I Became a flashrom Maintainer. Then I Bought Every SPI Flash Chip I Could Find.

A Bus Pirate bug pointed me at flashrom's Gerrit queue years ago, and I walked away the moment I saw the thread full of corporate email addresses. A coreboot fleet and one uninitialized-variable warning dragged me back in. Now I own a few thousand dollars of unverified SPI flash and a plan to fix that for everyone.