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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 learninghttps://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinxhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htmhttps://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 FPGAshttps://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as wellhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision processhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

5/4/26 • 31:14

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.icon-model.org/icon_model/getting_startedhttps://gitlab.dkrz.de/icon/icon-model https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31FjyhyyqwkvOaj_e-EbJa4F0Z0n8yGU online courseshttps://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/news/icon-team-receives-international-recognition-for-groundbreaking-achievements-in-high-performance-computing https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/announcements/2025/icon-team-wins-gordon-bell-prize-for-climate-modeling Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

4/27/26 • 39:19

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 of Southampton, UK). Some links to tools and sites mentioned in the episode:https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/format/proformatsearch.aspx?status=new  Pronom database by the National Archive in the UKhttps://www.dpconline.org/ Digital Preservation Coalitionhttps://bit-list.dpconline.org/ list of 'endangered digital material'https://thorsten-ries.net/ Thorsten Ries home pagehttps://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-preservation-southampton Digital preservation at the Uni. Southamptonhttps://arcticworldarchive.org/ Svalbard Arctic World Archive https://piql.com/ piql data preservationhttps://github.com/piql GitHub Piql - the archiving file formathttps://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/434376-preserving-today-s-digital-data-for-tomorrow https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w storing data in glass/silica https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Project Silicahttps://english.umd.edu/directory/matthew-kirschenbaum Kirschenbaum papers on recovering digital texts etc. https://www.kali.org/tools/foremost/ the open source "forensic" data tool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls going back in time: a link with a description of the Dead Sea scrolls Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

4/20/26 • 60:50

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-ahern Samanthahttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/sara-villa I'd like to thank the SSI for supporting this show. Don't forget there is the Collaborations Workshop, organised by the SSI, coming up at the end of April: 28-30 April 2026 in Belfast. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

4/13/26 • 48:09

Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser Folge machen wir uns auf die Suche nach dunkler Materie - mit dem ALPS II Experiment am Deutschen Elektron Synchroton in Hamburg. Mit meinen Gästen Axel Lindner und Sven Karstensen tauchen wir in die Welt der Axionen, mysteriöse Teilchen, und wie man sie aufspüren kann. Daneben gibt es, wie immer in der Teilchenphysik, spannende Fragen zu Software und Datenaufarbeitung. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links:https://alps.desy.de/ Die Home Page des ALPS Projektshttps://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/alps_ii/index_eng.html https://alps.desy.de/our_group/ Die ALPS II Kollaborationhttps://darkmatter-alps.desy.de/dark-matter.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

4/6/26 • 42:05

English Edition: how are real numbers e.g. 0.1 represented on computers? What can go wrong with using their representation in calculations? And does it matter? These and other questions are the subject of this ByteSized episode with my guests Prof. Ulrich Ruede (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Andreas Herten and Edoardo di Napoli (both Research Centre Juelich). Links:https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html  an online tool to convert numbers into their bit/hex equivalent - also showing the rounding errorshttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163  Goldberg Paper: What every computer scientist should know about floating pointshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02492 revisiting Goldberg, Vincent Lafagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 the Wiki entry on the IEEE 754 standard for floating points (the standard itself is not accessible for free)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place definition von "ulp"https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/floating-point-8-an-introduction-to-efficient-lower-precision-ai-training/ NVidia’s take on lower precision numbers https://indico.esa.int/event/445/contributions/8473/attachments/5559/9378/gernigon_cedric_EDHPC2023.pdf list of lower precision formatshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem Chinese remainder theoremI would like to thank the STEP-UP project in the UK for supporting this series of ByteSized episodes. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

3/30/26 • 40:30

English Edition: for this episode we're going "up North", to visit the Research Software Engineering team of the University of Newcastle. The team has been hosting the UK RSE Conference in 2022 and 2024 and here is a chance to meet at least some of the people behind it all. Links:https://rse.ncldata.dev/ Team homepagehttps://rse.ncldata.dev/team https://www.litandphil.org.uk/ oh and the great "Lit and Phil" library in Newcastle for good measure Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

