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
- Weekly Reflection for Week 41 2026
Every 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 Page
This 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.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 39 2026: From the Street to the World, From the Box to the PaintThis week the loud site got a new name and a lot more street. Stimpunks.Love moved house to stimpunks.world and became Stimpunks.World: a campground past the treeline, an Outskirts past the last streetlight, and, by Saturday night, Arlesglad Caverns underneath it all, for everything that needs things to stay the same. It gained a CB radio, the first code on the street that runs on a server, and a map in white card on a cutting mat. And from Saturday, Helen Edgar commits to it directly. On stimpunks.org, Ask answers again, search finally finds what we named, and our Privacy Policy is rewritten in plain language — after we changed the site so the page could say no. Demand Avoidance became our eighteenth Why Sheet. And every one of our sibling sites got a feed, which turned out to be a lesson about clocks.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 38 2026: From the Reader to the Peer, From the Argument to the LetterThis week the estate stopped being one person’s. Helen Edgar moved from contributor to peer across three repositories — the knowledge system, Queering.Earth, and ★ stuff — and the Map of Monotropic Experiences, which is her own artwork, got a site of its own. Five domains came into existence or changed hands: penguinpebbling.app got an address, monotropicmap.org went live, Cavendish Cards became cavendish.space, the Why Sheets got a press at whysheet.press, and stimpunks.love opened as the one site we run that is deliberately not careful. The Pattern Library went from 18 published patterns to all 56. And a special ed teacher in Portland wrote asking how to start a Neurodivergent student group — a question we could already answer across five corpora and nowhere a person could be sent.
- Weekly Reflection for Week 37 2026queering.earth did not exist on Sunday. By Saturday it was live on its own domain carrying twelve sheets, a mission, a manifesto, a privacy policy, a search, and ten automated gates. It is a Stimpunks Foundation × More Realms collaboration with Helen Edgar, reading art, literature, poetry, politics, people, and history through a queering lens — built as ★ stuff’s deliberate opposite, a herbarium sheet in daylight against a night sky.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 37 2026: From the Gate to the Instrument, From the Byline to the LabelThis week a site that did not exist on Sunday went live on its own domain and published twelve sheets, a mission, a manifesto, a privacy policy, a search, an accession register of its own errors, and ten automated gates. queering.earth is a Stimpunks Foundation × More Realms collaboration reading art, literature, poetry, politics, people, and history through a queering lens — sibling to ★ stuff and built as its deliberate opposite, a herbarium sheet in daylight against a night sky. Alongside it ★ stuff shipped zines numbered 89 through 110, two field guides, a specimen sheet, a Trigger, a Glimmer Wire, and a shelf for four-year-olds.