In this Halloween special of the Code for Thought podcast, Colin Sauze, a Research Software Engineer at the University of Aberystwyth, tells us about when his code set the lab on fire.

Hear about what went wrong, how his colleagues and superiors reacted, and tips for our listeners in this second edition of the Software Horror Stories series.

If you have comments or suggestions, please tag @Code_4_Thought on Twitter or email us at info@software.ac.uk.

Based on the Coding Confessions project, Software Horror Stories shares people’s unintended oversights when coding and how this impacted their research. The aim is to help normalise mistakes and emphasise how they’re a necessary evil of the learning journey in developing software for research. Look out for new episodes each month!

Would you like to be a guest of this podcast series? Get in touch: s.aragon@software.ac.uk