I really enjoy and am inspired by the idea that people like Dettmer (and probably this Samsja person) are the spiritual successors to homebrew hackers in the 70

I really enjoy and am inspired by the idea that people like Dettmer (and probably this Samsja person) are the spiritual successors to homebrew hackers in the 70s and 80s. They have pretty intimate knowledge of many parts of the whole goddamn stack, from what's going on in each hardware component, to how to assemble all the components into a rig, up to all the software stuff: algorithms, data, orchestration, etc. Am also inspired by embedded developers for the same reason