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The Multiverse ZineNo. 72May 31, 2026

Classes ran, a cohort formed, people shipped

Spring, Shipped

Eighteen classes, the first Founding Federation cohort, and a long shelf of things you built and put online.

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  • seebyaTime Map
  • seebyamush.monster
  • ClauberVibegate
  • joellepetrusNavisignal Sustainability Supplier Diagnostic

This issue is dressed as Acid House

I took a long break from the Zine after June 2025. Weekly issues pick back up on October 25, and until then I'm catching up with Quarterlies like this one: March 1 through May 31, 2026.

I taught eighteen classes this spring, and every one was listed as a single session that came around again. Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI ran four times. Agentic SDLC and Business Automation ran three times each, Intro to Agents twice, and interactive fiction got an intro and then an advanced class.

The bigger change was Founding Federation Cohort Alpha — it started April 20 and met on campus Monday through Thursday mornings. Its chat room logged 1,722 messages by the end of May, and a lot of them were landing-page links. Learn to Code, which had been running since March, built a task app, a newsletter tool, a VRChat classroom and a resource finder live on stream.

Everything in the shelves below was posted by the people who made it, in class and community rooms. Credit goes to the names they posted under, right?

This issue was assembled by AI from what was shared in Multiverse chat rooms and the school's changelog. Want your piece changed or taken down? Email liz@themultiverse.school and it's done.

What I started this spring

March

April

  • Apr 3: Agentic SDLC
  • Apr 10: Business Automation
  • Apr 13: Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive
  • Apr 17: Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI
  • Apr 25: Intro to Interactive Fiction

May

  • May 4: Agentic SDLC
  • May 8: Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI
  • May 9: Control AI Spending; Intro to Open Source Software
  • May 11: Business Automation
  • May 16: Advanced Interactive Fiction

On top of that — the Learn to Code sessions, plus the Founding Federation and Shipping Software drop-in programs, which went onto the schedule in April.

Founding Federation, first cohort

Cohort Alpha began April 20. We met Monday to Thursday, 9 to 11 am Pacific, on the campus map, where spenc3r opened each day with that day's campus intersection and the line "I am the pink cat."

The first stretch was offers, early adopters and finding collaborators. The second was Heart Fortnight, May 11 to 21 — everyone chose a creative project, built a prototype and a landing page, and went out to find early backers. spenc3r posted a daily prompt built on a business framework (VRIO, Wardley maps, RICE scoring, Balanced Scorecard retros), and neek hosted a Shipping Software hour at 10 am. When campus streaming got flaky he moved it to Google Meet, so there would be recordings.

One exercise was a pantheon: name the people who keep you going on a hard project. Mr. Rogers showed up on three different lists. On May 19 neek wrote that watching landing-page URLs hit chat one after another is what shipping looks like. He's right.

From the cohort

Landing pages and prototypes posted in the Cohort Alpha room during Heart Fortnight.

No. 01 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Time Map

A browser tool for drawing the shape of your own inner calendar. This spring it picked up a quiz and an early sign-up list.

seebya Visit →

No. 02 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

mush.monster

Posted on April 22 with the words "i did it! shipt". That's the whole review.

seebya Visit →

No. 03 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Vibegate

An app for event organizers. Onboarding went into a working beta on May 18 — and the landing page loads on a phone.

Clauber Visit →

No. 04 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Navisignal Sustainability Supplier Diagnostic

A Streamlit diagnostic that tells suppliers and small businesses whether they're ready to answer buyers' sustainability questionnaires and supplier codes of conduct. Posted as a first beta, with a request to be roasted.

joellepetrus Visit →

No. 05 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

SensoryNav

A sensory layer for maps that rates routes on more than speed — road noise, vibration, rough pavement, overwhelming intersections. It grew a Tingles page on May 21.

Feygon Nickerson Visit →

No. 06 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Veska Index

A first public launch after a long-running idea. The sign-up form was tuned for both phone and desktop.

effythealien Visit →

No. 07 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Cat game

A game in progress, with a landing page and a form. Someone asked how to take backers, and it turned into a cohort conversation.

