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What Documentation Is Really About: Showing Users You Care Through Design | Notion Just updated the recently created Docsify-This Tutorials & Workshops page, and it reminded me what documentation is really about.

NEW BLOG POST: What Documentation Is Really About: Showing Users You Care Through Design

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imo that @literaturegeek.bsky.social 's doggy has excellent taste 😆😍

There are many research hosting services out there. Lots of them want to host your work in order to mine it for profit. Knowledge Commons wants to build a coalition of researchers, teachers, students, and more, in order to resist the authoritarian effort to undermine public access to knowledge.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

This week I wrap up coaching for the year, and it's been inspiring and rewarding to work with individual and team clients in 2025! A big thank you to everyone for working with me, and sharing great conversations. Head to the blog for a little end of year coaching inspiration marendeepwell.com?p=5789

Introducing the New Stats Dashboard in KCWorks! Curious about how your collection is performing? Our new Stats Dashboard is here to help you dig into the numbers and learn more about your collection’s reach and engagement! You can view stats for individual collections in KCWorks, or for the repository as a whole.

We have an early holiday treat for you! 😍 🎁 We're delighted to introduce brand new stats dashboards for EVERY collection in KCworks! Read more on our team blog, and stay tuned on social media all this week for more highlights! about.hcommons.org/2025/12/15/i...

A graph of stats in KC Works

Oh yeah! We have a really funky new stats page for KC Works, our open scholarship repository! about.hcommons.org/2025/12/15/i...

😍 I continue to update this Bluesky guide (quick+incredibly detailed versions!): tinyurl.com/DHBluesky Aimed especially at researchers, DH, GLAM, & critical tech folks:

Added tag/sorting to my list of good starter packs (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) so you can sort to find what you like w/in my interests:
* critical/nonhype tech/data/code
* DH
* humanities
* GLAM (library/archive)
* academic/research/teach
* book history+arts/textual studies
* making/crafting

Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of a suited man pointing as if scolding toward the back of a weary woman facing away from him, with a purple spiral coming out of his scolding finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background. Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper!

Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of a suited man pointing as lecturing a surprised top-hatted passerby, with a purple spiral coming out of his scolding finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background. Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper!

Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of a seated man in a toga declaiming to another man sitting dejected with his chin on his fist, with a purple spiral coming out of the declaiming man's gesturing finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background. Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper!

Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of Paul Revere riding through a city street and casting his hand in the air as if to proclaim a warning, with a purple spiral coming out of his gesturing finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background and the edited caption "Paul Revere spreading UNSOLICITED ADVICE". Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper!

Designed covers for a paper minizine template, for an "Unsolicited Advice" series where I can just print a stack of templates & fill the pages in w/pen as I think of advice I want to share (things that worked for me, I'd recommend, etc.). Instead of being like these dudes:

Analogue kind of day… painting the sea 🌊 thanks to a beautiful gift of paints & canvas from a dear friend

Rhode Island School of Design on Instagram: "Second year graduate student in Graphic Design Deborah Khodanovich @dvoritdvorit shows us how gossip—its etymology, its practice throughout history, and it... Deborah Khodanovich, a second-year Graphic Design student at RISD, delves into the world of gossip and its historical significance. She explains how she uses her MFA to bridge the gap between textiles...

A fun #DHmakes type project at the intersection of text, textiles, fonts, and making!

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The small but mighty team that runs Knowledge Commons needs your support this week of #GivingTuesday. Donate today: givingto.msu.edu/causes-to-su...

Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.

👀ICYMI: "The worry here, of course, is that open access gets the blame for allowing AI and scholars begin to yearn, once more, for paywalls"

#OpenAccess #ScholComm @eve.gd

Support the Black Zine Fair and its participants gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Pro-tip: get your institution to co-sponsor. 📚📜

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Kudos to @profjhangiani.bsky.social, Clint Lalonde, Josie Gray, & folks across British Columbia who worked on this new report on institutions' capacity to support #OpenEducation. It is an excellent read & a great model for the rest of us!

PDF Link to report: bccampus.ca/wp-content/u...

I still remember hearing you talk about the DHRPG on Reclaim TV. Would love to know what you're thinking about updating on the syllabus for 2026.

A thread to read on a Friday, whether your art is writing or any other kind of creating. #DHmakes

🚀 Docsify v5 is getting closer! The no-build docs generator is getting:

✅ Modernized codebase & UI
✅ Dark mode + better accessibility
✅ GitHub-style callouts
✅ Enhanced keyboard navigation
✅ Improved error handling

Try the RC at: preview.docsifyjs.org

#Docsify #OpenSource #Markdown

This is awesome. The phrase "Vaporware luddite" is going to be in my head all day XD

Our next @kcommons.bsky.social release: if you have uploaded academic material - or even just entered metadata - into our Works repository, you can now pull this material in to a WordPress site, in a variety of citation formats!

about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)

Yes, absolutely! Hope you enjoyed :D

KCWorks on WP Plugin Launches on Knowledge Commons The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available on Knowledge Commons! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are using the KCSites platform or a self-hosted WordPress installation. KCWorks is an enterprise-grade repository for academic research, collaboration tools, and publishing support for scholars and institutions.

📣 EXCITEMENT ALERT 🎉 The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are creating a website on KC or a self-hosted WP installation.

🔗: about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...

An Ancient Egyptian Cat watches a mummy fold a zine. Titled "Making Zines", with captions "h/t Pilot Irwin" and "Visual Thinkery".

And a major shoutout to @visualthinkery.bsky.social, who blogged the blog-a-thon and made some amazing art for every post (including mine! 🤩) . visualthinkery.com/project/blog...

#ReclaimOpen25 was a blast! Too many awesome sessions to count. I had a great time hosting a game of Brand Actualization, and I'm excited to share the zines I made in the leadup to the conference (one on archival, one on web cryptids) #DHMakes Check them out: pilotirwin.com/project-plan...

A big thank you to everyone who took part in #ReclaimOpen25 last week! You can now catch up with all the session recordings and continue to share resources via the Discord chat www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...