ORCID iDUsing 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...
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Pangolin, Newt, Gerbil and custom ports
I have been playing around with Pangolin, a really nice management system for exposing internal services over HTTPS.
Trying out the Nurosym vagus nerve stimulator for a couple of weeks
A really good measure of how wrecked you are is your body’s “heart rate variability” (HRV). This is the difference between the gap between your heart beats. ...
What is a University Press?
I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had be...
Hacking the full site editor in WordPress
Today, I have been battling a frustrating bug. In the latest versions of Chrome and Edge, users cannot highlight text in Full Site Editor or Post/Page Editor...
Work in progress: 'Rage Against the Machine: The Politics of Open Access, Large Language Models, and the Reaction Against Open'
This morning, having been re-reading and thinking extensively about Moore, Samuel, ‘A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations between Openness and Access to R...
Open Journals Collective: Making Open Access a Reality at Scale
tl;dr: cancel your big deals and transitional agreements (they’re not working) and invest in a set of hundreds of non-APC, OA titles offered by Open Journals...