I have always felt I have not really understood things from the bottom up in terms of CS- like how do we really get from bits to software? I have been building Ben Eater's 6502 computer, which has been mostly enjoyable (cutting/stripping wires and getting them into the exact right small little hole is tedious at best, hurts my back at worst).

I have also been reading Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum- though a quite old edition from the early 200s- wondering if its worth putting on hold until I can get my hands on a newer edition.

Next up, I'd like to do Ben Eater's 8 bit computer as well as nand2tetris.