New milestone: I just wrote 150 LoC of glorified machine code (utterly unsafe; lots of magic numbers) and had it work the first time.

https://github.com/akkartik/mu/commit/c8784d1c0f0

Though to be fair I'd been planning it for 16 hours, with lots of preliminary commits that nibbled away at the edges of the problem. Still, time spent thinking before rather than debugging after.

Perhaps this is bad news. Perhaps my brain is getting so colonized by machine code that I'm losing my bearings on what is easy for others.

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