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

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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 format
• https://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-disk history of floppy disks
• https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2140 The BBC Domesday project
  • https://domesday.computinghistory.org.uk/
• https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ The excellent Centre of Computing History in Cambridge, UK
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849567/ stability of DVDs and CDs
• https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/ how environmental conditions affect optical drives

Conference announcements

• https://rse.swiss/swiss_rse_day Swiss RSE Day, 31 August 2026
• https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ International Research Software Conference 7-8 September 2026, Sheffield, UK
• https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/ UK RSE Conference (the 10th anniversary) in Sheffield, UK 9-11 September 2026
• https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2026/ 9 June 2026, Tromsoe, Norway
• https://events.hifis.net/event/3249/overview deRSE Collaborations workshop in Goettingen, Germany 23-25 September
• https://us-rse.org/usrse26/ US RSE Conference, 19-21 October 2026, San Jose, CA, USA

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Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!

Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:

• Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org
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• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)
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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 episode
• https://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ Graham's blog post on spec driven development

Discussions on Spec Driven and agile development:

• https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Whitepaper/Is-Agile-Dead.aspx
• https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/agile-engineering-practices/spec-driven-development-unpacking-2025-new-engineering-practices
• https://dev.to/jmontagne/mckinsey-just-killed-agile-why-commando-units-are-the-only-way-to-survive-legacy-migration-40lk
• https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html
• https://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/ KIRO
• https://github.com/github/spec-kit GitHub’s spec-kit
• https://docs.tessl.io/ Tesla

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Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!

Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:

• Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org
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• 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)

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