Code for Thought

Over the past year or two nuclear fusion made its way into the headlines not least in early 2022, when researchers at the JET (Joint European Torus) experiment reported a breakthrough in terms of generating energy.Finding new and sustainable energy sources is more important than ever. And what better way than to harness energy like our very own sun does.Enter Dr Adam Stephen, senior software engineer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s lab in Culham. Adam and his team and collaborators are working hard to overcome the engineering challenges and help make nuclear fusion a safe and sustainable way of producing energy. Amongst the work they do are building and designing real time systems and in my conversation we talk about some of the challenges they face.Links to follow up on the conversationhttps://ccfe.ukaea.uk UK Atomic Energy Authority Fusion sitehttps://ccfe.ukaea.uk/research/mast-upgrade/ UKAEA Mast: plasma exhaust systemhttps://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ real time Linuxhttps://vcis.f4e.europa.eu/marte2-docs/master/html/ MARTe2 documentationhttps://github.com/aneto0/MARTe2 MARTe2 GitHub repohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin Digital twin technologySelection of general announcements from 2022https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/nuclear-fusion-heat-record-a-huge-step-in-quest-for-new-energy-source Guardian UK on breakthrough in JET experiment Feb 2022https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/03/15/fact-sheet-developing-a-bold-vision-for-commercial-fusion-energy/ White House (US) summit on nuclear fusion announcementLicence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/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/

Jupyter is a well known tool in the education and research sector (and in the private sector, too). Jupiter can also be used in a collaborative environment, be that for teaching purposes or work within a research/product team. With Jupyter Hubs, you can run Jupyter in a variety of different environments and cloud services. Meet Dr Sarah Gibson, who works at the International Interactive Computing Collaboration - or 2i2c for short. She is also involved in the myBinder project as well as being a Fellow at the Software Sustainability Institute. At 2i2c, Sarah and her team help design, develop and manage Jupyter Hubs, so that researchers, developers and teachers can focus on their projects. Sarah takes us through the challenges of managing open source projects and the benefits of Jupyter Hubs.https://2i2c.org/author/sarah-gibson/ https://2i2c.org https://mybinder.org 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/

2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellows James Byrne and Tom Russell speak to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about their fellowship plans. Find out more about James' work at the  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Artificial Intelligence Group and see the BAS blog.Find out more about Tom's work on the Colouring Cities GitHub.Tweet your comments or questions @SoftwareSaved using #CodeForThought!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/

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the museum for art and design. It spans nearly 5000 years of human history and has well over 1 million objects. The Victoria and Albert museum was also one of the first to be accessible on the internet. Which is, why it gives me great pleasure to talk to Kati Price who leads the digital media and publishing team at the V&A. The V&A catalogue is accessed not only by the occasional visitors, hobbyists but also by scientists and researchers. Keeping the digital estate up to date and compelling for users is a challenge and Kati Price takes us through how she and her team approach this in their work. Think of "user centred".If you have a chance to check out the vast offerings of the V&A check out the links below.The V&A also has APIs and GitHub repos which people can access. Having said this, I would encourage you to go and visit the V&A in person if you can. https://www.vam.ac.uk The V&A main sitehttps://developers.vam.ac.uk/guide/v2/welcome.html Site for developershttps://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/ V&A Blogshttps://github.com/vanda V&A GitHub repohttps://iiif.io International Image Interoperability website. 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/

Meet Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) 2022 Fellow Connah Kendrick as he tells SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about his plans for his fellowship relating to digitising museum artefacts.  You can contact Connah by email Connah.kendrick@mmu.ac.uk and follow him on Twitter @connahkendrick. Tweet your comments or questions @SoftwareSaved using #CodeForThought!(Apologies for the audio quality issues at the beginning).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/

Meet James Baker, newly appointed director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton in the UK. Digital Humanities covers a wide area of different disciplines and James has his work cut out for him to help and bring it all together. By creating "collaborative spaces" we can bring experts together from different disciplines. An opportunity to innovate and create. But facilitating this is hard and in our conversation we touch on some of the challenges.http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk The Digital Humanities  at the University of Southampton, UKhttps://twitter.com/sotonDH Follow Digital Humanities tweetshttps://twitter.com/j_w_baker James Baker on TwitterGet 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/

