The opening credits are pretty cool too, but from a traditional animation perspective rather than geek cred: http://b.1339.cf/dbbbhjp.webm
I noticed emacs and CLISP both open in CDE about 20s into it.
I was pretty amazed by the spot-on references and actually working game of life animation when I saw that.
Does anyone know of other blog posts like this? I watch a lot of anime, but never see anything written in English about the creation of many of the impressive animation and CG usage.
I don't know about blog posts, but if you want to see a lot of (fictionalized) details about how the sausage is made, you should watch Shirobako.