Stimpunks builds in public.
We document what we’re working on, when we did it, and why it matters.
This isn’t a boring revision history. It’s a living map of our collective labor, grounded in community care, neurodivergent experience, and radical transparency.
Some changelogs are technical — fixes and tweaks. Some are cultural — new language, new tools, new frameworks that shift how we think and work. All of them matter because they show the work of iteration, correction, and growth.
Whether you’re a contributor, a donor, an educator, or someone just trying to understand how we got here — this page is a window into the actual process of building Stimpunks.
We believe that default-to-open documentation is part of accountability, respect, and community trust. This is where you can see that belief in action.
What You’ll Find Here
- updates to site content
- new resources and guides
- policy changes
- structural enhancements
- bug fixes and layout improvements
- reflections on community feedback
Every entry links to published changes and often to discussions or context, so you can follow not just the what but the how and the why.
Why It Matters
In many organizations, work happens behind closed doors and is only visible once “finished.”
Stimpunks does the opposite. We show the process. We show the learning. We show the edges.
This Changelog is part of our accountability infrastructure — so the community can see:
- how priorities evolve
- how decisions are made
- how feedback shapes outcomes
- how transparency leads to trust
- “Stimpunks in motion — all the updates, in public.”
- “The work, the learning, the changes — documented.”
- “Open development. Open accountability.”
Latest Updates
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 43 2026: From the Rented Hall to Our Own Street, From the Storm to the Window Seat
This was the week we started moving home. Stimpunks.World opened forums, and its CB radio learned to notify, edit, reply, and carry direct messages, so our community can leave Discord and Stoat for a place of our own. Our team left rented tools too: the to-do list, the contacts, the grant requests, and the team’s documents all moved onto the street. Friends kept building with us. Helen Edgar built a cabin on the mountain for David Gray-Hammond and a cinema behind her yurt, and new rooms opened for asking for help, showing unfinished work, and coping. And when the street gets too loud, there is now a way out: a quiet screen to breathe on, and four low-stimulation modes. On stimpunks.org, we published a crosswalk between Christopher Emdin’s cogens and Cavendish Space, and Infodumplings met on the street itself. - Weekly Reflection for Week 42 2026
This was a week of building at other people’s pace. Helen’s asks set the order of much of the street’s work from Tuesday to Saturday, and on Thursday they ran from just after midnight until past five the next morning. People testing the CB set its order. Betsy’s lines set the Zibaldone’s, and Jess’s brief became a tree house. Nearly every room that opened this week belongs to somebody, and most of them were built while that person was there asking for the next thing. - Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 42 2026: From the Yurt to the Reading Room, From the Copy to the VoiceThis was a week of building with other people. Helen Edgar built much of her own corner of Stimpunks.World, and her Faery Yurt grew a reading room, a music room, and a wood stove you can keep going. People in our community dreamed up a sandbox and a booth where you draw yourself. People testing the street’s CB radio told us where it lost them, so we rebuilt it around them. The street also grew a whole new area, Nature’s Contribution, where one stretch of land feeds people, shelters wildlife, and makes clean power. On stimpunks.org, our plain-language home page can now be heard as well as read, and the home page welcomes people with a short film in Ryan’s own voice. And we gathered twice: once for tiny Japanese trucks, and once to ask how a fascist is made.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — September 2026
From the binder to the vote. From the reader to the peer. From the street to the world. August was the month we built the instruments. September was the month other people arrived — and almost every sentence we had written about ourselves turned out to have been written for a room with only us in it. We started by taking our governing documents out of the formation binder. Our bylaws went on the open web for the first time, published before the Board voted on them, with the founder’s-family clause deleted and quoted in full so nobody had to compare two documents. The conflict of interest form went public over our own advice to hide it. The Transparency Log got a page of its own, carrying the board meeting we missed and the empty Treasurer seat alongside the