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Code for Thought

Code for Thought

By: 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

© 2026 Code for Thought
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Episodes
  • [EN] ByteSized: create your web-site with GitHub Pages - J Cohen, S Gibson
    May 18 2026

    English 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 Sarah Gibson and Jeremy Cohen.

    I'd like to thank the UK STEP-UP project and Imperial College London for supporting this show.

    Links:

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_GitHub
    • https://docs.github.com/en/pages
    • https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/github-for-beginners-getting-started-with-github-pages/
      • https://jekyllrb.com/docs/history/#v0-1-0
    • https://jekyllrb.com/
    • https://liquidjs.com/tutorials/intro-to-liquid.html
    • https://gohugo.io/
    • https://jupyterbook.org/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_STFQc9Y2zY Sarah Gibson’s tutorial on Hugo and GitHub Pages on YouTube
    • https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
    • https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/
    • https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/

    Get in touch

    Thank 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/

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    48 mins
  • [EN] Managing Packages with Pixi - Raniere de Silva and Wolf Vollprecht
    May 11 2026

    English 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 (Prefix - the company behind Pixi), what the tool brings to the table.

    Links:

    • https://prefix.dev/ the open source company making pixi available
    • https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/ the package manager
    • https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
    • https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ mamba package manager

    Get in touch

    Thank 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/

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    29 mins
  • [EN] Computing, but not as you know it: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) - with Michael McLeod
    May 4 2026

    English 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 they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them.

    Links:

    • https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array
    • https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language
    • https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learning
      • https://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx
      • https://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htm
    • https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html
    • https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAs
    • https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as well
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision process
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

    Get in touch

    Thank 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/

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    31 mins
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