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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:[email protected] 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/

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:[email protected] 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/

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:[email protected] 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/

Deutsche 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 Engineering) Tag in Berlin. Hier hört Ihr von den Organisatoren Claudia Göbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9785-4154 ) und Alexander Struck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-9228) wie das so gelaufen ist. Links Webseiten der Events: https://forschungssoftware.info/RSdays/2026/Berlin/https://forschungssoftware.info/RSweeks/2026/https://zenodo.org/communities/rsday2026/  Materialsammlung zum Research Software Day 2026 Berlin & Brandenburghttps://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/researchsoftwaredaybbb Mailingliste zur Organisation zukünftiger Research Software Days in B & BB  https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/research-quality/core/index.html  Center for Open and Responsible Research der BUA (Berlin University Alliance)https://www.matters-of-activity.de/ Exzellenzcluster Matters of Activity. Image Space Materialhttps://de-rse.org de-RSE e.V. – Gesellschaft für Forschungssoftware Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English Edition: Andre Piza is one of the authors of the paper: "Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: A Roadmap". And in this episode Andre tells us what this roadmap contains and how this benefits digital skills in the arts and humanities domain.  Links: https://zenodo.org/records/15083396 the original paperhttps://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FU000019%2F1#/tabOverview funding of the project by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UKhttps://www.diskah.org  DISKAH initiativehttps://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/convergent-screen-technologies-and-performance-in-realtime-costar/costar-national-lab/  CoStar initiativehttps://www.riches.ukri.org Riches initiative Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 element of this is the fellowship. Together with my guests Oscar Seip and Shoaib Sufi (both from the University of Manchester) we explore the history of the fellowship and how it evolved over time.  NOTE: applications for the next round of fellowship is OPEN until 5 October 2026. Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme this is the entry for the fellowship programme. Look here for finding out how to apply etchttps://www.software.ac.uk/ssi-fellows-mentorship the mentorship at the Institute for Research Softwarehttps://we-are-ols.org Open Life Science initiative supporting the mentorship programme at the Institute for Research SoftwareGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 Computing Centre (ARC) at University College London (UCL). Because of its size, I met with a number of staff from different parts of the departments: Jonathan Cooper, Harry Moss, Mahmoud Abdelrazek, Milan Malfait, Stella Prins, Camilla Harris and Hollie Rowland. Links: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computinghttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/our-people https://www.pris-managers.ac.uk the PRISM network in the UKGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 Bastian Greshake Tzovaras.  It all started with a blog post, which you find below in the list of links: https://citizensandtech.org/2025/12/online-communities-as-ecosystems/ the original blog posthttps://citizensandtech.org/https://citizensandtech.org/author/j-nathan-matias/  Nathan's biohttps://tzovar.as/ Bastian's homepagehttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ an online community mentioned in the interviewhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streeter%E2%80%93Phelps_equation Streeter Phelps equation to quantify river pollution - also known as the “DO (dissolved oxygen) sag equation”  Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 something interesting in there.  Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

Deutsche 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 Projekt FutuRSI an. Brauchen wir eine nationale Einrichtung zur Forschungssoftware. Und wie soll die aussehen und funktionieren. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links: https://klaus-tschira-stiftung.de/ Klaus Tschira Stiftunghttps://www.futursi.de/ Homepage von FutuRSIhttps://www.futursi.de/partner/ Partner OrganisationenGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 it is crucial to do something about it right from the start.  Links: Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English Edition: I want to come back to agile development practices with my guest Dave Thomas, or Pragmatic Dave as he is also known in the trade. Dave is one of the authors of the manifesto for agile development - and we talk about what has become of the aims and aspirations of agile development since the manifesto's publication in 2001.  Links: https://agilemanifesto.org the manifesto of agile software developmenthttps://pragdave.me/ Dave's home pagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M Agile is dead by Dave Thomas - YouTubeGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

Versión  en espagñol: El software se está comiendo al mundo, y esto incluye al mundo científico. En estos días, hacer ciencia requiere también desarrollar software, ya sea usando Python para analizar datos, o construyendo aplicaciones web en JavaScript para compartir modelos computacionales con expertos. Mientras muchos científicos se encargan ellos mismos de estas tareas, otros las delegan a especialistas en desarrollo de software científico. Estos especialistas tienen el título de "ingenieros de software de investigación". En esta edición del podcast, Sofía Miñano y Carlos Gavidia-Calderón, ambos ingenieros de software de investigación trabajando en el Reino Unido, conversan sobre su profesión. Entre otras cosas, comentan: Cómo se puede hacer carrera en ingeniería de software de investigación.Las diferencias que ven entre construir software dentro y fuera de la comunidad científica.Los retos de la ingeniería de software y de la ciencia en Latinoamérica..La comunidad de ingenieros de software y científicos hispanohablantes.Links Seminario “Charlas RSE en espanol”: https://charlas-rse-espanol.github.io/ Conferencia RSLA 2026: https://rs-latam.org/ ixpantia: https://www.ixpantia.com/en/ Link a la transcripción en español:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_ES.txt  Link to the translated transcript in English: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_EN.txt Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 Adrian Page-Mitchell, we're going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage media. To all of you who love all things retro - we'll be talking about floppy disks a bit.  Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A PDF A formathttps://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-disk history of floppy diskshttps://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2140 The BBC Domesday projecthttps://domesday.computinghistory.org.uk/https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ The excellent Centre of Computing History in Cambridge, UKhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849567/ stability of DVDs and CDshttps://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/ how environmental conditions affect optical drivesConference announcements https://rse.swiss/swiss_rse_day Swiss RSE Day, 31 August 2026https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ International Research Software Conference 7-8 September 2026, Sheffield, UKhttps://rsecon26.society-rse.org/ UK RSE Conference (the 10th anniversary) in Sheffield, UK 9-11 September 2026https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2026/ 9 June 2026, Tromsoe, Norwayhttps://events.hifis.net/event/3249/overview deRSE Collaborations workshop in Goettingen, Germany 23-25 Septemberhttps://us-rse.org/usrse26/ US RSE Conference, 19-21 October 2026, San Jose, CA, USAGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/

English 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 world of AI assisted coding. Links: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html the discussion on spec driven development by Brigitta Boeckeler https://dev.to/cleberdelima/the-end-of-agile-when-the-assumptions-beneath-your-methodology-collapse-3g12 the blog post by Cleber de Lima quoted in the episodehttps://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ Graham's blog post on spec driven developmentDiscussions on Spec Driven and agile development: https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Whitepaper/Is-Agile-Dead.aspxhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/agile-engineering-practices/spec-driven-development-unpacking-2025-new-engineering-practiceshttps://dev.to/jmontagne/mckinsey-just-killed-agile-why-commando-units-are-the-only-way-to-survive-legacy-migration-40lkhttps://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.htmlhttps://ronjeffries.com/categories/dark-scrum/ "dark scrum"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamsandman_is-agile-dead-is-ai-killing-agile-development-activity-7367308312620527616--3-2/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-agile-story-points-why-im-trading-sprints-spec-driven-park-6dfke/Some tools for spec driven development https://kiro.dev/ KIROhttps://github.com/github/spec-kit GitHub’s spec-kithttps://docs.tessl.io/ Tesla Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] 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/