The term research software engineering is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. It was coined during a Collaborations workshop on 21 March 2012. I was privileged to meet with 7 of the participants who took part in this workshop and together we talk how it all came about.My guests are:Neil Chue Hong MPhys FBCS, Director, Software Sustainability Institute and Senior Prof. Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, The Software Sustainability InstituteRobert Haines, Head of Research IT, Uni ManchesterDirk Gorissen, Product ManagerRob Baxter, Director of Data Services, EPCC, University of EdinburghIlian Todorov,  STFC UKRIJames Hetherington FBCS, Director, Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College LondonBut it's not just walking down memory lane. Even though, RSEs are now found in a number of research centres and universities across different countries, there is still lots to do. The challenges ahead range from creating attractive and sustainable career paths, securing funding, improving on diversity and others.https://software.ac.uk/cw22  Collaborations workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK for 2022 (April)https://software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institute UKhttps://society-rse.org The Society for Research Software Engineering in the UKAnd finally, after 2 years of pandemic, it is great to see the announcement for an in-person RSE conference again. And this year, it will be in Newcastle, UK.https://rsecon2022.society-rse.org 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/

Yo Yehudi, Executive Director at Open Life Science,  joins Selina Aragon, Software Sustainability Institute Communications Lead and host of the series, as the first guest of Software Horror Stories. Yo talks through one of the scariest moments of her life as an RSE, how she fixed it, and her tips to overcome your very own horror stories. Based on the Coding Confessions project, Software Horror Stories shares people’s unintended oversights when coding and how this impacted their research. The aim is to help normalise mistakes and emphasise how they’re a necessary evil of the learning journey in developing software for research. Look out for new episodes each month!Tweet your comments or questions @SoftwareSaved using #CodeForThought!Would you like to share your very own horror story? Get in touch at s.aragon@software.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/

Agile software development practices and methodologies have been around for a while and have indeed become mainstream. In particular Scrum and its many variants. In this episode I talk to Raj Heda, who helps organisations roll out agile methodologies. I was interested to find out, why "Agile" has become so successful, and what it is organisations need to look out for when they roll it out. I also wrote a brief blog post on Medium on the subject: https://medium.com/@pweschmidt/is-agile-still-agile-a13b20230bc There is plenty of material on agile methodologies out there. But here are a few pointers, some of which were also mentioned in the interviewAgile Manifesto https://agilemanifesto.org Scrum https://www.scrum.org Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) https://www.scaledagileframework.com Kanban https://businessmap.io/kanban-resources/getting-started/what-is-kanban What is Lean? https://theleanway.net/what-is-lean Toyota Just in Time manufacturing https://www.rcbi.org/updates/lean-manufacturing-made-toyota-the-success-story-it-is-today/ John Kotter: 8 steps to lead change https://www.kotterinc.com/8-step-process-for-leading-change/ Simon Sinek: empathy and perspective https://github.com/dwyl/leadership/issues/4 Business Agility Institute: https://businessagility.institute Digital AI (publisher of the State of Agile annual survey): https://digital.ai  (go to Resources in the nav bar and select State of Agile)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/

Code for Thought is one year old! (Did I hear anyone say - Hurrah?)Time to think what we can do for you in the coming weeks, months and beyond. In this short trailer, Selina and Jacalyn from the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) https://www.software.ac.ukand I talk about some of the new content that will be heading your way.In future we will be ca 10min episodes as well as longer ones, the latter ca every 3 weeks:meet the new/existing SSI fellowshear some truly gruesome horror stories (albeit about software)get some newsand also get more in depth and longer interviews and coveragesIf you have a story you would like to share, or you want to contribute and host an episode, do not hesitate to get in touch with one of usSelina s.aragon@epcc.ed.ac.uk Jacalyn J.Laird@epcc.ed.ac.ukPeter peter.schmidt@ucl.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/