[tpoindex]

Yeah, I was expecting the geek equivalent of "How to Draw an Owl in Two Simple Steps" meme. Step 1: Start with some NAND gates. Step 2: Now make the rest of the fucking CPU.

Random reference: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d4/28/29/d42829227cd7526d75af...

[zestyping]

I immediately thought of this as well. Step 12 cracked me up!

12) Take a chromium-etched photo-lithographic quartz mask with your desired circuit pattern and shine a laser beam through it to project the circuit pattern onto the wafer.

"Your desired circuit pattern" might as well be "draw the rest of the fucking owl."

[troupe]

This course is pretty much what you described, but incredibly good pedagogy. https://www.nand2tetris.org/

[dahart]

There’s a lovely game called Turing Complete on Steam that will take you from a nand gate through making a simple game in your own assembly that run on the processor you built. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

[satvikpendem]

It's actually funny that that meme is now not viable anymore, due to the proliferation of text-to-image generators.