Por que no los DOS? (Pun intended)

But really it’s been two things. I’ve had to adapt algorithms to some extremely ancient hardware that had another twenty years planned service, and I’ve had to work on robot operating systems where timing of operations is extremely important

“human legible”

Have you looked at a punch card? I like some assembly, but the punch card is just dots. They blur together until all you see are holes and more holes and structure has lost all meaning.

I’ve submitted a few pull requests to some self hosting software repos. I’ve also put in a lot of time editing a large crowd sourced data set. Currently working on a crowd sourced set of translations on old public domain comics.

Even just reporting bugs you find or interface pain points is a big help. Nothing wrong with just being a user.