Podcast "Code for Thought"

Welcome to Code for Thought, the community podcast for research software engineers and researchers who code.  Languages: English, German

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[ES] ¿Qué es la ingeniería de software de investigación?

Versión en espagñol: El software se está comiendo al mundo, y esto incluye al mundo científico. En estos días, hacer ciencia requiere también desarrollar software, ya sea usando Python para analizar datos, o construyendo aplicaciones web en JavaScript para compartir modelos computacionales con expertos. Mientras muchos científicos se encargan ellos mismos de estas tareas, otros las delegan a especialistas en desarrollo de software científico. Estos especialistas tienen el título de "ing...

Erschienen: 11.06.2026
Dauer: 00:39:50

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[EN] When Bits Rot - with C McKean, L Talboom, A Page-Mitchell

English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we're going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage media. To all of you who love all things retro - we'll be talking about floppy disks a bit. Links: https://en.wikipedia.or...

Erschienen: 09.06.2026
Dauer: 00:49:23

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[EN] Does Spec-Driven Development replace agile? With Graham Lee

English Edition: Will spec-driven development replace agile processes? My guest Graham Lee (https://chironcodex.com/ ) and I discuss if there is still a place for agile software engineering in a world of AI assisted coding. Links: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html the discussion on spec driven development by Brigitta Boeckeler https://dev.to/cleberdelima/the-end-of-agile-when-the-assumptions-beneath-your-methodology-collapse-3g12 the blog post by C...

Erschienen: 02.06.2026
Dauer: 00:38:26

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[DE] Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - mit Christina Quensel

Deutsche Ausgabe: Seit über 25 Jahren bringt die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNDW) Forschungsprojekte und ForscherInnen der Allgemeinheit näher. Zusammen mit Christina Quensel, die die LNDW leitet, habe ich mich über Ursprünge, Herausforderungen und wie es mit der LNDW weitergeht unterhalten. Die LNDW in Berlin findet am 6. Juni 2026 statt und Tickets noch am selben Tag zu haben. Also nix wie hin... Links https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/ https://www.langenachtderwis...

Erschienen: 26.05.2026
Dauer: 00:40:06

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[EN] ByteSized: create your web-site with GitHub Pages - J Cohen, S Gibson

English Edition: In this ByteSized episode & online class we're talking about GitHub Pages and how it can help you to create a web-site for your research project (reasonably) quickly. With me are Sarah Gibson and Jeremy Cohen. I'd like to thank the UK STEP-UP project and Imperial College London for supporting this show. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_GitHubhttps://docs.github.com/en/pages https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/github-for-beginn...

Erschienen: 19.05.2026
Dauer: 00:47:49

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[EN] Managing Packages with Pixi - Raniere de Silva and Wolf Vollprecht

English Edition: there is a (relatively) new kid on the block - of open source package managers. It's called Pixi: and in this episode I talk to Raniere de Silva (GESIS) and Wolf Vollprecht (Prefix - the company behind Pixi), what the tool brings to the table. Links: https://prefix.dev/ the open source company making pixi availablehttps://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/ the package managerhttps://github.com/prefix-dev/pixihttps://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ mamba package manager G...

Erschienen: 12.05.2026
Dauer: 00:28:54

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[EN] Computing, but not as you know it: FPGA (II) - with Michael McLeod

English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them. Links: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_descript...

Erschienen: 05.05.2026
Dauer: 00:31:14

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[DE] ICON oder der Weg zu einer offenen Software mit H Bockelmann, J Engels, L Schlemmer

Deutsche Ausgabe: ICON, das große Software Paket für Klimamodellierung, Wettervorhersagen und andere Anwendungsbereiche, ist auf gutem Wege Open Source Software zu werden. Aber daß das nicht immer ganz so leicht ist, werden uns in dieser Folge Hendryk Bockelmann und Jan (Jeff) Frederik Engels vom Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum und Linda Schlemmer vom Deutschen Wetterdienst erzählen. Hier ein paar Links: https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/news-archive/icon-open-source https://www.ic...

Erschienen: 28.04.2026
Dauer: 00:39:19

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[EN] Making Data Last

English Edition: preserving digital data has become essential for archives and libraries, as we have seen an explosion of content. I met with various experts in the field who talk to me about the different aspects and facets of saving our data for future generations to come: Thomas Ries (University of Austin, Texas, US), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie Mackinnon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andy Jackson (Digital Preservation Coalition, UK) and Laurisa Sastoque Pabon (University o...

Erschienen: 21.04.2026
Dauer: 01:00:50

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[EN] Meet the SSI Fellows of 2026 - Anne-Lee Steel, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern, Sara Villa

English Edition: Say hi to the new fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) - Anne-Lee Steele, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern and Sara Villa. In this episode they tell us all about the plans for their fellowship. And it covers a wide range, as you will hear. Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/anne-lee-steele Anne-Leehttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/cassandra-gould-van-praag Casshttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/samantha-aher...

Erschienen: 14.04.2026
Dauer: 00:48:09

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