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Jun 2026

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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French

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June 29, 2026Episode 2333 min

[DE] Forschungssoftware für die Zukunft - FutuRSI - mit F Mannseicher, F Schlegelmilch

Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser letzten Folge vor der Sommerpause (und der letzten dieser Halbjahresserie) schaue ich mir, zusammen mit meinen Gästen Florian Mannseicher und Falk Schlegelmilch, das Projekt FutuRSI an. Brauchen wir eine nationale Einrichtung zur Forschungssoftware. Und wie soll die aussehen und funktionieren. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links: https://klaus-tschira-stiftung.de/ Klaus Tschira Stiftung https://www.futursi.de/ Homepage von FutuRSI https://www.futursi.de/partner/ Partner Organisationen Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 22, 2026Episode 2235 min

[EN] ByteSized: Security by Design - Secure Data Principles for Digital Research with E Sheppard, M Hardaker

English Edition: making your code and data safe(r) is the theme of this ByteSized online class and podcast episode. Madalyn Hardaker and Ellie Sheppard from King's College London will tell us why it is crucial to do something about it right from the start. Links: Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 15, 2026Episode 2136 min

[EN] What happened to agile development? - A review with Dave Thomas

English Edition: I want to come back to agile development practices with my guest Dave Thomas, or Pragmatic Dave as he is also known in the trade. Dave is one of the authors of the manifesto for agile development - and we talk about what has become of the aims and aspirations of agile development since the manifesto's publication in 2001. Links: https://agilemanifesto.org the manifesto of agile software development https://pragdave.me/ Dave's home page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M Agile is dead by Dave Thomas - YouTube Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 10, 2026Episode 2039 min

[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 "ingenieros de software de investigación". En esta edición del podcast, Sofía Miñano y Carlos Gavidia-Calderón, ambos ingenieros de software de investigación trabajando en el Reino Unido, conversan sobre su profesión. Entre otras cosas, comentan: Cómo se puede hacer carrera en ingeniería de software de investigación. Las diferencias que ven entre construir software dentro y fuera de la comunidad científica. Los retos de la ingeniería de software y de la ciencia en Latinoamérica.. La comunidad de ingenieros de software y científicos hispanohablantes. Links Seminario “Charlas RSE en espanol”: https://charlas-rse-espanol.github.io/ Conferencia RSLA 2026: https://rs-latam.org/ ixpantia: https://www.ixpantia.com/en/ Link a la transcripción en español: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_ES.txt Link to the translated transcript in English: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_EN.txt Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 8, 2026Episode 1949 min

[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.org/wiki/PDF/A PDF A format https://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-disk history of floppy disks https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2140 The BBC Domesday project https://domesday.computinghistory.org.uk/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ The excellent Centre of Computing History in Cambridge, UK https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849567/ stability of DVDs and CDs https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/ how environmental conditions affect optical drives Conference announcements https://rse.swiss/swiss_rse_day Swiss RSE Day, 31 August 2026 https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ International Research Software Conference 7-8 September 2026, Sheffield, UK https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/ UK RSE Conference (the 10th anniversary) in Sheffield, UK 9-11 September 2026 https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2026/ 9 June 2026, Tromsoe, Norway https://events.hifis.net/event/3249/overview deRSE Collaborations workshop in Goettingen, Germany 23-25 September https://us-rse.org/usrse26/ US RSE Conference, 19-21 October 2026, San Jose, CA, USA Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 1, 2026Episode 1838 min

[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 Cleber de Lima quoted in the episode https://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ Graham's blog post on spec driven development Discussions on Spec Driven and agile development: https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Whitepaper/Is-Agile-Dead.aspx https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/agile-engineering-practices/spec-driven-development-unpacking-2025-new-engineering-practices https://dev.to/jmontagne/mckinsey-just-killed-agile-why-commando-units-are-the-only-way-to-survive-legacy-migration-40lk https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html https://ronjeffries.com/categories/dark-scrum/ "dark scrum" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamsandman_is-agile-dead-is-ai-killing-agile-development-activity-7367308312620527616--3-2/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-agile-story-points-why-im-trading-sprints-spec-driven-park-6dfke/ Some tools for spec driven development https://kiro.dev/ KIRO https://github.com/github/spec-kit GitHub’s spec-kit https://docs.tessl.io/ Tesla Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 25, 2026Episode 1740 min

[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.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm hier ist das Programm zur LNDW https://lndw-tickets.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/2535589 Tickets https://www.campusberlinbuch.de/de/Index Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 18, 2026Episode 1647 min

[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_GitHub https://docs.github.com/en/pages https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/github-for-beginners-getting-started-with-github-pages/ https://jekyllrb.com/docs/history/#v0-1-0 https://jekyllrb.com/ https://liquidjs.com/tutorials/intro-to-liquid.html https://gohugo.io/ https://jupyterbook.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_STFQc9Y2zY Sarah Gibson’s tutorial on Hugo and GitHub Pages on YouTube https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/ https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/ Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 11, 2026Episode 1528 min

[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 available https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/ the package manager https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ mamba package manager Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 4, 2026Episode 1431 min

[EN] Computing, but not as you know it: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) - 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_description_language https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learning https://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx https://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htm https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAs https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto: peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/