"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it."

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

Most production systems have lots of code to handle important edge cases or improve performance, and this means that the code can be quite complicated. Building minimal versions of libraries or containers can be really educational, and these walkthrough tutorials like this one can be really enlightening, even though we should never run this kind of code in production.

If you're using OpenTelemetry, I highly recommend this post:

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/minimal-js-tracing/ by @jeremymorrell