In the new #code4thought episode [EN] I talk to Morane & Benoit from @SWHeritage about the importance of preserving software. It's the first of a series on research software directories. Listen to it on your podcast app or on https://tinyurl.com/2p534exp, https://youtu.be/DhffrPCF550

Season 6 of #code4thought starts today with an episode on [EN] Fortran @fortranlang: Created in the 1950s it's still heavily used in computing especially for HPC. I talked to some of the engineers who shape and keep modernising Fortran. Listen to it on your podcast app or on http://tinyurl.com/5n7c2jze & https://youtu.be/otlNp-n9C9I

A summer #code4thought teaser [EN]: Sandra Gesing tells us what to expect at the 1st US RSE https://us-rse.org/usrse23/ conference in Chicago in Oct. Listen to it on your podcast app, https://tinyurl.com/2sb75vy4 or https://youtu.be/HBt79AJ6TF4

#code4thought https://tinyurl.com/43j5p46c had a sharp increase in downloads for just 1 episode. It looks like a bot's downloading the 1 MP3. Heard story about this, but this is the first time it happened to me. Any other podcaster with similar experiences?

I am having a short break before launching season 6 of #code4thought. Time to catch up on old(er) episodes? With Fabien, I discuss the role sociology plays in engineering https://tinyurl.com/8j8s46xs . And Derek Jones wondered if research software is a mess in https://tinyurl.com/ysyrd2r9

An extra [DE] #code4thought episode: Uwe Konrad tells us all about the new Helmholtz software award to boost and promote the work
of research software engineers. Listen on your podcast app, https://youtu.be/85IkZCjVz5c, https://tinyurl.com/yeenamhb
This marks the end of Season 5. We're going to slow down a bit in August and will be back with Season 6 in September.

New German #code4thought [DE] episode: a chat with Peter Steinbach @psteinb_ from Helmholtz AI about
the use of AI/ML in research and how data science and RSE are connected. Listen on your podcast app, https://youtu.be/M72870DW6yE, https://tinyurl.com/27wfaank

New #Code4Thought [EN] episode: Why is it hard to share research data? Teresa Gomez-Diaz from Uni Paris talks to me about Open Data and Open Software. Now on your podcast app, https://tinyurl.com/mu9wd5xv or https://youtu.be/VCemdhMdpBE

New #Code4Thought [EN] episode: listen to Nick Radcliffe from the Smart Data Foundry (amongst others) about test driven data analysis, his tdda library and why testing your data matters. Now on your podcast app, https://on.soundcloud.com/oKsaN, https://youtu.be/kSf6xZvYyFE or https://tinyurl.com/4f89vsst

And with the latest episode I reached 75 published episodes with #code4thought

New #Code4Thought [EN] episode: #rsecon2023 is upon us. I wanted to know from the organisers Ed Bennett and Sam Mangham what it takes to run this event. Listen to it on your podcast app, https://tinyurl.com/ycxm7xz7, https://youtu.be/ntia-Hn6PpA, https://on.soundcloud.com/rW1Ce

Today my 3 months stay in Paris comes to an end. I met lots of exciting people and recorded a number of podcast interviews for #code4thought incl. with @SWHeritage and #jupytercon23. It’s been great and I am a bit sad to leave.

New German version of #Code4Thought [DE]: Fredo Erxleben from Helmholtz in Dresden talks about his experiences as
software trainer for RSEs and scientists. Listen to it on your podcast app or https://tinyurl.com/5ynt648s, https://youtu.be/fzwefvEhBBg, https://on.soundcloud.com/Pmmxz

Had a fantastic outing at https://www.ITER.org today, meeting Simon Pinches and Olivier Hoenen who kindly showed me around. It is an impressive site by all accounts and it was great to meet them for a face to face interview for #code4thought #iter

Today is my last day at #ucl where I worked as a research software engineer since Dec 2019. It’s been an exciting period and I met many great people.
But now it’s time for a new adventure with podcasting for research software and science, including the #code4thought show.

New #Code4Thought [EN] episode: #jupytercon23 was held in Paris in May. Listen to the report with plenty of interviews
including the Jupyter team) on your podcast app or https://tinyurl.com/nhbjejyv, https://youtu.be/vzux8MIthz0, https://on.soundcloud.com/et8Ns #rse #jupyter #code4thought #Paris

Two episodes of #Code4Thought out this week, if you want to catch up: one on #QuantumComputing https://tinyurl.com/2n3hk9k9 and the last of our ByteSized RSE season https://tinyurl.com/kj363c2k

New #Code4Thought [EN] episode: Overlooked no more! In this final ByteSized RSE session Julian Lenz and I look at The README file. Listen to it on your podcast app, https://tinyurl.com/kj363c2k , https://youtu.be/9tmtv5uEQ7A or https://on.soundcloud.com/EDXXa

New #Code4Thought episode [EN]: in this episode, Oliver Brown from the @EPCC and I look behind the hype
around #QuantumComputing, talking Qubits and Qugates. Listen to it on your podcast app, https://tinyurl.com/2n3hk9k9 , https://youtu.be/Q-1T-5Lwm5c or https://on.soundcloud.com/xV6H8 #rse #EPCC

New German #Code4Thought episode [DE]: Kristine Schima-Voigt and Kay Liewald talk about their experiences of introducing Scrum into
their RSE team at the library in Goettingen, Germany. Listen to it on your favourite podcast app, https://tinyurl.com/yx23s46r , YouTube https://youtu.be/v8sSqmVwTDA , or Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/Zs5yz