> be Alyssa Rosenzweig > look at Apple's M1 GPU and see a black box > Apple provides almost no public hardware documentation > decide to figure out how the GPU works anyway > start reverse-engineering Apple's GPU interfaces in 2021 > use macOS itself as the closest thing to documentation > get a triangle rendering on the M1 within weeks > realize the impossible-looking problem might actually be solvable > join forces with the Asahi Linux community > build an open-source graphics stack from scratch > keep reverse-engineering hardware Apple never documented publicly > eventually reach conformant OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 > make Apple's M1 and M2 GPUs work properly under Linux > turn a completely closed GPU into an open platform > prove that undocumented hardware can still be understood > become one of the leading voices in open-source graphics