Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt

Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt

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Code for Thought is a community podcast for researchers who code or who want to learn how to code. Launched in Jan 2021, it is now available in English, German and - since September 2024 - in French. https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

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Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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What an amazing photo!

DLR-next@dlr-next.bsky.social

Weil dieser Tage viel von der Mission zum Mars-Mond Phobos die Rede war, hier ein älteres, aber ziemlich spektakuläres Bild, das von Bord der ESA-Sonde Mars Express mithilfe der deutschen HRSC-Kamera gelang - quasi im Vorbeiflug. Credit: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin

Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Get your woolies out, #code4thought [EN] is going to the archipelago of Svalbard/Norway to meet with the team of @arcticworldarchive.bsky.social . Where data are kept for 100s (or 1000s?) of years. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Data on ice: the Arctic World Archive - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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This is one of my favourite films. I saw it first in the German version ("Die Macht und Ihr Preis") back in the early 1980s. Since then I have come back to it (there is even a DVD). It's a great adaptation of Leonardo Sciascia's book Equal Danger (but the film takes a slightly different turn).

FID Romanistik@fidromanistik.bsky.social

Francesco Rosis Thriller “Cadavres exquis” von 1975 ab 19.10. auf @artede.bsky.social: Inspektor Rogas (Lino Ventura) untersucht eine spektakuläre Mordserie. Alle Opfer sind Justizbeamte. Bei seinen Ermittlungen kommt Rogas ein Verdacht: Der Täter könnte für ein polit. Komplott missbraucht werden.

arte.tvDie Macht und ihr Preis - Film in voller Länge | ARTEInspektor Rogas findet bei seinen Vorgesetzten wenig Unterstützung, als er eine spektakuläre Mordserie untersucht. Alle Opfer sind Justizbeamte. Bei seinen Ermittlungen kommt Rogas ein Verdacht: Der T...

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step-up.bsky.social
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Our lovely friends at the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) have done a fab job of documenting the UK’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) landscape. The Professional Skills & Career Pathways projects focus on the UK’s digital research workforce. www.cake.ac.uk/landscape/

cake.ac.ukComputational Abilities Knowledge ExchangeThe CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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First ByteSized episode on #code4thought [EN] this season: how AI assisted coding is changing the way we work with software (online course 12 Oct). With Robert Chatley , Reece Walsh and Faruk Diblen. Out on your podcast apps, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] ByteSized: AI, agents and coding - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 (N...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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This week on #code4thought [EN] I meet with some of the team behind @probabl.ai - the open source company that is looking after scikit-learn, skolar and skore. How did they go from research to startup? And why? Out now on your podcast apps, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] From research to startup: scikit-learn and :probabl. - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 mil...

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Jon Peirce
@peircej.bsky.social

Was really fun to chat with #code4thought (thanks Peter Schmidt) about our adventure into how we can make financially sustainable open-source software for scientists. Hopefully it's an interesting listen for others too! 😁

Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt@code4thought.bsky.social

This week on #code4thought [EN] we dive into the world of behavioural science with my guest @peircej.bsky.social , author of the open source library PsychoPy. Find out how it became the go to tool in the field. Out now on your podcast, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] PsychoPy, a library for behavioural sciences - Jon Peirce - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 ...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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This week on #code4thought [EN] we dive into the world of behavioural science with my guest @peircej.bsky.social , author of the open source library PsychoPy. Find out how it became the go to tool in the field. Out now on your podcast, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] PsychoPy, a library for behavioural sciences - Jon Peirce - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 ...

