Margaret Hamilton obit at the NY Times. Mentions the incident during the Apollo 11 landing when Buzz Aldrin flipped a switch, that caused a CPU overload. The software survived because Hamilton had anticipated and simulated such a scenario and had added logic to prioritize essential tasks over others. Paul Curto, who nominated Hamilton for a NASA Space Act Award, called Hamilton's work "the foundation for ultra-reliable software design." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obituaries/margaret-hamilton-dead.html https://archive.ph/kD3F4 4/n

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I’ve been rather enjoying Indigo lately. I wasn’t initially sold on the idea of merging Mastodon and Bluesky because I figured it would end up feeling messy, somehow. But I’ve come around to it, and bringing these two communities together feels to me a lot more like the Twitter of old. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/indigo-for-bluesky-mastodon/id6763755310

A friendly reminder that if you use Mastodon to contact developers about feature requests or bugs and then auto delete your toots, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. Developers use links to those toots in bug trackers.

Attached: 2 images Teezee out for Apple Watch and Vision Pro (I wish I had a Vision Pro to try it out with!) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teezee-world-time/id6790106315 https://xenocode.co.jp/teezee

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It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the ta...