3/24/26 • 57:55

English Edition: NextBrain is a next generation atlas of the human brain. Juan Eugenio Iglesias Gonzales from Massachusetts General in Boston, US, has been leading this project. My colleague James Hughes (University College London) and I were working on part of it at the time. And in this episode we explore, once again, what NextBrain is, how it evolved using AI tools in a shifting technology landscape and how it can be used in education and research. Linkshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09708-2  the published paperhttps://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextBrain/#/home  the UCL project for the browserhttps://github.com/UCL/NextBrain#  the NextBrain projecthttps://lemon.martinos.org/  Eugenio's research home pagehttps://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/  https://freesurfer.net/ https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer  Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

3/17/26 • 48:22

English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created. Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction https://www.cfel.de https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/ https://www.ccp4.ac.uk https://vimeo.com/1017833941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-electron_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_femtosecond_crystallography Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

3/10/26 • 40:09

English Edition (ByteSized): In this first episode of the new ByteSized dRTP season, sponsored by the STEP-UP programme from the EPSRC (UK) you'll meet Richard Acton. Richard created a tool to help you keep track of all the steps you should take to make your software shareable and reproducible. With checklists, built right into your GitLab, GitHub repo. Linkshttps://rsspdc.org/ home page for the checklistshttps://rsspdc.gitlab.io/slides/bytesize-workshop_2026-02-26.html#/outline https://gitlab.com/rsspdc/checklists download the checklists MD files from herehttps://www.software.ac.uk/news/software-management-plans Software management plan (SMP) from the Software Sustainability Institutehttps://ligm.univ-eiffel.fr/~teresa/presoft/ another template of a SMP from Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Paris, France) - PRESOFThttps://zenodo.org/records/1405614I'd like to thank the STEP-UP project for their support of this podcast. STEP-UP is a collaboration between Imperial College London, King's College London, University College London and the University of Westminster. STEP-UP is funded by the Engineering and Science and Physical Research Council in the UK. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

3/3/26 • 32:09

Deutsche Ausgabe:Linkshttps://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/ HCDS Hamburghttps://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/hcds/team/katrin-schoening-stierand.html https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/news/2025/20250502-rse-day.html RSE Tag in Hamburg 2025https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/current/all-events/digital-total.html Digital Total 2023Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

2/24/26 • 28:43

English Edition: with my guests Bernd Ulmann and Daniel Thuerck I am looking at the fascinating world of analog computers. Far from being "yesterday's" machines, there is a lot of interest in building analog devices. So what are they, what are they used for, and how do you work with them. Links:https://anabrid.com/ https://the-analog-thing.org https://anabrid.com/redachttps://shop.anabrid.com/collections/lucidac https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/analog-and-hybrid/9783110787887/  Bernd Ulmann's bookhttps://analog-computing-days.org/  The Analog Computing Days conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11/12 June 2026https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co64127/phillips-economic-computer  The Phillips MONIAC analog computer at the Science Museum in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2022/trickle-down-economics-phillips-machine-shows-how-macroeconomy-flows https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/charles-babbages-difference-engines-and-science-museum Part of the Difference Engine by C Babbagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule a simple "analog computer"  https://research.ibm.com/projects/analog-ai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer https://research.ibm.com/projects/analog-ai Research into analog computers at IBMGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

2/17/26 • 42:12

English Edition: making software, digital data and other artefacts count in research evaluations has always been a challenge. But there are plenty of people and initiatives like the https://hidden-ref.org in the UK who want to change research culture. And I talked to three people who are working in this field to find out what the challenges are and what they do to make software and digital technologies count (more): Simon Hettrick (Uni Southampton), Jack Atkinson (Uni Cambridge) and Will Swansborough-Aston (Uni Exeter).Links:https://hidden-ref.org/ The Hidden REF https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/what-the-ref  What the REF podcasthttps://2029.ref.ac.uk/  The Research Excellent Framework for 2029https://joss.theoj.org/  The Journal of Open Source Softwarehttps://data.agu.org/notebooks-now/ Notebooks Nowhttps://mystmd.org/guide/quickstart-jupyter-lab-myst  Myst markup language in Jupyter https://orkg.org/ Open Research Knowledge Graph Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

2/10/26 • 50:19

English Edition: It's a new season of Code for Thought. But not just any season. As of January this year, the podcast is 5 years old. And with this short trailer I want to give you a glimpse of what's ahead between now and beginning of July.Code for Thought is a community podcast. And if you have any ideas, comments or suggestions, get in touch via emailpeter@code4thought.orgor on Slack (UK and SSI) or LinkedIn or BlueSky.Thanks for all of your support and thanks for listening. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

