Code for Thought

Peter Schmidt
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May 5, 2025 • 42min

[EN] Let's Go Atomic (with Design) - Brad Frost

Brad Frost is the author of a book called Atomic Design, in which he tries to help UI/UX designers improve their workflow and approach and create digital apps.We also talk about the changing roles of designers and design in a world where we get new gadgets all the time. As Brad says in his book: let's go atomicLinks:https://bradfrost.com Brad's home pagehttps://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com here the bookhttps://www.webcomponents.orghttps://www.w3.org/History.html bit of history re the WWWhttps://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.htmlGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Apr 28, 2025 • 52min

[DE] Rechnen mit Quantencomputern - mit Elisabeth Lobe und Peter Schuhmacher

Dr Elisabeth Lobe und Dr Peter Schuhmacher vom DLR geben uns einen (nicht ganz so) kleinen Einblick in die Welt von Quantencomputern und an welchen Themen sie daran arbeiten. Ein spannendes Gebiet auf dem viel passiert!Hier eine Reihe von Linkshttps://qci.dlr.de/en/alqu/ Die Quanteninitiative und die daran beteiligten Projektehttps://qci.dlr.de/en/quantum-computing-basic-knowledge-in-five-video-lectures/ ein paar Einführungsvideoshttps://gitlab.com/quantum-computing-software/quark ein bisschen Softwarehttps://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit Qiskit von IBMhttps://openqasm.com OpenQasmhttps://www.qir-alliance.org Quantum Intermediate RepresentationMore general stuff:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithmhttps://ionq.com/resources/what-is-hybrid-quantum-computinghttps://www.classiq.io/insights/quantum-algorithms-shors-algorithmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch–Jozsa_algorithmhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-a-qubithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiVincenzo%27s_criteria Di Vincenzo Kriterien für Quanten Rechnerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gatehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_theoremhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_error_correctionhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuantengatterGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Apr 21, 2025 • 47min

[EN] From Volcanos to Open Source - John Stevenson

In this episode, John Stevenson, a senior software developer at the British Geological Survey, shares his unique journey from volcanology to engineering. He discusses the emotional challenges of leaving academia and his passion for open-source software in geology. John recounts thrilling field studies in Iceland, revealing fascinating magma properties. He also addresses the importance of open-source solutions for reliable data collection, and tackles security concerns related to software in the scientific community.
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Apr 14, 2025 • 32min

[EN] From Research to Production? With Duncan McGregor

How can you transition from photo-type or exploratory research software to production code? Can you? I've been discussing this with my guest Duncan McGregor. In the first part of our discussion we touch on how you can effectively analyse large data sets that are distributed over different locations with tools like Dask. Links:https://www.youtube.com/@PairingWithDuncan Duncan's YouTube channelhttps://www.oneeyedmen.com Duncan's websitehttps://github.com/dmcg and his GitHubhttps://www.dask.org Daskhttps://github.com/aws-solutions-library-samples/distributed-compute-on-aws-with-cross-regional-dask cross regional programming with Daskhttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-efficient-cross-regional-i-o-intensive-workloads-with-dask-on-aws/https://blog.dask.org/2022/07/19/dask-multi-cloudhttps://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Zarr formathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF NetCDFhttps://www.ecmwf.int European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecastshttps://github.com/ecmwfhttps://www.eumetsat.inthttps://pangeo.iohttps://testbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Unit testing with Jupyterhttps://github.com/nteract/testbookConferences/Events:https://dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk King's College London: summer school for digital humanities. 30 June - 4 July, Londonhttps://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2025-cw25 The annual Collaborations Workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute UK, 13-15 May, University of Sterling, ScoGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Mar 31, 2025 • 34min

[EN] ByteSized RSE: AI assisted coding - with Liam (Jianliang) Gao

English Edition: In this last episode for the ByteSized RSE "miniseries" we talk about AI assisted coding - and the (long) history how engineers tried to come up with assisting tools to make our code better and more robust. My guest is Liam Gao from Imperial College, London, UK. Links:https://github.com/features/copilot  GitHub Co-Pilothttps://huggingface.co HuggingFace another AI toolhttps://spacelift.io/blog/ai-coding-assistant-tools a summary of current tools (non exhaustive)https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering OpenAI's take on prompt engineeringhttps://www.promptingguide.aihttps://web.archive.org/web/20121022091418/http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/spelling.pdf some of the attempts to come up with spelling checkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_completionhttps://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Good old Emacshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor) vi editor (not for the faint hearted)https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-pascal/7x Borland's Turbo Pascal with IDEhttps://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ Stackoverflow survey from 2024 with ca 65000 respondents And here the YouTube clips mentionedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow Cypher musing why he didn't take the "blue pill"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0mRMp2kbQY Star Trek TNG, S3E6 - Geordie LaForge talking to the computerGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Mar 25, 2025 • 38min