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Gaël Varoquaux
@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social

Some biggies in this release: ■ The CatEncoder can be super useful ■ Caching makes exploratory work so much more productive And many places got faster (always nice to have) or easier to use. Enjoy more powerful and easier learning with dataframes :)

Skrub@skrub-data.bsky.social

✨ Skrub 0.11 has been released ✨ Full changelog: skrub-data.org/stable/CHANG... Heads-up: skrub 0.11 requires Python ≥ 3.11 and scikit-learn ≥ 1.5.2. Highlights in thread ⤵️

Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Deutsche Folge von #code4thought [DE] diese Woche: ein Gespräch mit Claudia Göbel und Alexander Struck über den ersten RSE Tag in Berlin im Juni diesen Jahres. Ganz im Zeichen von Open Science. Jetzt auf Euren Podcast apps, YouTube und direkt codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[DE] RSE Tag(e) in Berlin - Claudia Göbel, Alexander Struck - Code for ThoughtDeutsche Ausgabe: In der Woche vom 1. Juni fand in Berlin eine Woche zum Thema Forschungssoftware statt - mit Trainingsprogrammen und Meetups. Dazu gehörte auch der erste RSE (Research Software E...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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German [DE] episode of #code4thought: the first RSE Day happened in Berlin this year (June 2026) and I talked to the organisers Claudia Göbel and Alexander Struck how it all went. No on your podcast app, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[DE] RSE Tag(e) in Berlin - Claudia Göbel, Alexander Struck - Code for ThoughtDeutsche Ausgabe: In der Woche vom 1. Juni fand in Berlin eine Woche zum Thema Forschungssoftware statt - mit Trainingsprogrammen und Meetups. Dazu gehörte auch der erste RSE (Research Software E...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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If you want to become a fellow of the Institute for Research Software, hurry: the deadline for applications is 5 Oct 2026! www.software.ac.uk/programmes/f...

software.ac.ukApply to the Fellowship Programme | Institute for Research SoftwareOn this page, you will find important information for applying to the Fellowship Programme. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us via fellows-management@software.ac.uk a...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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For this week's episode on #code4thought [EN], we are lifting the curtain and take a peek at the Fellowship programme of the Institute for Research Software (formerly SSI). My guests are Oscar Seip and Shoaib Sufi. Out on all podcast apps,YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] From Agents to Fellows - with Oscar Seip and Shoaib Sufi - Code for ThoughtEnglish Edition: The Institut for Research Software (formerly the Software Sustainability Institute) in the UK can look back on a long tradition of promoting 'better software, better research'. A key ...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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This week on #code4thought [EN] we'll meet the team of the advanced computing centre (ARC) at University College London (UCL) and find out what they've been up to. Out on all podcast apps,YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Team Portrait: Advanced Research Computing at UCL - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 C...

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Jülich Supercomputing Centre (FZJ-JSC)
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JION, a trapped-ion #quantum computer developed by Siegen-based company eleQtron, was officially inaugurated @fz-juelich.de 🎉 This marks another major milestone for quantum computing in NRW. 🚀 ➡️ Press release: www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/arch...

fz-juelich.deOfficial Launch of JION Quantum Computer at JülichForschungszentrum Jülich and Siegen-based start-up eleQtron have officially inaugurated the quantum computer JION. Developed in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), JION will be made available to research…
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Needed to update the link for the episode as I spotted a tiny typo in Bastian's @gedankenstuecke.bsky.social Name: the episode web site is codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis... podcast apps should not be affected

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Online ecosystems: beyond the metaphor - with Nathan Matias and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 B...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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What do ecosystems in, say, rivers have in common with social media/online communities? That's what I discuss with my 2 guests, Nathan Matias and @gedankenstuecke.bsky.social in this episode of #code4thought. Out on all podcast apps/YouTube & codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Online ecosystems: beyond the metaphor - with Nathan Matias and Bastian Gershake Tzovaras - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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) ...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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A new season of #code4thought - the #podcast for researchers who code & digital research professionals - starts today. Listen to the short trailer to find out what's in store between now and the end of 2026. codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Welcome to Season 12 - Trailer - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 so...

