Developer Diary, Ada Lovelace Day

Mini-Server, Part 36 Haiku Ironclad Recipe Sewing Entropy Arbitrage, the Code Mastodon Tool Trunk Library Updates Next Today, due in no small part to Suw Charman-Anderson’s organizing that I actually remember, we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, in turn celebrating one of history’s great weirdos Ada Lovelace. Lord Byron’s only legitimate daughter trained in math from an early age in hopes of staving off her father’s wacky behavior—probably supporting the working classes—Ada grew up fantasizing about building flying robot horses, had some connection to almost any early 1800s British luminary that you can think of, broke norms, got involved in gambling, tried to build a mathematical model of emotions, and (oh, right) made Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine work approachable to a broad audience, and wrote what we now recognize as the first workable1 computer program. Oh, and she did all that and more before dying at the far-too-young age of thirty-six. It seems rather fitting to remind…