Reposted by Viv
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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![Page 38 of a pencil sketchbook.
The mechanitch takes rigid, stuttering steps in her be-buckled boots through a stream of empty speech bubbles from the wizard and trucker. She has completely tuned the world out.
Dividing the page, a thin band of news-ticker scrolls. "KEEP IT TOGETHER? KEEP IT TOGETHER!". The two versions of the same phrase are separated with the circle and star facet sigils as seen repeatedly across the comic.
From our perspective, she and the 3d-printed writing desk are spotlighted as the gap is closed. In the darkness, the wizard rummages around in the bonnet of her car. There is an inset of the wizard handing over the scroll tube as last seen on page 21, saying something brief our point of view just does not internalise at all. There are captions suggesting our poor mechanitch has just about gone past her limit - certain phrases are in stereo, written practically on top of each other, and they will be represented as [ONE/TWO] in this alt text.
"It's taking everything [I/I] have. Somehow, this one job is pushing all [my buttons/my limits] at once. How does anyone handle this? I want to [GO HOME/SUCCEED], despite my[self/self]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2gyuei6mrryotgfjkynh7me/bafkreihliqxx3hei2pw5ryciz4akpivnf5omthwrs6h6rstbzj34xmil54)
