I have always been aware that the way that our digilib image server dealt with images with color profiles – basically it did nothing – was not perfect. But now I got a report from a project and some sample images that showed substantially washed-out colors in the image processed by digilib compared to the …

During the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 I was in my home office and I was reading all those stories on Twitter of people who suddenly learned painting or playing the guitar and I envied them for the time and energy for something new they seemed to have. My personal work situation felt pretty much the same except for …

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 work as a scientific software engineer at Arizona State University (ASU). I head the Digital Innovation Group (or short DigInG) that develops software for historians and philosophers of science. I started this group when I was a graduate student together with another PhD student and besides a pause of about a year …