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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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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Deutsche 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, habe ich mich über Ursprünge, Herausforderungen und wie es mit der LNDW weitergeht unterhalten.

Die LNDW in Berlin findet am 6. Juni 2026 statt und Tickets noch am selben Tag zu haben. Also nix wie hin...

Links

• https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/
• https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm hier ist das Programm zur LNDW
• https://lndw-tickets.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/2535589 Tickets
• https://www.campusberlinbuch.de/de/Index
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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/

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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

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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

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Deutsche Ausgabe: ICON, das große Software Paket für Klimamodellierung, Wettervorhersagen und andere Anwendungsbereiche, ist auf gutem Wege Open Source Software zu werden. Aber daß das nicht immer ganz so leicht ist, werden uns in dieser Folge Hendryk Bockelmann und Jan (Jeff) Frederik Engels vom Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum und Linda Schlemmer vom Deutschen Wetterdienst erzählen.

Hier ein paar Links:

• https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/news-archive/icon-open-source
• https://www.icon-model.org/icon_model/getting_started
• https://gitlab.dkrz.de/icon/icon-model
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31FjyhyyqwkvOaj_e-EbJa4F0Z0n8yGU online courses
• https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/news/icon-team-receives-international-recognition-for-groundbreaking-achievements-in-high-performance-computing
• https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/announcements/2025/icon-team-wins-gordon-bell-prize-for-climate-modeling

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