@Dianora@ottawa.place
The username I use here is a remnant of my old IRCD days. It's actually a name I grabbed from a book by an author we had as a guest at one of the earliest CanCon's ! (Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay our GOH) I kept it for mastodon when I first got on because it was mighty quiet here when I started and more people knew that name. Now I try to keep my geeky side off of here (It leaks over from time to time) but my hamradio side is https://mastodon.radio/deck/@va3db
and my FreeBSD side is https://bsd.network/web/@DianeBruce
When I was taking apart ircd, specifically hybrid, to figure out my own garbage patches, I'd often get stuck reading a clever section of code and "Dianora" was one of the names often attached to it.
So many amazing little ideas in that software. I'm not sure which were yours anymore, but I greatly enjoyed that time (late nineties to 2001 or so).
The main thing I strove for was readability. Always. My career was hard real-time/embedded down to the bare metal at times coding and that I carried forth into my other code. I worried about overruns, after finding trashed pointers filled with ASCII when debugging others real time code you betcha I was anal. Remember we didn't always have the benefit of distinct address space in embedded.... I'm glad you liked my code.
Eye boost 4 personal introductions, Dianora. 