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Sciences Po médialab
@medialab-scpo.bsky.social

📢 Appel à contributions | Faire de la recherche autrement : exister, résister, coopérer Le réseau RésIn invite les professionnel·les d’appui à la recherche à contribuer à son Université d’automne 2026, consacrée aux transformations de leurs métiers et pratiques. 📅 Appel ouvert jusqu’au 27 août ⬇️

medialab.sciencespo.frAAC - Faire de la recherche autrement : exister, résister, coopérer | médialab Sciences PoLe réseau d’ingénieur·es dans la recherche (RésIn) propose de réunir ingénieur·es et professionnel·les d’appui à la recherche les mardi 27, mercredi 28 et jeudi 29 octobre 2026 à l’occasion de son uni...

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WissPod-Podcast
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Neu in der #Podcast-Liste bei #Wisspod: Podcast "Schallwelten" https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/podcasts/schallwelten/ In diesem Podcast wird besprochen, wie Musik, Film und Politik sich gegenseitig beeinflussen, gesellschaftliche Debatten prägen und Emotionen lenken.

wissenschaftspodcasts.dePodcast "Schallwelten" - wissenschaftspodcasts.deSchallwelten – Der Podcast über Musik, Film und Politik In Schallwelten tauchen Alfred und Johannes Huber tief in das Spannungsdreieck aus Musik, Film und Politik ein. Vater und Sohn analysieren, wie diese drei Sphären sich gegenseitig beeinflussen, gesellschaftliche Debatten prägen und ...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Hmm that sounds interesting: just ordered a copy.

Zoltan Varju@zoltanv.bsky.social

A logician friend showed me the Natural Number Game after a Haskell meetup. No royal road to Lean. Kevin Hartnett's The Proof in the Code tells how a Microsoft code-checker became a truth machine at the heart of AI math. Can't put it down. www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

quantabooks.orgThe Proof in the Code - Quanta BooksThe inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?

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Gaël Varoquaux
@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social

A fun podcast with Maxime Gabella about our dreams about AI. The next frontier of AI is building agents that use statistical learning to tackle problem-specific challenges from data. Agents come with promises, but they need a statistical harness, as @probabl.ai's www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNpv...

youtube.comCan AI Become a Real Data Scientist? | Gaël Varoquaux on scikit-learn, Probabl & Scientific JudgmentYouTube video by Maxime Gabella
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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That sounds very exciting and I look forward to listening to it. All the best for the adventure @felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Felienne Hermans@felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

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Declan Valters
@decvalts.bsky.social

The end of an era! The last broadcast of BBC Radio 4 on Longwave (198kHz). The transmitter will be switched off at the end of June after nearly a century of transmission from Droitwich.

Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
@code4thought.bsky.social

Kurz vor der Sommerpause, hier noch eine deutsche Folge von #code4thought [DE]: und diesmal blicken wir mit Falk Schlegelmilch und Florian Mannseicher in die Zukunft, will heißen dem Projekt FutuRSI. Jetzt auf Euren Podcast apps, YouTube und codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[DE] Forschungssoftware für die Zukunft - FutuRSI - mit F Mannseicher, F Schlegelmilch - Code for ThoughtDeutsche 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 P...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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New ByteSized [EN] episode of #code4thought (last one be4 the summer break): E Sheppard & M Hardaker from King’s College London tell us why data & software safety matter. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube & codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] ByteSized: Security by Design - Secure Data Principles for Digital Research with E Sheppard, M Hardaker - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Neue Folge von "Register Geknister", dem Linguistik podcast des SFB1412 der Humboldt-Uni Berlin: diesmal wie Luther die deutsche Sprache und z.T. auch das Litauische (über Jonas Berthe - Bretkūnas) mit beeinflusst hat. registergeknister.buzzsprout.com/2227743/epis...

registergeknister.buzzsprout.comZwei Sprachen, ein Vorbild: Wie Luther Deusch und Litauisch beeinflusste - RegistergeknisterIn dieser Folge von Registergeknister sind Jürg Fleischer und Mortimer Drach vom Projekt B04 zu Gast und sprechen über Register in der historischen Linguistik. Im Zentrum stehen Martin Luther und der ...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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This week on #code4thought [EN] I have the pleasure of talking to one of the authors of the agilemanifesto.org , Dave Thomas pragdave.me (the Pragmatic Programmer) about the state of agile development. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube or codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

agilemanifesto.orgManifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. These are our values and principles.

