I&#x27;m reminded of that video that I believe was posted to Hacker News a while back of the young female programmer live-coding a simple Space Invaders clone in JavaScript. What she did wasn&#x27;t boring, but that&#x27;s because it was novel (her sex provided that), it was fun (being a game), and most importantly it was obviously well-rehearsed.<p>If you&#x27;re going to do live-coding, you have to realize that it&#x27;s far less demo than it is performance; and if it&#x27;s not going to be that, do us all a favor and skip it.