Martin Paul Eve
@eve.gd
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.
Yesterday's walk in two phases. 1 Robyn lies down and refuses to walk another step. 2 Robyn gets a ride on the support vehicle and doesn't like it!
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Yesterday's walk in two phases. 1 Robyn lies down and refuses to walk another step. 2 Robyn gets a ride on the support vehicle and doesn't like it!
Today's peek inside the @kcommons.bsky.social tech lab: whenever we change the site, we have a set of automated tests that run to verify we haven't broken anything that was working before. Some of these test the code, and some test the actual site with a simulated browser. Green ticks make me happy!
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today's peek inside the @kcommons.bsky.social tech lab: whenever we change the site, we have a set of automated tests that run to verify we haven't broken anything that was working before. Some of these test the code, and some test the actual site with a simulated browser. Green ticks make me happy!
Mmm. Coming this Friday on tici taci records. Duncan Gray - Pocket Breakfast.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Mmm. Coming this Friday on tici taci records. Duncan Gray - Pocket Breakfast.
Today's progress on our new @kcommons.bsky.social profile system.
Nice photo cropping interface, so you too can become a wise owl!
Nice photo cropping interface, so you too can become a wise owl!
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today's progress on our new @kcommons.bsky.social profile system.
Nice photo cropping interface, so you too can become a wise owl!
Nice photo cropping interface, so you too can become a wise owl!
Oh boy, reviewer 2 really went to town on my Voyager book. I know it will be improved by all the suggestions made, but it is hard work doing the revisions. Here's my revision letter _so far_. I'm only in chapter two.
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Oh boy, reviewer 2 really went to town on my Voyager book. I know it will be improved by all the suggestions made, but it is hard work doing the revisions. Here's my revision letter _so far_. I'm only in chapter two.
Having a reading day with my furry little friend
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Having a reading day with my furry little friend
100 releases on tici taci records, today! ticitaci.com/releases/dun...
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
100 releases on tici taci records, today! ticitaci.com/releases/dun...
Heat map of people named in the titles of works on Pynchon -- just one of the many neat tricks that EK pulled out, purely from bibliographic metadata.
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Heat map of people named in the titles of works on Pynchon -- just one of the many neat tricks that EK pulled out, purely from bibliographic metadata.
With respect to Eamonn's talk, I wrote about the history and prevalence of secure audio rips for CDs in Eve, Martin Paul, Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (punctum books, 2021), pp 178-9.
As I say, I'd *so* love to go to this talk, but can't.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
As I say, I'd *so* love to go to this talk, but can't.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
![A page that says:
In the What.CD rules, the CD TOC plays an important role. “The Table of Contents (TOC of the extracted CD),” as they put it, “lists the tracks present on the CD, the various lengths of each track, and the order of the tracks. The TOC also lists the exact data sector values for the boundaries of each track. Differences in the TOC between two album versions typically, although not always, denote separate album editions.” On What.CD, this TOC was combined with the track peak levels: “[t]he peak level value for each track (1–100% for EAC [Exact Audio Copy] and 0.001–1.000 for XLD [X Lossless Decoder]) indicates the loudness of the track. A value of 100% for an EAC-ripped track corresponds to the maximum loudness for that track. Different album editions tend to have substantial differences in the peak level values for corresponding tracks, resulting from distinct album mastering/remastering processes for the two editions.”
Two other factors combine to yield distinct albums in the What.CD model. The first of these is track pre-gap lengths. “The pre-gap lengths,” the What.CD rules explain,
describe the amount of time separating two adjacent tracks. These periods of time typically consist of silence. This can be a good source of information for distinguishing album editions. However, because EAC and XLD both offer a number of choices with respect to gap detection the values can vary wildly (between either EAC and XLD or even between different versions of the same program) and still denote the same edition. For example, EAC offers three gap detection methods. On some CDs, using any one of the three methods will give you identical pre-gap length values. Yet on other CDs, ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hnpt7ns2lecdujegbi6qkqqm/bafkreihm44mhxka6kesadwo4evkezvotq3uhp7a6ksxe7zibtshifzbitq@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
With respect to Eamonn's talk, I wrote about the history and prevalence of secure audio rips for CDs in Eve, Martin Paul, Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (punctum books, 2021), pp 178-9.
As I say, I'd *so* love to go to this talk, but can't.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
As I say, I'd *so* love to go to this talk, but can't.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Trust in Science: Accessibility, Persistence, and the Public Good a talk by our Knowledge Commons leader, @kfitz.info, at the University of Rwanda about.hcommons.org/2025/10/27/t...
