Article note: That is super cool.
I'd read it was discrete component RTL, but not that it was made entirely from wired logic and inverters made of glorious purpose-made, gold-doped NPN BJTs
Structural engineering is the art of molding materials we don’t wholly understand, into shapes we can’t fully analyze, so as to withstand forces we can’t really assess, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.