There’s More Than One Way to Knit a Sweater

“What she did was take a standard FTDI USB to serial connector that you would use for programming an [???] or whatever, and changed a few of the configurations on the chip and then we reconfigured the pins at the end to fit the back of the knitting machine, and voila. Connects to the computer.”
 — How you can know exactly how to hack a Brother KH-930e knitting machine from the 1980s but not when it’s appropriate to use “and voila” remains a mystery.