekly changelogs — a running account of what we built, who we read, and why it matters. We announce Campfire Learn Together sessions, where we watch and discuss talks that deepen our shared vocabulary. We host Infodumplings, a space for neurodivergent people to share what they know and love.
The blog is openly licensed. The thinking is documented on purpose. We believe showing the work is part of the work.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 32 2026: From the Pile to the Garden, From the Claim to the Count
This week we built the thing that remembers for us. The Stimpunks Knowledge System went from nothing to a working system in seven days — a shared, self-maintaining home for our research library and our organizational knowledge, mirrored to two places the whole team can reach. Then we documented it in the IT Field Guide,…
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Infodumplings: The Systems That Get Us Through the Day
Every one of us is running a system we invented ourselves. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence because the word “meds” wasn’t enough. The one drawer where the important things go so they can’t be anywhere else. The spreadsheet nobody else could parse. The playlist that means it is time to start now. The…
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Campfire Learn Together: Code for the People
For our Sunday, August 9, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Code for the People, Bao Nguyen’s documentary about open source, the open web, and the people who keep both from closing. This one is personal. I helped start WordPress and Automattic, which appear throughout the film — and the philosophy, processes,…
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Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — July 2026
From the tangle to the map. From the door to the whole building. From the warning to the welcome. June was the month the method got a name and found its ancestors. July was the month we made the work walkable.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 31 2026: From the Map to the Directory, From the Warning to the Welcome
This week we made the building easy to walk. We published a full Site Directory — every section, every page, nothing hidden behind a menu you have to guess at. We broke the House Style Guide out of its accordions so every guide has an address you can link and cite. We gave readers a…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 30 2026: From the Weather to the Compass, From the Light to the Dark
This week we read the weather out loud. We published a PESTEL and SWOT of the whole organization — strengths to be useful, weaknesses to be trusted — and set it beside our finances and governance, where anyone can check it. We gathered the nine documents we steer by into one place, so you can…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World
“There is a real problem in the way we have created the human environment as well as what we’ve done to the physical environment.” — Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World, Emmy’s Existential Zone For our Sunday, July 26 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing…
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Infodumplings: Otters Already Know How to Rest
This week we’re making the otters the whole point. We’ll put a live otter cam up on the shared screen, watch mammals do the thing we’re so often punished for doing, and talk about rest as something our animal kin practice openly and without apology. Bring your best rest in the animal world facts and…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 29 2026: From the Word to the Card, From the Bone to the Star
Two front doors opened this week, and neither one asks you to say it out loud. Cavendish Cards lets a child point instead of explain. ★ stuff says you were made of stars long before anyone asked you to earn your place. We also gave a common dread a working name, and found an Autistic…
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Infodumplings: Show Your Work, One Card at a Time
Most of what we make, we make in the dark. The half-drawn thing, the spreadsheet nobody’s seen, the mod that only works if you don’t breathe on it, the deck of cards that is fifty-five cards and two blanks and an open invitation to draw the fifty-sixth. This week’s Infodumplings is a show your work…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 28 2026: From Working to Resting, From the Quiet and the Dark to the Otters
A rest week. We let the weekly events carry it and took the recovery in the gaps. Our friends at the Lilypad Library launched their Kickstarter. Helen wrote about otters. Fungi work in the quiet and the dark, and this week, so did we.
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Campfire Munch Together: Why Don’t Fascists Eat Vegetables?
Some watch-alongs are a snack. This one is a whole pantry. The Leftist Cooks spent seven months and made a video essay nearly six hours long, and we’re going to sit with all of it in one long, gentle marathon. Bring your samefoods and your safe foods, settle your bodymind in, and let a pair…