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 Monthly Newsletter — August 2026
From the pile to the garden. From the gate to the looking. From the summary to the source. July was the month we made the work walkable. August was the month we built the instruments — and then found out what instruments cannot do. We started by building the thing that remembers for us. The Stimpunks Knowledge System went from nothing to a working system in seven days, learned to index ideas instead of filenames, and immediately told us we had been arguing from books we did not own. Then we gave it away as a template anyone can take. Then came the gates: eight automated checks on ★ stuff, each of which found real faults on its first honest run, and each of which also reported perfect health while broken. And then the corrections — our own Impact numbers, our own financials, our own counts, our own citations — published as corrections rather than quietly swapped. - Weekly Reflection for Week 35 2026
Dolly Parton died. We took the time to reflect on her life and learn from her dedication to kindness and belonging. Week 35 runs Sunday 2026-08-23 through Saturday 2026-08-29. The day headings below carry their dates. The companion piece is Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 35 2026: From the Star to the Air, From the Summary to the Source, which records what shipped. This one records what it cost. - Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 35 2026: From the Star to the Air, From the Summary to the Source
This week ★ stuff added eighteen zines, four field guides, three listening racks, a working paper and a specimen sheet — and what they kept finding was that the problem was not where the sentence had put it. A star that appears to flicker is not flickering. A moss’s deficit list is accurate and running… Read more: Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 35 2026: From the Star to the Air, From the Summary to the Source - Weekly Reflection for Week 34 2026I spent the week working on Star Stuff with Helen and hanging in Discord with community. It was a nice rhythm.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 34 2026: From the Gate to the Criterion, From the Arrival to the OriginThis week ★ stuff added nine zines and five field guides, and the most interesting thing that happened to it was a change of authorship. Three weeks ago its pieces were written after Helen Edgar. Last Tuesday one was built with her. Yesterday one arrived from her, as a draft, and shipping it took six corrections and a restructure. Meanwhile our own machinery kept reporting good health while broken — a guard that refused the right call, a coverage figure of 93% on a page whose entire argument was unindexed, a front page that lost 87% of its search records without a single error — and the things that actually caught faults were people reading and rules written down. On this site: a sixth broadside that commissioned its own glossary entry, a twentieth entry on the AI alignments page, fifty-three dead citations repaired without burying anyone’s living work, and a new Discord room for the credit that never gets given. A name in astronomy is an arrival record, never an origin record. So is a diagnosis, and so is a citation.
- Weekly Reflection for Week 33 2026Helen and I had a great time working on Star Stuff this week. It rewards exploration. I could spend a pleasant afternoon strolling it pages. That’s what I did on Sunday, enjoying what we made. Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being. We are all star stuff. This is Ryan’s… Read more: Weekly Reflection for Week 33 2026
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 33 2026: From the Gate to the Looking, From the Claim to the CreditThis week ★ stuff stopped being a pile of zines and became a library. Twenty-three numbered zines, five field guides, seven printable sheets, thirteen collections, and six automated checking gates — built, in most cases, on the same day somebody thought of them. The broadside form came home from that site to this one as a new Broadsides library. And we rewrote our own Impact page and every financial page behind it, because our published numbers had been wrong for months. We had been marking ourselves down by more than twenty points using a framework built for organizations that hold galas and buy advertising. Along the way we built the machines that check our work, found the exact edge where they stop being able to help, and paid three citation debts we had been carrying without noticing. A checker can tell you the label is legible. It cannot tell you the animal is pointed the wrong way.
- Weekly Reflection for Week 32 2026This is Ryan’s weekly reflection log for week 32. It’s a companion to the week 32 changelog. This was an exceptionally busy week. The pace was intense but satisfying. I enjoyed being in flow state — head down in zone work. Next week, though, I hope to take it much easier and enjoy the fruits… Read more: Weekly Reflection for Week 32 2026
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 32 2026: From the Pile to the Garden, From the Claim to the CountThis 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, argued it as curriculum, and gave it away as a template anyone can take. Along the way it learned to index ideas instead of filenames, told us which books we had been arguing from without owning, and caught us being wrong in public more times than we would like. Bus factor 1 is a design failure, and the mechanism is almost never a bus.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — July 2026From 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.