Oh man, this has been on my mind lately. I’ve been considering writing a thinkpiece on the word “just” in software tutorials, as in “just install Python” or the worst offender, “just NPM install --save-dev” as if that, with no other information, is enough, when what they’re really saying is “just do this and then all that other complicated stuff you should have learned already”. I think it’s fine to preface a tutorial with “this assumes you’ll know x, y, and z” but wow do I see a lot of “installation instructions: npm install --save-dev” where the reality is two days of troubleshooting to get a thing working.