As someone who's been in software for almost 25 years now, I read through this in amazement of how much new stuff still keeps coming in. This industry never stops and that makes it such a fascinating (but arguably harsh) world to be in.

Looking at this feels like seeing the source code of a 64k demo, learning about Mode 13h and trying to replicate it in Turbo Pascal.

And, much like the old days of graphics programming, there's a good chance all of this knowledge will be mostly irrelevant soon, as the abstraction layers tend to come quicker and quicker and take care of the hard foundational work underneath. Then it'll be many of us here discussing whether or not it was good to have been with it from the start, to really get it, or whether playing with the highly-abstracted components is all that's needed to succeed with it.

Either way, super cool to see the pace here and I loved the "I only have a macbook" section.