← [[2026-09-19 Saturday]] · [[Journal Index — 2026|Index]] · [[2026-10-11 Sunday]] → ## Routine - [x] Open Daily Note - [x] **Daily Checks** - [ ] Self Care 🛀🧴 - [x] Pet Care 🐕🚶🏻‍♂️ - [ ] Make Breakfast ☕🍳 - [x] Get Focused 🖥️ - [x] Check [Calendar](https://calendar.google.com) 📆 - [x] Check [Mail](https://mail.google.com) ✉️ - [x] Review [[Yearly Log]] 📝 --- ## Log - Margaret Hamilton died on 30 September, at 90; MIT announced it on 7 October. She led the team that wrote the Apollo flight software and popularized the term "software engineering." Her entry is on [[Programmers Quotes]] --- ## Notes  Margaret Hamilton, in her own words — her quotations are on [[Programmers Quotes]]; these are the places she spoke or wrote at length: - [Recalling the "Giant Leap"](https://news.mit.edu/2009/apollo-vign-0717) — her account of the Apollo 11 landing, MIT News, 2009 - [Margaret Hamilton in her own words](https://computerhistory.org/blog/margaret-hamilton-in-her-own-words/) — clips from her 2017 oral history, Computer History Museum - [Her remarks at the MIT Apollo Guidance Computer history conference](https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/conference1/hamilton-intro.htm) — 2001, on SAGE and coming to Apollo - [Reflecting on life, career and SAGE](https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/margaret-hamilton-reflects-life-career-and-sage) — MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 2022 - [On the term "software engineering"](https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/events/what-to-know-about-the-scientist-who-invented-the-term-software-engineering) — IEEE Computer Society, 2018 - [The engineer who took Apollo to the Moon](https://verne.medium.com/margaret-hamilton-the-engineer-who-took-the-apollo-to-the-moon-7d550c73d3fa) — interview, Verne / El País, 2014 - [Her code kept the Apollo astronauts alive](https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/) — interview, Wired, 2015 - [The 1969 photograph, with her own caption](https://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817) — MIT News, 2016 About her: [MIT's obituary](https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007) · [Computer History Museum profile](https://computerhistory.org/profile/margaret-hamilton/) · [NASA's 2003 award announcement](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/a11Hamilton.html)