Our “Awesome DHTools” repository has two new maintainers: Moritz Mähr and Diego Siqueira!

The Code Review Working Group of DHTech is starting the alpha phase of implementing a code review process for the digital humanities. For the initial round of reviews, we are looking for people willing to submit code for review and people willing to review someone else’s code.

Thanks to Moritz Maehr, DHTech now has a vastly improved list of curated DH related links. Have a look at them and consider adding your own tips for resources and tools as a pull request!

The first DHTech Meetup as a SIG took place on 29th of September. Members of the initial steering committee introduced themselves and shared some ongoing projects of the SIG. The attendees discussed the specific focus of DH software development in context to the wider RSE movement.

DHtech is now tweeting @dhtech_group

A survey to gauge the interest of the community for a technical mentorship program.

You should never share Django user databases between projects! But sometimes….

I wanted to migrate the old website on the server to a Docker image for Zope so I could use it in a docker-compose setup together with a standard PostgreSQL container. How hard could that be?

Doing the sensible thing, as a first step I updated to the latest Django version, which was 3.1 at that time. Trying the debugging server of Django just gave me lots of errors. After a short search I realized, that of course also Django CMS needs to be updated, which was done in a breeze. Retrying the server, lots of …

I love my job. It is very interesting and challenging, I get to learn new things all the time, and some semesters I teach, which I enjoy a lot. Some days, however, are like 2020, you just want them to end.