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Up the hill from the concourse

The Source

Every site on The Feed’s boards starts up here, as a spring. The water lays down the stone it runs over, one thin skin of travertine at a time, and every terrace on this hill was built that way.

Each pool below is one of the repositories our sites are built in, on GitHub, and each deposit in it is a commit: one change, with a line saying what changed and whose hands made it. The newest lie at the top, nearest the spring. Press one and you are at the commit itself, with everything its message says. The sun is high up here and the stone is whiter than the sky, so every rim throws its shadow straight down into the pool below.

This room’s channel on the CB hears every new commit as it comes in, a few minutes after it is pushed, said by The Source itself; The Feed’s channel does the same for everything on its boards. Follow the room on the radio to be told, and say something back: they are there to be talked about.

Star Stuff

Every zine, field guide, broadside and working paper on starstuff.earth, and the tools that check each one before it goes up.

  1. Regenerate the derived files for Glimmer Wire edition ninec29b3c6 · · by claude and Claude Opus 5
  2. Glimmer Wire, edition nine: eight filed, six held, and a measurement …4a2948a · · by claude and Claude Opus 5
  3. Regenerate the derived files for Glimmer Wire edition eight508b764 · · by somebody GitHub does not name and Claude Opus 5
  4. Glimmer Wire, edition eight: eight filed, eight held, nine papers rea…1959092 · · by somebody GitHub does not name and Claude Opus 5
  5. Regenerate the derived files for Glimmer Wire edition seven144a313 · · by somebody GitHub does not name and Claude Opus 5
  6. Glimmer Wire, edition seven: six filed, six held, five papers read en…944396f · · by somebody GitHub does not name and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Star-Stuff/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Queering.Earth

The cabinet of sheets at queering.earth, a Stimpunks Foundation and More Realms collaboration with Helen Edgar.

  1. Sheet No. 15 corrected on its mounting day: it was still speaking as …65a4dd4 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  2. Sheet No. 15: Metaphoray, and four words that were not his990563c · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  3. A way back to the front, and the four marks that were not it7e05546 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  4. A web app manifest, and the pin Android would have cropped off the mark84c1a2a · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  5. A sync skill, and what a one-line file actually does in a merge19cea39 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  6. What the search-index merge rule actually does, measured rather than …3e9b215 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Queering-Earth/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Cavendish Space

The Cavendish Cards deck and the site that holds it. The repository kept the deck's name.

  1. One list per section, not one list per bulleta701e98 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  2. Add an RSS feed for the changeloge3c5c2c · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  3. Rewire the registry: the Pattern Library is complete at 56422a176 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  4. Wire Patterns 52–54: the anxiety cluster has a homeee85a83 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  5. Make the SPACE-TIME tiles readable with no stylesheetdf56a1d · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  6. Two framework pages: SPACE-TIME, and the inclusion design layers51c1195 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Cavendish-Cards/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Penguin Pebbling

Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren's card game about bringing somebody a small thing for no reason.

  1. Stop _headers claiming to be generated, and say what actually reads itcb4a876 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  2. Publish the changelog as RSS, out of the tool that already renders it8b01b8e · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  3. Retire the thirty prompt-card WebPs the re-set orphaned336ed40 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  4. Redraw the share card as the card the site actually draws7c6ed65 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  5. Hash _headers into the worker version, so a CSP fix actually reaches …a2a4929 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  6. CSP: add connect-src 'self', without which the worker cached nothing827e988 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Penguin-Pebbling/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Map of Monotropic Experiences

The map you can walk and the tool for drawing your own, with Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms.

  1. Publish Helen's Mapping Monotropism in Education44f677f · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  2. Give the changelog a feed, built from the same file the page is549cbcf · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  3. Update Helen's review packet: version two is built0747d43 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  4. Put land and islands first in the tray, where they can be found0d01f4d · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  5. Keep the map on screen on ordinary windows, not only tall ones691a6ab · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  6. Drag shapes out of the tray, and download the mapc3cb442 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Monotropic-Map/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

The Why Sheet Press

One-page arguments made to be printed, and the gates that measure every sheet before it reaches the press.

