the obtuseness is the point! This is true of a lot of my work[1][2][3].
The problems you run into when doing things you shouldn't do are often really fun.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342382
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These were great reads, thanks for linking. The writeup around the UUID page was super interesting!