Connecting instruments and managing data transfer between machines is bread and butter stuff for scientists. But you don't want to do the same thing each time you get a new machine or change to another one. Which is why my guest Sébastien Weber from Toulouse, France, created PyMoDAQ, an Open Source Python tool to help you with automating all of that.

Links:

• https://pymodaq.cnrs.fr/en/latest/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdoHByMKfIdn-N51goippSSP_9iG4wds YouTube playlist
• https://jt-pymodaq25.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
• https://github.com/PyMoDAQ/PyMoDAQ GitHub repo
• https://github.com/CEMES-CNRS/pymodaq_plugin_manager

Papers:

• https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032116 Review of scientific instruments paper
• https://www.scientia.global/dr-sebastien-weber-pymodaq-navigating-the-future-of-data-acquisition/
• https://www.photoniques.com/articles/photon/pdf/2024/06/photon2024129p25.pdf

Some of the technology stack:

• https://www.pyqtgraph.org Python QT interface
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/
• https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro PyQT

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Job interviews and coding tests are daunting. But most of us have to go through them at least once in our lives. Like Mike Mroczka, my guest, who is a software engineer. To share his experiences and help others he wrote a book how to get on top of coding interviews: "Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview".

I met with Mike to discuss how interviewing and testing coding skills have changed, what the common pitfalls are that candidates should look out for and what it is we can do to prepare ourselves for the (coding) interview.

Links:

• https://www.mikemroczka.com Mike's home page
• https://www.beyondctci.com the book's homepage
  • https://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com Cracking the Coding Interview book
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/daisyaugerdominguez/2025/06/29/when-to-change-jobs/ article on people changing jobs
• https://interviewing.io
• https://codesignal.com
• https://www.hackerrank.com
• https://leetcode.com
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw Google example interview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1OLMjG52I Monty Python's Silly Job Interview sketch

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For this week's episode I met with (some of) the core developers behind Quarto, an open source tool for scientific publishing: Carlos Scheidegger, Gordon Woodhull and Christophe Dervieux. Listen to our chat and find out more what Quarto is, how it works and what's in store for the future.

Links

• https://quarto.org
• https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli
• https://github.com/typst/typst
• https://posit.co Posit, the company behind Quarto
  • https://posit.co/blog/announcing-quarto-a-new-scientific-and-technical-publishing-system/ the announcement of Quarto 2022

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