I really appreciate posts like this and wish there were more of them. Tutorials by experts are valuable, but I also find it comforting to read that other people

I really appreciate posts like this and wish there were more of them. Tutorials by experts are valuable, but I also find it comforting to read that other people are sometimes as clueless as I am, and I think posts like this can end up explaining some of the pitfalls that some more expert users aren't really aware of. We need more humility in software. (I remember that I had tried to write a bootloader myself in assembler, maybe 10 years ago or so, and in the end was just incapable of getting it to work.)