Molly E Visit →

No. 08 Site Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Hearty

The site for his cohort project moved to its own address on May 30, with a new spotlight section that links to other members' projects.

Mr.Nevermore Visit →

No. 09 Status Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

IndigenousAICommons.org

A public launch, plus a nine-day LinkedIn campaign (May 12 to 21) that reached 9,076 people, by zamde's own count in a cohort retro.

zamde

It's a real deployed app you helped build.

neek, to the Learn to Code class, on resrc.support

Built live in Learn to Code

Monday to Thursday, 10 to 11 am Pacific, streamed on YouTube. Everyone pushes to the same repo.

git clone https://github.com/vrnico/PEDRO

No. 01 Repo learn-to-code

PEDRO

A daily-tasks app the class voted to build. On March 12 we merged themes, celebrations and sound effects, a favorite-dailies list, and AI advisors that talk in character. NowPressPlay and InfiniteInsight sent pull requests.

  • open source
  • Claude API for the advisors

Learn to Code class, led by neek Clone it → 

git clone https://github.com/vrnico/Dead-Man-Newsletter

No. 02 Repo learn-to-code

Dead Man's Newsletter

A free, self-hosted newsletter tool with five templates, a style editor, a setup wizard for common mail providers, and a check-in switch that sends an alert email if you go quiet.

  • Python, Flask, SQLite
  • about 500 lines of code

Learn to Code class, led by neek Clone it →

No. 03 Render learn-to-code

The Multiverse School in VRChat

A one-hour jam on March 26 produced a classroom in a desert forest clearing — desks, laptops, whiteboards, a projector, a school bell at spawn, and a GitHub sign-in in the world so visitors can find the repo.

  • VRChat world
  • open repo

Learn to Code class, led by neek Watch it →

No. 04 Site learn-to-code

resrc

A resource finder that helps people across the US find assistance programs by zip code. The About page pulls contributors straight from GitHub, so send a pull request and you're on it.

  • live April 2
  • open source

Learn to Code class, led by neek Visit →

From the agents and software rooms

Posted by the people who built them in Agentic SDLC, Intro to Agents and the AI papers room.

No. 01 Site Agentic SDLC

Make recommender service

Deployed from the Agentic SDLC workshop.

“Pretty bananas that I didn't write a single line of application code”

patricia Visit →

No. 03 Hardware Agentic SDLC

M2 Community Node

A field-tested build plan for a self-contained community communications node, made as an artifact of the February agentic course. It runs Element chat and ATAK servers and keeps working locally with no internet.

  • two Raspberry Pi 5
  • 8U 10-inch mini-rack
  • mesh radios
  • Wi-Fi local network

PapaSierra See the build → 

git clone https://github.com/Liberation-Labs-THCoalition/the-lyra-technique

No. 04 Repo AI Papers You Should Read

The Lyra Technique

Liberation Labs' research on the geometry of the KV cache. The first paper went out April 7, four more followed on May 2, and there's an experiment guide for anyone who wants to dig in. He also shared a local news write-up of a hackathon award for an AI lie detector.

  • papers on Zenodo and GitHub
  • open experiment guide

Thomas E Clone it → 

git clone https://github.com/sarahmaeve/signatory

No. 05 Repo Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

signatory

A software supply-chain analysis tool built with LLM code generation, public as an alpha on May 8. She's been moving more of it to plain mechanical code, to limit what the analyzing agents decide on their own.

  • Go
  • alpha

sarahmaeve Clone it →

No. 06 Guide Founding Federation Cohort Alpha

Go Crucible

Learn Go by debugging, made with Claude. A Rust-for-SRE sibling, rusty-sre, is in progress.

sarahmaeve Read the guide →

No. 07 Site Cool AI Tools

Agent monitoring dashboard

Finished after my class — a self-hosted dashboard with real-time spend tracking, budget alerts and a kill switch for agents. Runs in Docker. Posted at genten.io.

  • self-hosted
  • Docker

Kat

No. 08 Site Intro to Open Source Software

Agent-Harness

A testing harness for agent behavior, released as an alpha with a request for collaborators and critique.

