GM Nostroids. Having safely arrived at our Northern hideaway, with our Daughter and two grandsons, we have settled in for a nice relaxing week. While they all sleep I thought I would finish the chapter I've been writing about Babbage and Ada. A fun little romp through mid-nineteenth century mechanical computing.

I hate the password nazis. At least 8 chars, at least one number, one punctuation, one uppercase... That's all crap. It leads to "MyPassword1." We have known for decades that a better approach is to pick two or three or four random words. "sticker cube bead robot". That's easy to remember and a LOT better than "Mitzie1."

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There has been a very damagine meme circulating in software circles that Object Oriented Programming is obsolete and harmful. This is just plain silly. It is often promulgated by people who have recently adopted a functional programming language and have become functional zealots. The best software designs are admixtures of the three major paradigms from the 50s and 60s: Structured Programming, Object Oriented Programming, and Functional Programming.

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I currently have more-speech connected to 22 different relays. I keep thinking that there must be an upper limit; but so far none has asserted itself. In the last few hours i've received 80,000 notes, 35,000 of which are duplicates and 25,000 of which are "likes", 1800 DMs, and 5300 zap receipts.

Good Morning Nostrides, Today my wife and I will go see Dungeons and Dragons. That should be fun. Meanwhile I am debugging some nasty little issues with websockets.