miniblog.

I admire hobbyists who build their own kernels, but the size of modern systems is intimidating. Even something like a Bluetooth stack is bigger than historic kernels, and tends to require multiple people. I think it's just the cost of compatibility? Tech collaboration is hard.

There's a great playlist on YouTube that shows the highlights of Doug Engelbart's amazing tech demo from 1968: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76DBC8D6718B8FD3 It's an integrated dev environment, hypertext system, structured text, and even allows multiuser collaboration!

The problem with programming is that it's fun to make things. How do we incentivise reuse and collaboration?