Don't Choke (A Guide to Live Coding performance)

You are in your bedroom. The code works. You are on stage. The code breaks. Why? Because the Gods of Hacking hate you.

Performance is not Engineering. Performance is Psychology. It is the art of pretending you meant to do that. When you type slep 1 instead of sleep 1, and the beat stops, you have two choices:

1. Panic.
2. Raise your hands like a wizard and pretend the silence is “Avant Garde.”

Be the Wizard