Charles Babbage, perfectionist engineer
www.recursion.org/2015/11/22/charles-babbage-perfectionist-engineer
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
I recently finished Sydney Padua's entertaining and educational The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Several of the stories are available online, but the book is well put together (not to mention much easier to read than the web version) and includes a bunch of integrated source materials and illustrated footnotes.