My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup
As is my custom, I am writing, for my own historical logging, to show what I read and wrote this year. This year I have been working at Knowledge Commons, wh...
Read Article →Literature • Publishing • Technology
Martin Paul Eve
Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.
Technical Lead for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State University.
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Areas of Focus
Bridging the gap between computational technology and literary studies.
Open Access
Researching, advocating for, and building open-access publishing models and technology in the humanities.
Digital Humanities
Developing computational tools for the analysis of literature.
Contemporary Fiction & Culture
Researching contemporary American fiction.
Handling 403 errors in BuddyPress's new_activity_comment
Today I had a weird problem. Our BuddyPress activity stream comments were just not working. When you clicked the reply icon, then typed a response and presse...
Read Article →ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: failed to compute cache key: failed to calculate checksum of ref XXYYZZ
Another annoying error that you can get, during a docker build, that basically does not explain what’s going on is something like:
Read Article →Lando giving '404 page not found'
I spent the morning bashing my head against a brick wall, trying to sort out a problem with my Lando install. This worked on Friday, but by Monday was misbeh...
Read Article →Using a public API, or the instability of MusicBrainz IDs
I have a script (a custom static site generator) that produces the output at https://ticitaci.com – a page for the record label on which I have released musi...
Read Article →Pangolin, Newt, Gerbil and custom ports
I have been playing around with Pangolin, a really nice management system for exposing internal services over HTTPS.
Read Article →Latest Book
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
An exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping the way we write, publish, and read in the 21st century. This book argues for a radical rethinking of scholarly communication.