  1. The broadside gets its own changelog entry, and the policy says why0ba3c49 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  2. The Demand Avoidance broadside on the press47e16e1 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  3. Demand Avoidance is publishedd59b5ec · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  4. to-wordpress: decode entities before slugifying a heading9b283b9 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  5. CLAUDE.md: do not amend a commit that contains a sheet endpoint1f13756 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  6. A new sheet is a release: policy, and the AAC backfill it exposed7f07a2d · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Why-Sheets/commits.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Stimpunks.World

This street, this room included. The repository kept the name Stimpunks-Love from before the street moved to stimpunks.world.

  1. A Solarpunk patch at Brighter Days Solar Farm60a689b · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  2. Office: stimpunks.org's latest form entries on the dashboard6d2eadf · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  3. CB: a member's @moderator leaves a note on the moderators' desk7d0ed39 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  4. CB: who may call which role is Ryan's call4a6cfd5 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  5. CB: role @mentions for @moderator, @director, @board and @administratorc5d988f · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  6. Let your own cat out at Pekoe and Purrs and your own dog on the Rune89d823 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/Stimpunks-Love/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Knowledge Garden Starter

A template for keeping everything you read, save and write in one place: the pattern behind the Stimpunks Knowledge System, with nothing of ours left in it, to copy and make your own.

  1. Fix four silent failures, add reindex, pull-garden and process-inbox13d855a · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5.5
  2. Port six lessons from the upstream system: guards, and the traps that…7f19a9b · · by ryanboren
  3. A real sentence about what changed herec1208b9 · · by ryanboren
  4. CC0 the starter, and say why it isn't CC BY-SA like everything elsea12eb4d · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  5. Correct the git init warning: confusing, not destructive2062654 · · by ryanboren and Claude Opus 5
  6. Ship the Claude layer: five skills, the overrides file, and a working…2479248 · · by somebody GitHub does not name and Claude Opus 5

Spring: github.com/Stimpunks/knowledge-garden-starter/commits/main.atomRead at 00:44 UTC on 24 October 2026the repository

Go up to the springs

Every one of these repositories is public. Its commit feed is on its plate: put it in a reader and the commits come to you, on your own time. stimpunks.org’s feeds page lists them all, in this order, beside the socials and the sites’ own feeds, which are on The Feed’s boards.

Whose hands

Every deposit names whoever its commit names: the person who made it, and anybody its message credits in a Co-Authored-By line, which on these repositories is very often Claude, working with Ryan Boren or Helen Edgar. Where GitHub names nobody, the deposit says so rather than guessing. The morning timers’ own commits are left off: those are a machine reading feeds, not anybody’s work.

The repositories are Stimpunks Foundation’s, several of them made with Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms and More Realms. They are kept on GitHub, which is not affiliated with this street. Every commit’s words belong to whoever wrote them, and this room holds only their first lines. The credits are in the liner notes.

What moves in here

Nothing, at any setting. The water is always moving and the stone it leaves never is, and the stone is what is drawn.

HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT IT?

Starts wherever your device says. Nothing moves, flashes, or plays until you say so — and on the terraces, nothing moves even then.

Job marker — a chip of rim stone off the lowest pool

You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.

The job: What built the terraces?

Before the code: Every terrace on that hill was laid down a thin skin of stone at a time. By what?

Hint 1

It is in the line right under the room's name.

Hint 2

It comes up out of the spring at the top of the hill.

Last hint

W...

Give me the answer

The answer is The water that runs over it. The water: a warm spring lays down the stone it carries on everything it runs over, which is how every terrace on that hill was built.

Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.

Quest code: TRAVERTINE

Hand it in at the Adventurer’s Guild →