2/3/26 • 10:58

Deutsche Ausgabe: Anfang September 2025 wurde der neue Hochleistungsrechner Jupiter in Betrieb genommen, mit viel Fanfaren und Prominenz. Zurecht, denn Jupiter ist der schnellste Rechner in Europa. Aber wie kriegt man so eine Maschine am Laufen? Und wie kann man sie instand halten. Das habe ich mit meinen Gästen Andreas Herten und Benedikt von St Vieth vom Forschungszentrum Jülich diskutiert. Das ist die letzte Folge der 10. Serie von Code for Thought. Und es geht am 3. Februar 2026 wieder mit der 11. Serie weiter (einschließlich deutschsprachiger Folgen). Alles Gute für die Feiertage und 2026! Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

12/23/25 • 39:47

English Edition: In this last English episode of this season, I'd like to introduce you to the three Software Sustainability Institute fellows for this year: Deborah Udoh, Jyoti Bhogal and Sangeeta Bathia. All three have ambitious goals for their fellowship ranging from training, building networks to public health. I'd like to thank the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK for supporting this episode and indeed the podcast in general. Note: there will be a short break after the next German language episode. The new season will start on 3 February 2026.RSE Asia https://rse-asia.github.io/RSE_Asia/on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/rse-asia-association/membership form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XSxDaTJzcNyGeDYXyJNVg1TDCo7un18PLFNiK6_jL2g/viewform?edit_requested=trueGitHub https://github.com/rse-asia/RSE_AsiaHave a great holiday and I wish you all a Happy New Year. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

12/16/25 • 36:03

English Version: our journey this week takes us to Southampton University - the Digital Humanities group, led by James Baker, my guest. And there is a lot more to the digital in Digital Humanities than software. James takes us through a tour through the exciting work that happens there:Links:https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-humanitieshttps://www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc//humanities/Digital_2025_DH_Annual%20reportWITHCAPTIONS_RND3.pdf annual report of the grouphttps://github.com/Southampton-Digital-Humanities their GitHub reposGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

12/9/25 • 44:24

English Edition: WHAM, BOOM, CLAC, WHOOSH - sound can represent many things, so why not experimental data? James Trayford and Chris Harrison want to show that you can, with their project called Audio Universe. And we're going to hear some of the sound samples during my conversation with them.Links:https://www.audiouniverse.org the project's home pagehttps://github.com/james-trayford/straus The Sonification software STRAUSShttps://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07875 The article on STRAUSS in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16847 the ArXiv articlehttps://strauss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ documentationSome sound/video samples:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkAoqgJvYg&t=572s Caribbean Audio Universe Tour of the Solar System, stars appearinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH1WNpDi10&t=1632s tour of the solar system, planet orbit sequencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rsZiIqcbc Spectral Data Cubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZkPPhaty0 light curves with different sound designshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78S0lkSc7so warming stripeshttps://soundcloud.com/audio-universe-685767042/sonification-predatorprey-cycles-goats-and-wolvesGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

12/2/25 • 38:07

édition française: On sait, que les centres de calcul consomment beaucoup d'énergie. Pour déterminer combien, on peut utiliser l'outils logiciels comme Kwollect et Alumet. Simon Delamare (Kwollect) et Guillaume Raffin (Alumet) nous expliquent comment Kwollect et Alumet fonctionnent. https://gitlab.inria.fr/grid5000/kwollecthttps://www.grid5000.fr/w/Monitoring_Using_Kwollecthttps://alumet.devhttps://github.com/alumet-dev/alumethttps://hal.science/hal-04420527https://calcul.math.cnrs.fr/2025-03-energie-infra-calcul-equilibre.htmlGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

