Lessons from Grace Hopper

The lesson that lingered long after the bell rang was the one about Grace Hopper.

In 1947, her team found an actual moth tucked inside a relay on the Harvard Mark II and logged it as the “first actual case of a bug being found.” A tiny interruption in a very large machine.

I’ve always loved that story because it reminds me that even the most advanced systems can be unraveled by something small and stubborn. Every time I deploy and pause for that first crash report, I think about that moth warming up its wings. Some lessons in tech never expire. 🦋

P.S. In keeping with tradition, I currently have two projects in progress, each hosting its own ecosystem of “wildlife.”