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Society of RSE
@society-rse.org

Nominations for the Society Trustee elections are now open! We're calling on members of the RSE Community to help us shape the future of the Society and the RSE movement. If you are interested, please read the information below and consider nominating yourself. society-rse.org/trustee-nomi...

society-rse.orgTrustee Nominations and Elections 2026 - Society of Research Software EngineeringWe would like to announce that the seventh round of Society Trustee elections will take place in September 2026. Every year, a number of the current trustees stand down, and a new batch of trustees…
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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WissPod-Podcast@wisspod.podcasts.social.ap.brid.gy

Neu in der #Podcast-Liste bei #Wisspod: Podcast "BauertothePeople (B2P) - Der Podcast hinter den Kulissen von deinem Essen" https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/podcasts/bauertothepeople/ Wissen, Perspektiven & Hintergründe rund um unsere Lebensmittel & die Menschen dahinter.

wissenschaftspodcasts.dePodcast "BauertothePeople (B2P) - Der Podcast hinter den Kulissen von deinem Essen" - wissenschaftspodcasts.deWissen, Perspektiven & Hintergründe rund um unsere Lebensmittel & die Menschen dahinter. Ehrliche und offene Gespräche direkt auf den Höfen, in den Unternehmen und bei den Menschen zu Hause. Wissen aus erster Hand, ungecoacht und authentisch, von denen, die es wissen müssen. Und ja, ein bisserl ...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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For this week’s episode of #code4thought [EN] we’re looking at how bits rot - on old floppy disks, CDs, DVDs etc. My guests are L Talboom , C McKean and A Page-Mitchell (www.computinghistory.org.uk). Out on your podcast app, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] When Bits Rot - with C McKean, L Talboom, A Page-Mitchell - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 Adri...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Does spec-driven development make agile software practices obsolete? That’s what my guest Graham Lee and I talk about in this week’s episode of #code4thought [EN]. Out on your podcast apps, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Does Spec-Driven Development replace agile? With Graham Lee - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 a...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Wissenschaft allen etwas näher bringen. Das will die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, die bald in Berlin stattfindet. Für diese Folge von #code4thought [DE] habe ich mich mit der Leiterin Christina Quensel getroffen. Jetzt auf Podcast Apps, YouTube & codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[DE] Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - mit Christina Quensel - Code for ThoughtDeutsche 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...

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Compute! Paris
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Wolf Vollprecht, founder of Prefix.dev, creator of mamba & pixi, and conda-forge core maintainer, is keynoting Compute! Paris 2026! Hear his vision for the future of open-source tooling, performance, and data science infrastructure.

Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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In this ByteSized dRTP on #code4thought [EN] session we turn to GitHub Pages - a way of creating web-sites from your repository. With Sarah Gibson and Jeremy Cohen. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] ByteSized: create your web-site with GitHub Pages - J Cohen, S Gibson - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 Sara...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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There is a (relatively) new kid on the block re package manager. It’s called #Pixi, and I’ll be talking on #code4thought [EN] Wolf Vollprecht (creator of Pixi), and SSI fellow Raniere de Silva. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube or codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Managing Packages with Pixi - Raniere de Silva and Wolf Vollprecht - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 (Pref...
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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Happy Birthday @joss-openjournals.bsky.social and many happy returns.

Journal of Open Source Software@joss-openjournals.bsky.social

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

joss.theoj.orgJournal of Open Source SoftwareJournal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.
Code for Thought / Peter Schmidt
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What is a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and what are they good for? That’s what my guest Michael McLeod (UCL) and I explore this week on #code4thought [EN]. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com[EN] Computing, but not as you know it: FPGA (II) - with Michael McLeod - Code for ThoughtEnglish 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 ...