A Dev's Tale of Demo Doom

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
 Especially when you're 5 minutes away from presenting to your team 😩
I spent the whole weekend coding EventHub like my career depended on it:
 ✅ Backend routes running flawlessly
 ✅ Frontend syncing beautifully
 ✅ Database behaving itself
 ✅ Console clean - not a single error
 ✅ Confidence: peaking
By Sunday night, I closed VS Code with a satisfied sigh, whispered "I'm done," and shut the laptop like I just dropped a mic.
 But clearly, I also dropped a curse 😅
Fast forward to Monday's demo…
 I launch the app and suddenly:
🚨 Server freezes
 🚨 Login page won't even load
 🚨 Frontend blank like a new canvas
 🚨 Database connection lost to the spirit world
 🚨 Me: stuck staring at the screen, blinking like a broken chatbot
At one point, I just glanced at my TM, Madam Sonia 👉 https://lnkd.in/gMqmEBg3, silently pleading for divine intervention. She looked back, confused… I looked back at the screen.
 Nothing was making sense.
I checked the code. Then I checked it again. Then again.
 Even whispered to my laptop like it owed me an explanation.
 Still… silence.
 It was as if someone secretly ran npm ruin-my-day.
And honestly, if someone told me my ancestors had pushed a hidden bug from the cloud, I would've believed them.
But that's the dev life and I learnt that:
Never trust a feature that was "perfect last night"
Always test right before showtime
Don't panic - code chaos is part of the journey
Laugh at the mess, learn from it, and bounce back
To every dev who's been humbled by a live bug, a missing login, or a frozen UI during presentations - I feel your pain.
 We crash, we recover, and we deploy again. 💻🔥