Software

New blog post: Simply …

A routine Django version upgrade, a chain of dependency and server updates, and an unplanned trip to the server room to recover SSH access — this post for the DHTech Blog is a candid field report on the operational side of keeping research software infrastructure running, and what it took to track …

New white paper: The DH …

At the DH 2019 conference, a group of people who broadly identify as Digital Humanities Research Software Engineers came together for a workshop. This white paper is the outcome: an attempt to draw attention to issues this community observes and experiences day to day, and an open invitation for …

New conference paper: I'm …

Digital humanities projects rely on someone actually building the tool — yet that role, and the people who fill it, often sit awkwardly between “developer” and “researcher” in how DH projects are staffed, credited, and understood. This abstract, presented at DH2019 in …

New video: Gitlab CI/CD …

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) practices support collaborative, fast-moving software development through automation. This recorded DHTech webinar walks through setting up Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for a Django project — covering automated building, testing, and deployment — alongside …