Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 04:36:54 JST mhoye

   A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.

   • Paul Cantrell repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 04:36:52 JST Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

     in reply to

     @mhoye didn't know that either.

     Honestly man the more I learn about women in computing in history, the madder I am about the state of tech today.

   • Embed this notice
     mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 04:36:53 JST mhoye

     in reply to

     On a more serious note, I didn't realize that Hamilton coined the term "software engineer".

     Paul Cantrell and Rich Felker repeated this.