How about seeing what the Declaration of Independence would look like if you were to open it up on your desk at work or on a train during your commute? Or perhaps you are interested in learning what others thought about that gripping Japanese detective novel you just read? Two new apps presented at DH2024: Reinvention & Responsibility can help you to do just that: Jisedai Reader and Booksnake.

I finally took the time to write tests, you’ll never imagine what happend next!

How the digilib image server learned to treat images with color profiles correctly and how I learned more about the weird quirks of Java’s image libraries than ever before.

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.