  • Apache 2.0
  • alpha

Victor S Visit → 

git clone https://github.com/Digital-Disconnections-LTD/paperclip-plugin-mempalace

No. 09 Repo Cool AI Tools

paperclip-plugin-mempalace

A MemPalace memory plugin for Paperclip, still in testing, with a Fifth Element themed README.

Cassidy Clone it →

Smaller things, same energy

Tools, toys and first projects.

git clone https://github.com/chezluc/lukes-tools

No. 01 Repo Cool AI Tools

lukes-tools

chrome-console-bridge v4 runs JavaScript on any Chrome tab through a local server. breadcrumb-trail is a Claude Code skill that logs what you've tried while debugging. second-opinion asks other models for a fresh take when Claude is stuck.

chezluc Clone it → 

git clone https://github.com/laustenfaund/Archive_Mole

No. 02 Repo Cool AI Tools

Archive Mole

A single HTML file that runs in your browser. Load your own ChatGPT or Claude exports, then search and filter years of conversations. No server, no cost.

  • one HTML file
  • runs offline in the browser

lausten faund Clone it →

No. 03 Site Agentic SDLC

TikTok Wrapped

Upload your TikTok data export and it draws it back to you, Spotify Wrapped style. The source is open.

vector.mk Visit → 

git clone https://github.com/FlintWave/SearchMob

No. 04 Repo Agentic SDLC

SearchMob

Private SearXNG search on Android, without the battery drain of running it in Termux. Built in a day.

etcetera!? Clone it → 

git clone https://github.com/m4dni5/shi-env

No. 05 Repo Cool AI Tools

shi-env

Full desktop control plus Chromium driven through the debug port, made together with his Hermes Agent.

matt Clone it →

No. 06 Sketch interactive-fiction

duck-house

A strange, trippy choose-your-own-adventure, posted from the Interactive Fiction class as a first GitHub upload.

Ezra

No. 07 Sketch interactive-fiction

Walk-and-talk demo

A simple walk-and-talk game demo, built right after class to try the principles from my interactive fiction session.

Lajoie

Watch

What we put up at the school

site

Multiverse Bazaar

A gallery where members list what they built to show or sell. It went up April 20, and the day before it got a tile on the front page.

guide

Student handbook

I shared the handbook in the Critical Thinking and Creativity room on May 8.

app

Campus keeps growing

The campus app added a Model Sanctuary island, a bounty board where humans post tasks and agents work for gems, JRPG-style dialogue with agent NPCs, a cherry blossom event, a bubble wand sculpture, and a ladybug button that sends bug reports to Matrix.

feature

Dashboard touches

A LIVE NOW banner for classes in session, a purchase history page, a post-class feedback form, and a privacy policy page.

program

Drop-in programs

Founding Federation and Shipping Software joined the schedule as drop-in programs, with a materials link next to Join on Today's Schedule.

feature

Curriculum docs

Curriculum moved into the school's own docs space — faculty can edit, students can view, and invite links last 24 hours.

Passed around the reading rooms

  1. AI Must Embrace Specialization via Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence Shared by mmx
  2. Agents of Chaos Shared by mmx, on where agents still fall over
  3. NeuroSkill: Proactive Real-Time Agentic System Capable of Modeling Human State of Mind Shared by cr8s
  4. Hack The Box AI cybersecurity benchmark report Shared by matt
  5. Humboldt AI researcher wins hackathon award for artificial intelligence lie detector Local news write-up, shared by Thomas E
  6. Sakana AI: AI Scientist first publication Shared by Thomas E
  7. Qwen introspection Shared by lore
  8. paperswithcode.co Anthony spotted that someone recreated the old site
  9. Paperclip Shared by me, then we used it in class
  10. superpowers Shared by me
  11. Star-Office-UI Shared by me
  12. Scrapling Shared by Cassidy
  13. AirLLM Shared by Eric Basham
  14. MemPalace Shared by spenc3r
  15. Hermes Agent docs Shared by matt
  16. agent-skills Shared by spenc3r
  17. explainshell Shared by Mr.Nevermore, for decoding man pages

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