> Time to get my hands dirty and do it myself, typing code on my keyboard, like the ancient Mayan and Aztec programmers probably did.

https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/T...

I should think I'll probably see someone posting this on the front page of HN tomorrow, no doubt. I first read it when it was already enormously old, possibly nearly 30 years old, in the mid 1980s when I was about 11 or 12 and starting high school, and voraciously reading all the Golden Age Sci-Fi I could lay my grubby wee hands on. I still think about it, often.