11/25/25 • 31:25

Connecting instruments and managing data transfer between machines is bread and butter stuff for scientists. But you don't want to do the same thing each time you get a new machine or change to another one. Which is why my guest Sébastien Weber from Toulouse, France, created PyMoDAQ, an Open Source Python tool to help you with automating all of that. Links:https://pymodaq.cnrs.fr/en/latest/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdoHByMKfIdn-N51goippSSP_9iG4wds YouTube playlisthttps://jt-pymodaq25.sciencesconf.org/?lang=enhttps://github.com/PyMoDAQ/PyMoDAQ GitHub repohttps://github.com/CEMES-CNRS/pymodaq_plugin_managerPapers:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032116 Review of scientific instruments paperhttps://www.scientia.global/dr-sebastien-weber-pymodaq-navigating-the-future-of-data-acquisition/https://www.photoniques.com/articles/photon/pdf/2024/06/photon2024129p25.pdfSome of the technology stack:https://www.pyqtgraph.org Python QT interfacehttps://doc.qt.io/qt-5/https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro PyQTGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

11/18/25 • 32:25

Job interviews and coding tests are daunting. But most of us have to go through them at least once in our lives. Like Mike Mroczka, my guest, who is a software engineer. To share his experiences and help others he wrote a book how to get on top of coding interviews: "Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview".I met with Mike to discuss how interviewing and testing coding skills have changed, what the common pitfalls are that candidates should look out for and what it is we can do to prepare ourselves for the (coding) interview. Links:https://www.mikemroczka.com Mike's home pagehttps://www.beyondctci.com the book's homepagehttps://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com Cracking the Coding Interview bookhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/daisyaugerdominguez/2025/06/29/when-to-change-jobs/  article on people changing jobshttps://interviewing.iohttps://codesignal.comhttps://www.hackerrank.comhttps://leetcode.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw Google example interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1OLMjG52I Monty Python's Silly Job Interview sketch Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

11/11/25 • 42:31

For this week's episode I met with (some of) the core developers behind Quarto, an open source tool for scientific publishing: Carlos Scheidegger, Gordon Woodhull and Christophe Dervieux. Listen to our chat and find out more what Quarto is, how it works and what's in store for the future. Linkshttps://quarto.orghttps://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-clihttps://github.com/typst/typsthttps://posit.co Posit, the company behind Quartohttps://posit.co/blog/announcing-quarto-a-new-scientific-and-technical-publishing-system/ the announcement of Quarto 2022Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

11/4/25 • 37:37

Deutsche Ausgabe: mein Gast diese Woche ist Eric Upschulte vom FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich) der mit seiner Software CellDetection den Preis für die Software des Monats April 2025 ausgezeichnet wurde (neben anderen Preisen). Was genau CellDetection macht, und das man es auch für total andere Gebiete verwenden kann, erfahrt Ihr in dieser Folge.Links:https://github.com/FZJ-INM1-BDA/celldetection GitHub Repohttps://docs.celldetection.org/en/latest/ Dokumentationhttps://helmholtz.software/software/celldetection https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/rse/community-initiatives/jurse-code-of-the-month/april-2025 Die Preisauschreibung für den Monat Aprilhttps://neurips22-cellseg.grand-challenge.org CellDetection auf der NeurIPS. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

10/28/25 • 37:48

This year's RSE (research software engineering) workshop at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, focused on one theme: continuous benchmarking for high performance computing. Organisers Rene Caspart and Robert Speck tell us how it all went, while keynote speakers Michele Mesiti and Jayesh Badwaik give us concrete examples of how they go about continuous benchmarking - and why. Links:https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.htmlhttps://exacb.pages.jsc.fz-juelich.dehttps://hpsf.iohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21321https://ramble.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.htmlGeneral links:https://www.kit.edu/english/https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jschttps://www.nhr-verein.de/enhttps://isc-hpc.comhttps://supercomputing.orgGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

10/20/25 • 49:01

English Edition: Meet Phil Reed from the University of Manchester and SSI fellow. In my chat with Phil we touch on a number of themes, like how to boost digital skills for people outside the research software domain, like librarians. And look out for Phil's other endeavours (hint: towards the end of the episode).Links:https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/phil-reed Phil's SSI profileThis SSI website also has more details on the fellowship programme.https://esciencelab.org.uk/people/ the eScience Lab, Uni Manchesterhttps://philreeddata.github.io Phil's GitHubhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-715Xhttps://elixir-europe.org The Elixir programmehttps://carpentries.orghttps://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html Something on Bloom's taxonomyhttps://github.com/direct-framework/digital-research-competencies-frameworkhttps://disc.ac.ukGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

