Code for Thought

Mar 03 2025 163 ep. 31 mins 64

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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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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Project Management with GitHub

Mar 03 2025 28 mins

English Edition: How can repository services like GitHub or GitLab help you manage your project. Listen to my conversation with three guests, Gemma Turon (Ersilia), Ben Clifford (Parsl) and Mike Simpson (Uni Newcastle) how they use GitHub PM tools effectively in their work. Links: https://ersilia.io Ersilia project - Gemma Turonhttps://github.com/ersilia-os GitHub pages for Ersilia

[DE] TEACH Konferenz in Berlin im November 2024 - ein Rückblick

Feb 24 2025 41 mins

Deutsche Ausgabe: Ende November 2024 fand in Berlin ein Austausch von Ausbildern und Tutoren bei Helmholtz statt - unter dem Namen TEACH. Wie kann man dem wachsenden Bedarf and Weiterbildung gerecht werden und welche Mittel und Tools helfen dabei. In diesem kleinen Rückblick spreche ich mit den OrganisatorInnen und Sprechern der Veranstaltung: Prof Silke Schworm, Jolanta Zjuba, Fr

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Design with a capital D - Zihao Lu and Meag Doherty

Feb 17 2025 31 mins

English Edition: together with Meag Doherty and Zihao Lu I want to shine a light on UX/UI design in research and put the capital "D" back into it. The way we design our software and research projects shapes the way not only the way they are being used, but also how successful they will be. Links: https://www.figma.com/ Figma tool for wireframinghttps://balsamiq.com Balsamiq wirefra

[FR] OCamL: un langage multi-paradigme - avec Florian Angeletti

Feb 10 2025 43 mins

Edition française: Nous sommes ravi d'accueillir Florian Angeletti d'INRIA, qui est très connu pour son travail sur OCamL (anciennement Objective CamL), le langage multi-paradigme. OCamL est Open Source et très utilisé dans le métier de la recherche. Mais aussi dans certains secteurs industriels. https://ocaml.orghttps://dev.realworldocaml.orghttps://perso.quaesituri.org/flori

[EN] An Emerging Voice - Deborah Udoh

Feb 04 2025 30 mins

I met Deborah at the Research Software Engineering 2024 conference in Newcastle, UK, where she gave an impassioned speech about her drive to carve out a new career and new opportunities in STEM. Here she talks about how she got here and the obstacles she faces. My apologies, I initially uploaded the raw version of the interview. This should now be corrected https://we-are-ols.org O

[DE] Software Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft - die Tagung in Hannover, Dezember 2024

Jan 27 2025 41 mins

Deutsche Ausgabe: Vom 2.-4. Dezember 2024 fand in Hannover die Tagung zum Thema Digitale Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft statt. Mit von der Partie waren ca 35 TeilnehmerInnen aus der Landschaft der Forschungssoftware EntwicklerInnen. Bei den Arbeitskreisen kamen dabei interessante und spannende Vorschläge heraus, wie Ihr hoffentlich in dieser Folge hören könnt. Links: https://ww

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Gestalt and Data Visualisation - Kirsty Pringle

Jan 20 2025 29 mins

Happy New Year and Welcome to Season 9 of Code for Thought. The season opens with a ByteSized RSE session - the short online courses with companion episodes for all of you who do science and write code. ByteSized RSE is sponsored by the Universe HPC project. Subject for this episode is data visualisation and how you could use the perception features of our brain (see Gestalt psycho

[EN] Keeping Time - in Memoriam of David Mills (with Harlan Stenn)

Dec 23 2024 28 mins

English Edition: In this last episode of 2024 I want to remember David Mills and his work on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). The tool that keeps our machines in sync. David Mills worked closely with Harlan Stenn from the Network Time Foundation on NTP and I was very fortunate to grab some of Harlan's time to talk to him about NTP and David Mills' contribution. Some links (by far n

[EN] A MOOC for Reproducibility - A Legrand, Ch Pouzat, K Hinsen

Dec 16 2024 38 mins

English Edition: Arnaud Legrand, Christophe Pouzat and Konrad Hinsen, three French researchers, who went through the pain of making research data and software reproducible. Out of that pain grew a set of online courses. I met with them to discuss how they developed the courses, the steps they had to go through and what the courses cover. https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/reproduci

[FR] Reproductibilité avec GUIX - P-A Bouttier, L Courtes et S Tournier

Dec 09 2024 38 mins

Edition française: GNU Guix est un gestionnaire de paquets pour GNU/Linux. Ghislain a rencontré Pierre-Antoine Bouttier, Ludovic Courtes et Simon Tournier de GUIX pour discuter de la façon dont GUIX peut aider à la reproductibilité. https://guix.gnu.org/fr/https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/guix-as-a-tool-for-computational-science/https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/using-guix-