Code for Thought
Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French
Episodes
221 episodes
[EN] Team Portrait: Advanced Research Computing at UCL
English Edition: Just in time for the RSE conference in Sheffield 2026 here a portrait of one of the larger groups of digital research professionals in the UK: the team of the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at University C...
[EN] Online ecosystems: beyond the metaphor - with Nathan Matias and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
English Edition: what do rivers have in common with online communities? This, and other questions, is something I will be talking about with my two guests Nathan Matias (CatLab, Cornell Uni. US) and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras.
[EN] Welcome to Season 12 - Trailer
English Edition: welcome back from your summer holidays. And what a summer this has been! In this short trailer you'll find out what's in store between now and the end of this year. I hope you find something interesting ...
[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 ...
[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 ...
[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...
[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 aplicacion...
[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...
[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...
[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, Herau...
[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.&n...
[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 t...
[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 s...
[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...
[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 ou...
[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 a...
[DE] Mit Licht durch die Wand: das ALPS II Experiment - mit A Lindner und S Karstensen
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...
[EN] ByteSized: fun with floating points - U Ruede, A Herten and E di Napoli
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 g...
[EN] Team Portrait: Research Software Engineering in Newcastle
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 ...
[EN] NextBrain: exploring the human brain - Eugenio Iglesias, James Hughes
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) ...
[EN] Revealing the structure of crystals and proteins with CrystFEL - Thomas White
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. Tho...
[EN] ByteSized: how to get your (digital) ducks in a row - with Richard Acton
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 sho...
[DE] Eine Begegnung mit Katrin Schöning-Stierand (HCDS Hamburg)
Deutsche Ausgabe:Linkshttps://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/ HCDS Hamburg
[EN] Computing, but not as you know it: analog computers (I) - B Ulmann, D Thuerck
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 the...
[EN] Making Software Count - Simon Hettrick, Jack Atkinson, Will Swansborough-Aston
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://hidd...