Code for Thought

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.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/

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.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/

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.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/

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.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/

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.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/

Mike Mroczka, a seasoned software engineer and author, dives deep into the evolving landscape of coding interviews shaped by his years at Google and Salesforce. He explains the need for new strategies as interviews shift to remote formats, highlighting pitfalls candidates often encounter. With insights on common mistakes, preparation tips, and the impact of AI on recruitment, Mike provides a comprehensive guide for navigating today's challenges in the tech hiring scene. Plus, he discusses the future of interviews and the balance between technical skills and cultural fit.

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.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/

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.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/

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.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/

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.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/