We Left the Workings In

The public half of the fact-check ledger, backfilled from the collection's full commit history and kept up from there. It records three kinds of change and no others: a piece added, a piece substantially revised, and a fact-check or attribution audit — typo and styling passes do not earn an entry. The corrections are the point of the page rather than something buried in it: a paraphrase we had dressed as a Sagan quote, a line credited to Baldwin that is Dr. King's, a forest-wide fungal network asserted where the literature is contested, a coinage returned to its author. Each names what we got wrong, what is right, and who caught it. Newest date first, every entry tagged New, Revised, Fact-check or Site.

Six sections: Typeface, Palette, Palette lineage, Principles, Print and Shared assets. Atkinson Hyperlegible, chosen because it was drawn for readers the standard face failed. Five accents held within sixteen points of each other in lightness, so no one collection outshouts another. Body text at 18.84:1, because full opacity is the house rule and a faded grey is a hierarchy decision made at the reader's expense. The lineage section is the honest one: the palette began as a Solarized variant and no Solarized value remains, so Solarized is cited for the method and never for the colours. Every artifact here is a single self-contained HTML file with no dependency beyond a web font.

The working behind the print rack, where every number was arrived at by printing something and finding out it was wrong: 190 × 259 mm as the intersection of A4 and US Letter, 9 mm margins rather than 10 because 0.4 mm of slack tipped a sheet onto a third page, ink on white in both media because browsers omit background graphics, borders instead of backgrounds, and five house hues darkened until they clear AA on white. Plus the three gates that measure it — and a standing list of the faults none of them can see.

A summary of Helen Edgar's essay Why Difference Comes First, held here for anyone who asks why difference gets to be the starting point rather than a deviation from a norm: the cosmic microwave background needing tiny perturbations to make any structure at all, Deleuze on difference before identity, relational quantum mechanics, and ethodiversity. Kept as backing material rather than promoted to a zine, precisely because it is a resonance across four fields and not an argument any one of them makes.

Attention, Relational, Lived Experience, Environment, Systems — the Stimpunks Design Method, upward a design order and downward a diagnosis. This page states why the acronym stays off the spreads (a named framework asks for assent before the argument does, and the fact stops doing the work the moment it becomes an example), then maps it: No. 59 runs the full ladder one rung per spread, each rung paid for by an animal on the spread before it, and its companion No. 58 runs the same rungs from a reading made before it was built while naming ARLES nowhere at all — not on a spread, not in its colophon, not in the ledger; No. 17 runs four rungs in order and has no Attention spread, which is a real gap; No. 15 descends to the floor for three spreads and then climbs; No. 42 reads downward the whole way. Against those, No. 31 occupies two rungs and says so, and No. 16 runs them out of order because its claim is about the Environment rung itself. Ends by publishing the exception rather than tidying it: four pieces already name ARLES on the page, and one draws it.

The sentence “most pages contact nobody” could not be written, and could not be fixed by rewording: until the day this page shipped, every page here fetched its typefaces from Google, handing over a reader's address before a word was rendered — on a site with no analytics script and no cookies. So the fonts were self-hosted first and the page written second. What is left is disclosed in the detail a reader needs to decide whether to care: our host counts pageviews server-side and treats distinct IP addresses as distinct visitors, quoted from its own documentation; and 292 embedded players on 13 pages still reach Google when those pages load. Including the part we got wrong the same morning. We moved 66 embeds to youtube-nocookie.com and called it a privacy win — then read Google's own description, which promises only that a view will not personalise what you are shown, and never that nothing is collected. The domain says nocookie; the documentation says non-personalised. Also: why there is no consent banner, why we decline the word anonymous, and why the Stimpunks policy for stimpunks.org — comments, logins, HubSpot — describes almost none of this site.