Developer Stories

Science Gateways 13.08.2020 25:02 ↓

Successful and reproducible science is not just about writing software, but creating interfaces and interactions that are comfortable for researchers to use. In this episode, Sandra Gesing tells us about the importance of science gateways.

Opening Eyes and Turning Lights On 06.08.2020 37:43 ↓

Meet Radovan from Tromsø in Northern Norway, who is building exciting software and teaching students how to be good engineers. He is also busy building and growing the Nordic RSE community with colleagues from Sweden, Finland and other countries.

A Lifelong Learner 30.07.2020 32:48 ↓

Crafting computational narratives and answering questions in the real world with grace and Python.

Augmenting reality for blind people 23.07.2020 26:45 ↓

Ever wondered how AR can help blind and low vision people? Meet Camilla Longden, RSE at Microsoft, who uses AI and machine learning technologies to help improve their lives.

We've been around a while! 16.07.2020 21:32 ↓

How far back does research software engineering go?

Language shapes reality 09.07.2020 39:39 ↓

Meet Stephan Druskat, RSE at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Listen to Stephan explain his exciting work for research in linguistics and his contributions to making software citable.

The Research Software Engineer CEO 02.07.2020 25:06 ↓

What prompts a research software engineer to become a CEO?

Software is the backbone 25.06.2020 39:15 ↓

For about 10 years the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK has been the backbone of research software engineering. But how did their work fare during the coronavirus pandemic? And how will research software engineering change in future?

Awesome Airplanes 18.06.2020 23:58 ↓

Solving problems for a safer world

Get the bugs! 11.06.2020 25:39 ↓

Today from across the pond: How research software engineers help fighting infectious diseases like the coronavirus. What challenges do they face?

Software as a Garden 04.06.2020 28:15 ↓

Have you ever thought about what makes good software and communities? Hint: it's a lot of the same as would be needed to tend a garden.

Spack Attack! 21.05.2020 21:26 ↓

Package management, or Spack Attack? Listen and decide for yourself!

Coming Home 07.05.2020 23:59 ↓

Sometimes becoming an RSE is greater than the job description. It's about finding a place where you belong.

The Cloud Engineer 23.04.2020 20:46 ↓

Bob Killen talks about a new kind of research software engineer, one that focuses on message based workflows on container clusters.

Software on the Farm 09.04.2020 20:58 ↓

How do software and agriculture collide? Christoph gives us a first hand look at what it means to work on and develop for a farm.

Package Management? That's Easy. 26.03.2020 26:56 ↓

Kenneth Hoste is a passionate HPC admin and RSE that maintains the EasyBuild project.

The Monkey Flowers 12.03.2020 15:25 ↓

How surprising interests can lead us to being an RSE

The People Side of Software 27.02.2020 20:15 ↓

A reminder about the value of people.

Open Source Biology: a democratic future 13.02.2020 22:48 ↓

Designing DNA... only a teardrop away!

Chasing Simulations and the Sun 02.02.2020 20:18 ↓

A story of learning, and following both passions for science and the sunshine.

HPC and Samoan Fire Knife Dancing, What Could Go Wrong? 16.01.2020 21:53 ↓

Ben Glick shares a rich undergraduate experience that ranges from building an HPC system to dancing with fire.

Hidden Layers of Data 02.01.2020 19:35 ↓

The beautiful intersection between digital humanities and computer science.

Space Software 19.12.2019 25:16 ↓

Code for the moon, and even if you stay on the ground, you'll land among the stars.

Open up, Neuroscience! Here comes NeuroDebian 05.12.2019 29:59 ↓

Research software engineering for open source neuroscience

The Lab Without A Couch 21.11.2019 13:51 ↓

Ross thought he might want snacks and nap-pods, but found happiness in The Lab Without A Couch