Code for Thought

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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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/  (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile)

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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 learninghttps://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinxhttps://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 processhttps://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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English Edition: preserving digital data has become essential for archives and libraries, as we have seen an explosion of content. I met with various experts in the field who talk to me about the different aspects and facets of saving our data for future generations to come: Thomas Ries (University of Austin, Texas, US), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie Mackinnon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andy Jackson (Digital Preservation Coalition, UK) and Laurisa Sastoque Pabon (University of Southampton, UK). 
Some links to tools and sites mentioned in the episode:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/format/proformatsearch.aspx?status=new  Pronom database by the National Archive in the UK
https://www.dpconline.org/ Digital Preservation Coalitionhttps://bit-list.dpconline.org/ list of 'endangered digital material'

https://thorsten-ries.net/ Thorsten Ries home page
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-preservation-southampton Digital preservation at the Uni. Southampton
https://arcticworldarchive.org/ Svalbard Arctic World Archive 
https://piql.com/ piql data preservationhttps://github.com/piql GitHub Piql - the archiving file format

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/434376-preserving-today-s-digital-data-for-tomorrow 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w storing data in glass/silica 
https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Project Silica
https://english.umd.edu/directory/matthew-kirschenbaum Kirschenbaum papers on recovering digital texts etc. 
https://www.kali.org/tools/foremost/ the open source "forensic" data tool 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls going back in time: a link with a description of the Dead Sea scrolls 
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Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!
Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:
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UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie 
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/  (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile)

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