October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Trust in Science: Accessibility, Persistence, and the Public Good a talk by our Knowledge Commons leader, @kfitz.info, at the University of Rwanda about.hcommons.org/2025/10/27/t...
This also arrived today, to distract me from other reading. And thank you, @samuelmoore.org, for the kind acknowledgement at the start. It sounds as though I will enjoy this intellectual provocation.
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This also arrived today, to distract me from other reading. And thank you, @samuelmoore.org, for the kind acknowledgement at the start. It sounds as though I will enjoy this intellectual provocation.
Trip out on clock-change morning! Used the wheelchair to get to a lovely seaside cafe. Luka (the dog) had sausage and bacon.
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Trip out on clock-change morning! Used the wheelchair to get to a lovely seaside cafe. Luka (the dog) had sausage and bacon.
And, as this editorial concludes, and as we wrote: ‘What is before you today is not, of course, the end product; it is just the start’.
The Open Journals Collective, run by @theblochian.bsky.social and others, is working on large-scale transformation.
www.openjournalscollective.org
The Open Journals Collective, run by @theblochian.bsky.social and others, is working on large-scale transformation.
www.openjournalscollective.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And, as this editorial concludes, and as we wrote: ‘What is before you today is not, of course, the end product; it is just the start’.
The Open Journals Collective, run by @theblochian.bsky.social and others, is working on large-scale transformation.
www.openjournalscollective.org
The Open Journals Collective, run by @theblochian.bsky.social and others, is working on large-scale transformation.
www.openjournalscollective.org
It's open access week!
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's open access week!
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek
Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.
I'm struggling to do any cooking myself at the moment, with my upper-arm paralysis, but did manage to hold the spaghetti yesterday, looking like some kind of pasta pirate (no, the eye problems are not resolved).
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm struggling to do any cooking myself at the moment, with my upper-arm paralysis, but did manage to hold the spaghetti yesterday, looking like some kind of pasta pirate (no, the eye problems are not resolved).
tici taci records has hit 100 releases on the main label!
Huge congratulations to Dunc for everything he does to run it. It's no small feat, coordinating remixes, supplying correct and pristine metadata to distribution channels, and remixing stuff himself.
So here's to the next 100!
Huge congratulations to Dunc for everything he does to run it. It's no small feat, coordinating remixes, supplying correct and pristine metadata to distribution channels, and remixing stuff himself.
So here's to the next 100!
October 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
tici taci records has hit 100 releases on the main label!
Huge congratulations to Dunc for everything he does to run it. It's no small feat, coordinating remixes, supplying correct and pristine metadata to distribution channels, and remixing stuff himself.
So here's to the next 100!
Huge congratulations to Dunc for everything he does to run it. It's no small feat, coordinating remixes, supplying correct and pristine metadata to distribution channels, and remixing stuff himself.
So here's to the next 100!
I am trying a possible aid to make this fluid restriction less unpleasant: artifical saliva (I did not know this existed).
It makes you feel as though your mouth is hydrated and seems, therefore, to reduce thirst. It tastes sweet, but is xylitol, not sugar.
It makes you feel as though your mouth is hydrated and seems, therefore, to reduce thirst. It tastes sweet, but is xylitol, not sugar.
October 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I am trying a possible aid to make this fluid restriction less unpleasant: artifical saliva (I did not know this existed).
It makes you feel as though your mouth is hydrated and seems, therefore, to reduce thirst. It tastes sweet, but is xylitol, not sugar.
It makes you feel as though your mouth is hydrated and seems, therefore, to reduce thirst. It tastes sweet, but is xylitol, not sugar.
Can someone please tell me what this type of plug is called? My new machine runs off it, but to my great surprise wouldn't take a standard kettle lead (and therefore, right now, can't connect to my UPS system). Any help most welcome.
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Can someone please tell me what this type of plug is called? My new machine runs off it, but to my great surprise wouldn't take a standard kettle lead (and therefore, right now, can't connect to my UPS system). Any help most welcome.
There's a big report out today from Cambridge University Press about transitioning to open access and the broader academic changes needed. Interested in the language they choose to adopt for this: "radical", "collective action", and lots of "diamond" talk within.
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
October 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
There's a big report out today from Cambridge University Press about transitioning to open access and the broader academic changes needed. Interested in the language they choose to adopt for this: "radical", "collective action", and lots of "diamond" talk within.
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
It's 9am and I have already drunk this much of my total daily allowance, under fluid restriction for kidney failure. It's really tough!
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's 9am and I have already drunk this much of my total daily allowance, under fluid restriction for kidney failure. It's really tough!