Making Software: How does a screen work?

Dan Hollick is writing and illustrating a “reference manual for people who design and build software”, and he just released its first chapter: How does a screen work?. And, I appreciate him starting with the hardware before digging into the software:

[...] most people have no idea how a screen works. Any time you see a pixel light up, you are witnessing actual witchcraft before your eyes - light bending through electric crystals just so you can read a tweet in bed.

It reminded me of Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet, a typeface (or typographic experiment) he created in response to the technology found in a CRT monitor.

Implied in that experiment was an urge to truly understand the technology his work was created for or displayed on. It seems Dan's manual is aiming for a similar rigorousness, which is exciting!