I would think the kind of people who go on a website like HN think this is awesome as well. I know not all the audience of HN is necessarily software / hardware engineers, but definitely there's enough of them on here go drive interest.

... or you want to learn how and why to use an oscilloscope ground spring [21'15]

IMHO, breadboards should come with warnings, to the effect of:

* Keep this thing pristine. Dust, corrosion, liquid, or any other indignity will invisibly poison the breadboard and take its toll on your sanity later.

* Use only DIP legs and 22-24 gauge wire. Shoving a TO220 into these spring clips will spread them and take its toll on your sanity later.

* Decouple, decouple, decouple. The distributed inductance of a breadboard is nontrivial and if you're not putting a nanofarad next to every logic chip, you will summon ghosts.

* Buying cheap breadboards with subpar contact plating will yield exactly the sort of performance you'd imagine. Breadboards are supposed to be an EASY way to build circuits, not a CHEAP way. You get what you pay for.

With all these things in mind, they're quite good at what they do.

Solder can be awfully darn quick. More and more these days my "breadboarding" is between modules such as e.g., a microcontroller development board and one or more breakout boards. If I can't find a breakout board for a particular component, I'll make one using a proto board. So the actual quantity of wiring has gone down. I don't do things like wiring an entire address/data bus.

seconded. This is the most in-depth well-made explanation of computing I've seen on the internet.