dainst/idai-field
Dec 2024 – Oct 2025
5 Months active
Languages Used
ElixirMarkdownShellYAMLCSSDockerfileHEEXHTML
Technical Skills
Backend DevelopmentConfiguration ManagementDatabase ManagementDevOpsDockerDocumentation
Simon Hohl
PROFILE
Simon Hohl
Simon Hohl contributed to the dainst/idai-field repository by delivering robust backend and frontend features that improved reliability, security, and user experience. He modernized deployment workflows and enhanced startup stability by implementing Docker-based readiness checks for CouchDB, while also upgrading the Phoenix LiveView frontend and integrating IIIF image processing. Simon migrated the server stack from Cowboy to Bandit for improved security, refined file upload handling to ensure data integrity, and introduced resilient search mapping with retry logic. His work, primarily in Elixir, JavaScript, and CSS, emphasized maintainability through comprehensive documentation, rigorous testing, and ongoing code quality improvements across the stack.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
78%Features
Repository Contributions
61Total
Bugs
6
Commits
61
Features
21
Lines of code
7,659
Activity Months5
Your Network
25 people
Work History
October 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field focused on delivering reliable data presentation, robust UI behavior, and improved filtering accuracy to support business decision-making and developer productivity.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field focused on delivering reliable data presentation, robust UI behavior, and improved filtering accuracy to support business decision-making and developer productivity.
October 2025
May 2025
28 Commits • 9 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field focusing on delivering core features, security hardening, UI/UX improvements, and system resilience while maintaining quality through documentation and tests. Highlights include image processing improvements with IIIF rotation handling and dependency updates, web infrastructure hardening with CORS plug and crawl controls, UI/UX enhancements across document headings and map-based interfaces, and reliability improvements for search mappings with retry logic, complemented by ongoing documentation and code quality improvements.
May 2025
28 Commits • 9 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field focusing on delivering core features, security hardening, UI/UX improvements, and system resilience while maintaining quality through documentation and tests. Highlights include image processing improvements with IIIF rotation handling and dependency updates, web infrastructure hardening with CORS plug and crawl controls, UI/UX enhancements across document headings and map-based interfaces, and reliability improvements for search mappings with retry logic, complemented by ongoing documentation and code quality improvements.
April 2025
10 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field. Delivered reliability, security, and performance enhancements across IIIF image handling, file upload, and server stack, while upgrading core dependencies to FieldHub 3.5.0. Key outcomes included improved image request handling with strict 404 for unknown images, migration from Cowboy to Bandit, robust and integrity-preserving file uploads, and indexing fixes to ignore temporary writing files. Test coverage and configuration improvements were implemented to support future changes.
10 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field. Delivered reliability, security, and performance enhancements across IIIF image handling, file upload, and server stack, while upgrading core dependencies to FieldHub 3.5.0. Key outcomes included improved image request handling with strict 404 for unknown images, migration from Cowboy to Bandit, robust and integrity-preserving file uploads, and indexing fixes to ignore temporary writing files. Test coverage and configuration improvements were implemented to support future changes.
April 2025
March 2025
16 Commits • 4 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field focusing on business value, delivered features, and engineering improvements. The team delivered a frontend modernization, enhanced interactive mapping with persistent state, integrated IIIF-based image processing, and substantial environment upgrades, all while improving build efficiency and deployment readiness.
March 2025
16 Commits • 4 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for dainst/idai-field focusing on business value, delivered features, and engineering improvements. The team delivered a frontend modernization, enhanced interactive mapping with persistent state, integrated IIIF-based image processing, and substantial environment upgrades, all while improving build efficiency and deployment readiness.
December 2024
4 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 (dainst/idai-field): Delivered reliability improvements and deployment modernization for Field Hub. Implemented a CouchDB readiness wait with retry logic and a ping mechanism to ensure startup only after CouchDB is ready, addressing startup flakiness. Modernized deployment and documentation to reflect the latest Field Hub version, updated Docker Compose usage, and current best practices, improving onboarding and operations. These changes reduce startup failures in CI/local environments and align tooling with current workflows, enhancing overall stability and developer productivity.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 (dainst/idai-field): Delivered reliability improvements and deployment modernization for Field Hub. Implemented a CouchDB readiness wait with retry logic and a ping mechanism to ensure startup only after CouchDB is ready, addressing startup flakiness. Modernized deployment and documentation to reflect the latest Field Hub version, updated Docker Compose usage, and current best practices, improving onboarding and operations. These changes reduce startup failures in CI/local environments and align tooling with current workflows, enhancing overall stability and developer productivity.
December 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness89.6%
Maintainability89.0%
Architecture86.6%
Performance81.8%
AI Usage20.6%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
CSSDockerfileElixirHEEXHEExHTMLJavaScriptMarkdownPOShell
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI TestingAsset OptimizationAsynchronous ProgrammingAuthenticationBackend DevelopmentCLI DevelopmentCSSCSS StylingCode ClarityCode CleanupCode FormattingConfiguration ManagementData Visualization
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