As a building toy, using the properties of how we build, i.e. stud counts on top and bottom, made sense to me

https://marquisdegeek.com/lego_organisation

I've seen my own work in that museum. I felt super old!

+1 for the "why not extend the existing range" brigade

Also, another chance to post this old school version:

https://youtu.be/oPqRwCILbmU

Nothing like curses to build an ascii pacman!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZorbnsFeHQ

Cracking up at the ghost that gets stuck in the maze wall.

If you'd like to see it unfold, step by step, there's a javascript version at

https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/six_hour_raytracer

Plus, it comes with a live demo on

https://marquisdegeek.github.io/six_hour_raytracer/

Not quite, but this emulates her program.

https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/Ada-Origins

And then pave paradise, put up a parking lot.

If you look at how these machines were programmed, rather than used, you'll learn a lot

Any resources you’d recommend?

Ben Eater's 8-bit projects are the easiest place to start if you don't already deeply understand how such computers work. He starts with the hardware and eventually builds up to writing non-trival assembly for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU&list=PLowKtXNTBy...

Yes.

MS provided a kernel-level entry point that other OSes didn't need.

MS have an aggressive auto-update policy that is anti-best practise.

MS have a signed binary agreement that doesn't catch the things it is meant to.

Hahahaha!