wins. Then, on 29 September, the Board voted. Every decision passed unanimously. Twelve documents are adopted, our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified, and Mila Krambo is our Treasurer. - Weekly Reflection for Week 41 2026Every day we worked this week turned up a fault that had been quiet until then. On Sunday a search result stopped short of the three rooms it needed, and nothing in the output said so. On Monday the kitchens’ allergen engine had been telling three bánh mì they held no gluten. On Tuesday three governance forms were cutting every answer off at one character, and nobody filling one in would have been told why. On Wednesday calls in Chrome were telling people they had refused a permission nobody had asked for. On Thursday a moderator could clear a channel they could not hear, and on Saturday re-importing NeuroHome would have deleted a guest’s door, and both times nothing would have said so. None of these faults was new. Four came out only because something new needed them: a manual that had to name every control, a food truck, a new power on the CB, and a guest’s room. Most of this week’s cost was paid on work we had already called done.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 41 2026: From the Kitchen to the Pub, From the Source to the PageThis week Stimpunks.World got somewhere to eat, drink, and sit down. Hey, Good Cookin’ is a community kitchen where nobody is turned away. Pekoe and Purrs is a cat café where every cat is waiting for a home. Brew and Stew is a woodland tea room lit by its own wood. And A Quiet Pint is a pub under the street whose player piano plays a roll Scott Joplin played himself. Four lots opened where the buildings stop, the CB radio got a manual and a list of who is around, and Kristina Brooke sent the street a room of her own. On stimpunks.org we published Brand Voice: How We Sound and Why, sat down with Maya Angelou and James Baldwin at Campfire, and put up four posts that WordPress’s Markdown converter never touched. And our trial of EspoCRM learned to send email, and now holds our team mailbox back to October 2021.
- Weekly Reflection for Week 40 2026This week other people arrived, and each arrival tested something we had written when it was only us. Isha Snow sent the first room anybody built for themselves, and our own tool refused it three times, once for doing exactly what our prompt asked. David Gray-Hammond’s site arrived, and showed that every site without a label had been filed as ours, two of Helen Edgar’s collaborations included. Helen’s Mac draws the edges of letters a shade differently from Ryan’s, so every share card on the street rewrote itself on every run. None of those rules was careless. Each was true of the world it was written in, and that world had fewer people in it.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 40 2026: From the Proposal to the Vote, From the Headcount to the HandleThis week our Board voted, and our governance pages stopped describing what it was about to decide. Twelve documents are adopted, our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified, and Mila Krambo joined our About page as Treasurer. On Stimpunks.World, the street became a place people meet: a Town Hall with a door for every kind of meeting, a channel and a call in every room, and the first room somebody built for themselves. It also gained a Mission, a page saying how the site is made and how we use AI, a MUD with nobody to fight, three animal shelters, and a search box. David Gray-Hammond’s NeuroHub Community joined our knowledge garden, bylines and all. And our team began moving out of Notion and HubSpot: our working documents into a shared drive our team garden can read, and our contacts, grant requests, and tasks into a trial of EspoCRM, an open source CRM.
- Weekly Reflection for Week 39 2026The faults that cost the most this week looked like virtues. For five weeks a sentence said Esmx the Porkypine was not ours to redraw, about a character we commissioned and hold the rights to, and it read as scrupulousness. A line filing us among the people a town pushes to its edges read as solidarity. A fence drawn around Helen Edgar’s gardens, to mark the edge of what we know, read to her as kept out. A refusal that could never fire read as a clean pass. Nobody questions a careful sentence or a green check, and that is how each of them got through.
- Weekly Reflection for Week 38 2026The week a second person arrived, everything that had only ever been checked by one of us turned out to have been checked by nobody. A search config correct on exactly one machine. Nine publishing hazards kept in one laptop’s memory. A scroll threshold that shut out most of the windows the feature was built for, invisible in the tall one it was tested in. Forty passages on Helen’s artwork that she had not yet read. None of them errored. All of them passed.