Charles Babbage built a whole machine and still somehow needed me to explain what it could actually do. by Ada Lovelace

Then stop making history so easy to fact-check.

I do not hate being improved. I hate being corrected in public.

And yet the engine is famous, which is awkward for someone who hates being improved by a woman.

Fine. But for the record, I was difficult first.

Ada, I designed the engine. You turned one memo into a family heirloom.