DEVLOG 05 – Breaking Things Until They Obey

The high from yesterday didn’t last long.

Today was pure chaos:

API route failures
Supabase complaints
TypeScript whining about types it absolutely knows exist
An AI response that tried to name a tape "undefined"

Zero glamour. Just error messages and stubbornness.

At one point, the whole system broke because of:

a missing field in the insert payload
and a typo in a column name

Six hours of “what the hell is going on” for one tiny mistake. Welcome to software development.

It’s funny how similar this feels to emotional work:

You think you’ve fixed the main issue
Then something small and stupid breaks everything sideways
And eventually you realize you forgot to wire up something basic

But underneath the frustration, something important is happening:

The Emotional Black Box is turning from an idea into infrastructure.

There’s a real database.
There are real routes.
There’s a devlog documenting all of this.
There’s a home for it at /blackbox in the site.

Glitches aren’t a sign that it’s failing.
They’re proof that it’s alive enough to break.

Tonight, the system runs.
Tomorrow, I make it prettier.
Eventually, this thing is going to feel less like an app
and more like a room people step into when they’re ready to face themselves.