
Excuses for Demo Day
It worked ten minutes ago. The client is watching.
Sixty excuses, ranked from "plausible" to "the office dog", all tested in production by people who no longer work here.
- “The office dog ate a critical dependency. He reports directly to the CEO so this is above my pay grade.”
- “The API is resting. It's a REST API after all.”
- “This is a security feature. Hackers can't steal what doesn't load.”





