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 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 researcher reaching our refusal from the top of a ladder we usually climb from the bottom. - Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 28 2026: From Working to Resting, From the Quiet and the Dark to the OttersA 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.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 27 2026: From the Tangle to the Map, From the Machine to the RootThe AI pages got a map this week — a front door, a split, and three new crosswalks. Underneath them, a root: Dinah Murray, whose monotropism-and-computing work is the bloodline of everything we say about machines. And a crosswalk handed us a name we’d been missing — relational opacity, the right not to be fully decoded.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — June 2026
June, in a sentence: we named the method, measured the world by it, refused to consent to the system, and traced our lineage back to the people who taught us how. - Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 26 2026: From Convergence to Lineage, From the Bloodline to Brighter DaysThe crosswalks grew a home this week, and the new ones trace bloodlines instead of resemblances — a folk school and the freedom schools it raised. The home page named who we are before what we do. And a foundation reached out with brighter days in its name.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 25 2026: From the Clinic to the Machine, From the Watch List to the ActionFrom a model of distress to the architecture of a machine, Week 25 gave the method a name — ARLES — and read three bodies of research against it, finding the same shape each time. And the watch list became an action.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 24 2026: From the Threshold to the Frontline, From Converging Toward to Refusing to ConsentFrom research that arrives near the door and stops at the threshold of systemic action to an editorial that crosses it, Week 24 worked the line between the environmental layer and the systemic one — and named who keeps getting priced out of the room.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 23 2026: From the Work to the Way In, From Coded Out to Built ForFrom three pages that had everything but an opening to three sources that named the door code slams shut, Week 23 worked the same threshold from both sides — it built the doors we hold open and named the ones coded shut.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — May 2026: From framework to fabric. From survival to belonging. From the maps we drew to the paths you wear.May was a month with two motions running at once. We built architecture — a series hub, a /space/ design system, an evidence base citable enough to hand to a funder. And then we learned the harder lesson the architecture exists to serve: the test of a map is not how well it’s drawn. It’s whether anyone walks it. So we stopped guessing the route and read the path already worn.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 22 2026: From the Maps We Drew to the Paths You Wear, From Prescription to Desire LinesFrom a navigation overhaul rebuilt on thirty days of traffic data to Cavendish Space mapped against desire lines and lines of flight, Week 22 did the same thing in two registers — it watched where people actually go, then built for them.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 21 2026: From Pockets to Pebbles, From Survival Infrastructure to Belonging InfrastructureFrom everyday carry to card games, from glossary philosophy to content pages getting what they were owed, Week 21 built survival infrastructure and connection infrastructure at the same time — because for neurodivergent and disabled people, they are the same project.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 20 2026: From Crosswalk to Cosmos, From Framework to FabricFrom framework synthesis to glossary depth, Week 20 built the /space/ ecosystem into a citable, interconnected design system — and kept expanding the vocabulary of neurodivergent life.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 19 2026: From Series to Surface, From Glossary to GroundWeek 19 was a week of architecture and surface — simultaneously. We built series infrastructure that gives the site a new navigational logic, and we rewrote page after page to do the argumentative work they always promised. Series pages. Landing pages. Section intros. Bridge paragraphs. The site now has five named series, a hub to find them, and a homepage that says so. Underneath all of that: a Transparency Log entry, a mutual aid grant, new glossary terms, a new Infodumplings post, a Campfire, a flyer, and a Le Tigre deep dive.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — April 2026: From legibility to architecture. From ethics to universe. From pages to positions.From legibility to architecture. From ethics to universe. From pages to positions. April was a month of transformation. Pages became systems. Guardrails became arguments. A phrase became a microsite, and a microsite became a universe. We named what couldn’t be named before, showed funders who we are, gave our events a voice, and turned an ethics page into one of the most substantive things we’ve published. April, in a sentence: scattered things got gathered, and growing things got shaped.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 18 2026: From Star Stuff to Progressive LearningWeek 18 was a week of expansion and architecture. If there’s a single thread: things that had been scattered got gathered. Things that had been growing got shaped.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 17 2026: From Ethics to Architecture, From Harm Reduction to PowerWeek 17 was a week of turning ethics into architecture. The AI Collaboration ethics page has been growing since it launched. This week it grew up. Over seven days we added more than a dozen sections — on harm reduction, disability justice, engineered exclusion, the double empathy problem in code, art as community representation, MADTech… Read more: Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 17 2026: From Ethics to Architecture, From Harm Reduction to Power
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 16 2026: From Niche to Norm, From Ethics to ErosThe work this week moved through philosophy, ethics, community, and identity. We published new research integrations, expanded two glossary pages, updated our AI ethics guardrails to honor more voices, added community-facing welcome text, and held two learning events. One of them — the Campfire on Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s keynote — asked the hardest question in education: what do we actually owe the people we’re supposed to be developing?
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 15 2026: From Design to Event, From Evidence to PhilosophyWeek 15 was a full week. We published Week 14’s changelog. Then kept building. The work spread across every major register we operate in: homepage copy, glossary, brand documentation, research framing, events infrastructure, community sharing, and the Learning Space page — our most philosophically dense page — which received its most significant expansion to date. If there’s a single thread running through all of it: we made more of our thinking visible. Not just what we do, but why. Not just what we believe, but how the pieces connect.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 14 2026: From the Nervous System to the Funder BriefWeek 14 covered a lot of ground — from the micro to the macro, from individual glossary terms for nervous system states to organization-level pages built for funders.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — March 2026: From traits to patterns. From presence to permission. From checklists to infrastructure.What we built, what we learned, what we’re doing next. This newsletter pulls from our Now page, where we work in public. Read the Now Page · Get Help · Donate — 🧠🌈 March at Stimpunks From traits to patterns. From presence to permission. From checklists to infrastructure. March was a design month in the… Read more: Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — March 2026: From traits to patterns. From presence to permission. From checklists to infrastructure.
