I'm still rather amazed that there is such a term as, "hardware hacking." And that it is considered magical. I grew up with computers where programming them was

I'm still rather amazed that there is such a term as, "hardware hacking." And that it is considered magical. I grew up with computers where programming them was what you did with them. They were hardware. You had to learn at least a little bit of programming to get them to do anything at all. Which was rather annoying and not terribly empowering for anybody but those interested in programming computers. Due to economics of scale in computing the computers I knew when I started programming have faded into the background and have been replaced by appliances that run apps. Today there are programmers who have years of experience who couldn't tell me what the size of a pointer is on their machine or how a program is executed by the operating system. Javascript is so far removed from the concerns of addressing schemes, allocations and registers that it's fun seeing people move into low-power computers from this point of view as if it's the most natural thing in the world. We live in frightfully exciting times.