[DE] Hermes - oder wie veröffentliche ich meine Software. Mit S Druskat und M Meinel

Deutsche Ausgabe: Das Hermes Projekt versucht das Publizieren von Software zu vereinfachen und auch zu automatisieren. Stephan Druskat und Michael Meinel, beide vom DLR  und dem deRSE e.V. erklären uns was es damit auf sich hat.Links:https://hermes.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes homepagehttps://docs.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes workflowhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09015 das Paper zu Hermeshttps://invenio-software.org/products/rdm/ https://dataverse.org dataverse von Harvardhttps://zenodo.org Zenodohttps://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content Zenodo und GitHubhttps://citation-file-format.github.io Citation File FormatGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Mar 18, 2025 • 34min

[EN] ByteSized RSE: What's the carbon footprint of my app?

English Edition: This episode is all about 'green computing' and how we can check the impact of our computing efforts. Helping me with that are Kirsty Pringle (SSI), Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge, UK) and Andy Turner from the EPCC in Edinburgh (UK).Tools discussed in this episode:https://www.green-algorithms.org Green Algorithms home page with the online calculatorhttps://codecarbon.io Code Carbon - a Python libraryOther:https://www.software.ac.uk/GreenDiSC Green Disc certificationGreen Computing Special Interest group (SIG) contacthttps://socrse.github.io/green-sig/ home page of the SIG with contact detailsUK RSE Slack channel: #green-sighttps://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0677/ Parliamentary report on ICT energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions https://app.electricitymaps.com/map map of energy sources for electricity (fossil fuel, nuclear, renewables etc)https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-are-scope-1-2-3-carbon-emissions Emmisions scopes explainedERRATA: I mentioned in the episode that Kirsty is working at the EPCC - but she works at the SSI (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Sorry about the confusion.The sound effects are from Hindenburg audio editing software. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Mar 11, 2025 • 44min

[FR] RésIn: un nouveau réseau pour les ingénieurs - avec A Baneyx et D Antolinos-Basso

Edition française: le projet RésIn - réseau d'ingénieurs RésIn est une collaboration  entre Science Po et l'Université Paris Cité pour valoriser le travail des ingénieurs pluridisciplinaires.Audrey Banyex et Diégo Antolinos-Basso (maintenant à l'Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse) nous expliquent pourquoi créer ce réseau et à quoi il sert.Liens:https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/activites/resin/ le descriptif du projet RésInhttps://resin.medialab.sciences-po.fr/ l'annuaire professionnelhttps://vimeo.com/showcase/11270732 le viméo qui héberge les captations et interviews faites dans le cadre du projethttps://medialab.sciencespo.fr/activites/metat-atelier-de-methodes/ L'atelier de méthodes (MetAt)https://metsem.hypotheses.org/ Le séminaire de méthodologie (MetSem)Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/
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Mar 4, 2025 • 28min

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Project Management with GitHub

Discover how GitHub and GitLab can revolutionize project management. Guests share insights on integrating project management with GitHub's evolving tools. Learn about automation opportunities that enhance collaboration and organization among teams. Explore the evolution of project management methodologies, including agile techniques and task segmentation for efficiency. The discussion also uncovers the complexities of managing open source projects and the importance of adapting to diverse stakeholder needs.
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Feb 25, 2025 • 42min

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

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, Fredo Erxleben und Anna-Lisa Döring. Links:https://events.hifis.net/event/1472/timetable/#20241121.detailed Das Programm der Veranstaltung mit Beiträgen zum Herunterladenhttps://www.helmholtz-hida.de HIDA, der Dachverband bei dem die Tagung stattfandhttps://www.hifis.net HIFIS auch eine Helmholtz Platformhttps://www.helmholtz.de/hida-files/user_upload/pdf_dokumente/Helmholz-Incubator-Folder_2022.pdf Übersicht der Helmholtz Platformenhttps://www.uni-regensburg.de/humanwissenschaften/erziehungswissenschaft-medien/team/prof-dr-silke-schworm/index.html Prof Silke Schwormhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKralSEhZq0Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/

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