Code for Thought

Peter Schmidt
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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it.  Languages: English, German, French

  1. 4 days ago

    [EN] XWiki and CryptPad: with Ludovic Dubos, David Benqué

    English Edition: Open source is not only used in research/science. In this episode I want to shine a light on 2 open source applications: XWiki and CryptPad. You'll hear from Ludovic Dubos (CEO XWiki) and David Benqué (project lead, CryptPad). It's a great story about how you can make open source projects work - and last.  Links: https://www.xwiki.org XWiki homepage https://try.xwiki.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8FN38yHaJA Ludovic Dubos at FOSDEM 2025https://cryptpad.org/ CryptPadhttps://blog.cryptpad.org/https://cryptpad.fr/ The flagship instance of CryptPadGet in touch Thank 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. 5 Nov

    [EN] ByteSized: Green(er) Continuous Integration/Deployment - Joe Wallwork

    English Edition: In this edition of the ByteSized dRTP (STEP-UP) season Joe Wallwork from the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (https://iccs.cam.ac.uk/) is telling us why green computing matters. And in particular, how to make continuous integration/deployment more sustainable.  Links: https://github.com/Cambridge-ICCS/green-ci  The Green CI/CD GitHub toolhttps://cambridge-iccs.github.io/green-ci/  the documentation about ithttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/byte-sized-green-computing/ The whole set of courses on green computing by the EBML-EBI and Green Special Interest Group (see link below)https://socrse.github.io/green-sig/Some literature: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18718 Carbon-Awareness in CI/CDhttps://lorojournals.com/index.php/emsj/en/article/view/1581 Carbon-Aware Continuous Integration: Reducing Emissions Without Sacrificing Performancehttps://zenodo.org/records/12754189 Environmentally-aware use of GitHub Actionshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26413 Environmental Impact of CI/CD PipelinesTools: https://codecarbon.io Code Carbonhttps://www.green-algorithms.org Green Algorithmshttps://github.com/GreenScheduler/cats CATS schedulerhttps://www.nextflow.io Nextflowhttps://app.electricitymaps.com/map/fifteen_minutes Electricity Map appGet in touch Thank 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 Nov

    [EN] Hmm... a special CAKE for you

    English edition: We all love a good pastry, but this CAKE is different. It's the Computational Abilities and Knowledge Exchange (CAKE).  Eleanor Broadway, Marion Weinzierl and Nick Brown tell us what it's all about. And Tobias Weinzierl and Eva Fernandez-Amez explain what the HPC Days in Durham/UK have to do with CAKE.  Links: https://www.cake.ac.uk/ CAKE home pagehttps://www.cake.ac.uk/funds/ funding projectshttps://www.cake.ac.uk/landscape/https://www.cake.ac.uk/events/202606-DurhamHPCDays/ Durham HPC Dayshttps://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/ Homepage for the HPC Days (for 2026)https://www.youtube.com/@Durham_HPC YouTube channelhttps://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/past/ past HPC daysGet in touch Thank 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 Oct

    [DE] In Guter Gesellschaft: Forschungssoftware in wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften (GI und GAMM)

    Deutsche Ausgabe: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften wie die Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) oder die Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) spielen eine zentrale Rolle in Forschung und Lehre. In dieser Folge erzählen uns Robert Speck (FZJ) und Anna-Lena Lamprecht (Uni. Potsdam) wie sie neue Arbeitsgruppen zur Forschungssoftware in diesen Gesellschaften aufgebaut haben. Und warum. Links: https://gamm-ag-rse-rdm.github.io/ RSE Arbeitsgruppe in der GAMM https://www.gamm.org/  Die Homepage der GAMMhttps://fg-rse.gi.de RSE Arbeitsgruppe in der GIhttps://gi.de/ Die Homepage der GIhttps://de-rse.org/de/index.html deRSE Verein Get in touch Thank 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. 19 Oct

    [EN] Data on ice: the Arctic World Archive

    English Edition: How can we preserve data not for years, but for centuries, perhaps even millennia? Meet the Arctic World Archive (AWA), located on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen part of the Svalbard archipelago. I met with the 2 co-founders, Rune Bjerkestrand and Katrina Leon to find out what's behind AWA and how data can be preserved for the longterm. Links https://arcticworldarchive.orghttps://piql.com the PIQL way of storing data on filmhttps://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/ GitHub is on AWAhttps://www.seedvault.no/ The Global Seed Vault on the same island https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Storing data in glass - Microsoft's Project Silicahttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-whttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism  the Antikythera mechanism - an object found in 1901 and seemingly an ancient (analog) computerGet in touch Thank 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/

  6. 14 Oct

    [EN] ByteSized: AI, agents and coding

    English edition: As part of our ByteSized series, we are going through some of the (many) aspects of AI assisted coding with my guests Robert Chatley (Imperial College London, UK), Reece Walsh (Newcastle Uni., UK) and Faruk Diblen (eScience Centre, Amsterdam, NL).  Links: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/agentic-coding/ A good run-through of agentic coding by MIT/USAhttps://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgenticProgramming.html Martin Fowler on agentic codinghttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/agent-pull-requests-are-everywhere-heres-how-to-review-them/ here's GitHub's suggestions on how to deal with AI generated pull requestshttps://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills Faruk Diblen's set of SKILLS for research software engineeringhttps://ai-declaration.org and here is Faruk's AI declaration website and toolhttps://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropichttps://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/report/AI-Assisted_Software_Development_Policy_for_UCL_Advanced_Research_Computing/34070631?file=69660984 an example policy of how to deal with AI assisted coding tools - from UCL (University College London, UK)ByteSized dRTP is part of the STEP-UP project and I would like to thank them for supporting this show. Get in touch Thank 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/

  7. 12 Oct

    [EN] From research to startup: scikit-learn and :probabl.

    English Edition: scikit-learn is THE open source programming library for all things machine-learning. And since 2024, it is the core part of a company called :probabl.  What this means for the millions of users of scikit-learn and the many contributors is something we find out in this episode, where I talk to Marie Sacksick (skore), Arturo Amor (skolar) and Yann Lechelle (president and co-founder of :probabl.).  Links: https://www.probabl.ai Home page for :probabl. https://probabl.ai/skore  Skore https://github.com/probabl-ai/skore GitHub repo for skorehttps://scikit-learn.org/stable/about.html scikit-learn Python libraryhttps://blog.probabl.ai/intel-and-probabl-announce-collaboration-to-accelerate-scikit-learn-on-intel-hardware Collaboration between Intel and :probabl. https://scikit-learn-central.probabl.ai/#/catalog The central cataloguehttps://github.com/probabl-ai/scikit-learn-central GitHub repohttps://skolar.probabl.ai/ skolar, the certification programmehttps://inria.github.io/scikit-learn-mooc/ the INRIA MOOC for scikit-learnhttps://skrub-data.org/stable/ skrub (another project at :probabl.)https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub    Get in touch Thank 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/

  8. 5 Oct

    [EN] PsychoPy, a library for behavioural sciences - Jon Peirce

    English Edition: PsychoPy is an open source library widely used in behavioural sciences. I met with Jonathan Peirce, author and psychology researcher himself, about what the library does and how he, and his team, manage to keep it running while still doing research.  Links https://psychopy.org the homepage for the libraryhttps://github.com/psychopy/psychopy GitHub repohttps://opensciencetools.org the company behind PsychoPy https://pavlovia.org Pavlovia - run your experiments online Get in touch Thank 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/

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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it.  Languages: English, German, French

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  • Creator
    Peter Schmidt
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    232
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