“You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming.”

FFmpeg released a structured course teaching assembly language as used in their codebase. The repo has over 11,000 stars, which tells you how hungry developers are for low-level knowledge that actually gets used in production. Modern programming culture has spent years convincing people that caring about what the CPU does is obsolete. Projects like FFmpeg remind us that someone has to write the fast code everyone else depends on.