10/13/25 • 28:12

English Edition: My guest Bill Kurth and I will go on a space exploration of a special kind: the Voyager probes. Launched in 1977 just a few weeks apart they have now reached interstellar space. Some of the data they send back to Earth are audio - which can tell us a lot about the outer planets like Jupiter or indeed interstellar space, where both Voyagers are now. Linkshttps://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/ https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/voyager/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01363-7 a paper on persistent plasma waves in interstellar space https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2025/05/14/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/ reviving Voyager's thrusters https://space-audio.org some of the sounds we heard during the episode (Uni. of Iowa/US)https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/album/planets.html Symphonies of the Planets old homepagehttps://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/ The Deep Space NetworkGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

10/6/25 • 51:47

Edition française: Guillaume Levrier est chercheur associé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Francois Mitterand. Il est l'auteur d'une application Open Source appelée Pandorae. Une application pour simplifier, normaliser et explorer les documents ou données numériques. Bonne écoutehttps://github.com/Guillaume-Levrier/PANDORAE Pandorae sur GitHubhttps://politique.sciencehttps://hal.science/hal-04309075v1/documenthttps://heritrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.htmlhttps://fluxcd.iohttps://www.electronjs.orghttps://d3js.orghttps://www.istex.frhttps://www.zotero.orghttps://respadon.hypotheses.orghttps://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5223-closed-data-open-software-building-new-ways-into-the-french-web-archives/ https://www.bnf.fr/fr/consulter-les-archives-de-linternetGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

9/29/25 • 56:20

My guest this week, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts/US, will tell us about the first Open Source Software in Fusion Energy (OSSFE) conference from earlier 2025 - but also why it is important to use and develop open source software in the field and the difficulties he met during his career. Links:https://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/ The conference websitehttps://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/plot some conference statshttps://www.youtube.com/@OSSFE-conf OSSFE YouTube channelhttps://github.com/OSSFE the main website of OSSFEhttps://join.slack.com/t/ossfeworkspace/shared_invite/zt-31yacoitt-yl1aAPLxkm5NkCdv8VpfNg Slack channel for OSSFEhttps://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2026/ next year's conferencehttps://zenodo.org/communities/ossfe OSSFE on Zenodohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/remidelaportemathurin/ Rémi on LinkedInGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

9/22/25 • 35:05

Better Software - Better Research! This is the mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) since 2010. To support this, the SSI has been running a fellowship programme. In this episode you'll hear from 3 different fellows from the 2025 cohort about their motivation and plans for their fellowship. Maybe you want to join, too? You can apply for next year's fellowship - 2026 - until 6 October 2025.Links:https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme the fellowship programme's website. Please, go to this page if you think about applying!https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/ Mike's ConveRSE page on mental healthhttps://book.the-turing-way.org The Turing Way Handbookhttps://obsproject.com The tool to create videoshttps://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut DeepLabCut app https://github.com/talmolab/sleap The SLEAP appAnd here are the fellowshttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/esther-plomp Esther Plomphttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/mike-simpson Mike Simpsonhttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/niko-sirmpilatze Niko Sirmpilatze Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

9/15/25 • 36:34

Meet Christian Gutschow, particle physicist and research software engineer at UCL (University College London, UK). Christian is one of the scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN. And together we try to give you a glimpse of what is going on in this massive experiment that tries to unlock the secrets of matter. Software plays a crucial part in this - and at all levels. Links:https://atlas.cern/about an overview of the ATLAS experiment https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/33100-christian-gutschow Chris' profile at UCLhttps://opendata.atlas.cern/docs/documentation/monte_carlo/introduction_MC Monte Carlo simulations at ATLAShttps://home.cern/science/computing/grid the LHC computing gridhttps://www.hepdata.net the repository of High Energy Physics (HEP) experimental datahttps://atlaspo.cern.ch/public/ATLASOrganisation/index.htmlSome publications with Chris as author or contributor:https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7610 some rare Standard Model processeshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02793 dark matter signatureshttps://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00950 Monte-Carlo modelling (theoretical physics)https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13154 GPU acceleration/common file format for HPChttps://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05451 project RIVET to preserve data, see alsohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15984https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4809-efficient-histogramming-for-high-performance-computing-in-c-with-yoda/ efficient histogramming - a presentation at FOSDEM 25Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

9/8/25 • 40:52