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I immediately thought of this as well. Step 12 cracked me up!

12) Take a chromium-etched photo-lithographic quartz mask with your desired circuit pattern and shine a laser beam through it to project the circuit pattern onto the wafer.

"Your desired circuit pattern" might as well be "draw the rest of the fucking owl."

This course is pretty much what you described, but incredibly good pedagogy. https://www.nand2tetris.org/

There’s a lovely game called Turing Complete on Steam that will take you from a nand gate through making a simple game in your own assembly that run on the processor you built. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

Also MHRD https://steamcommunity.com/app/576030/

And https://nandgame.com/

It's actually funny that that meme is now not viable anymore, due to the proliferation of text-to-image generators.