Ada Lovelace Day!

I sort of missed it, but yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day!

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Ada Lovelace, of course, is the patron saint of Dess, the hypernumerate character from my Midnighters series. She's also one of the towering figures in the history of computing, given that she wrote the world's first computer program . . . back in 1843. This achievement is as amazing as it sounds, given that the computer didn't exist back then, except in theory. But that didn't stop Ada.

It's stories like this that make me realize that...