Big thank you to author and OP. This is exactly the kind of homebrew recipe post I've been waiting for. I knew it had to be basically cookbook by now but really simple examples like this with no fluff are surprisingly hard to find. (Anyone got others?)

I've been thinking about similar experiments with some obscure esolang for a long time, so more detail on total time/cost would be nice. Also.. if it's correct that this size model is about the right minimal choice for starting such efforts.. what are the next steps if you wanted to shrink it to only specialize in the target? Should you go for distillation or ablation?