Binary Vocabulary

In my evening prayers, not too long ago, I must have said “Let me, o Lord, forsake the conveniences of the last three decades, permit me to wither and wear out my mind on a microcosm of dreariness, spurn the IDE, remit abstraction and confer to me the simplest of binaries, place me in a tartarean prison to pay my debts like the ghosts of my ancestors, with hex editing and microcode, and so recompense the luxury of modern programming with the tedium of bitwise operations.”