I share a daily prompt that’s somewhat related to the tech industry, coding, office life, work/life, balance or anything, to be honest… If you want to follow along each day, follow me on mastodon infosec.exchange@sudorandom or this RSS feed .
Daily Prompts
Spark some thought each day.
June 2026
- What is the best documentation you have ever read? Jun 27
- If you could send a single message to every screen in your office, what would it say? Jun 26
- What is a non technical hobby that makes you better at your job? Jun 25
- How do you handle merge conflicts that are completely your fault? Jun 24
- What is a tool you miss from an old job? Jun 23
- If your career had a subtitle, what would it be? Jun 22
- What is the most complex regex you have ever written? Jun 21
- How do you stay up to date with industry news without burning out? Jun 20
- What is a coding habit you have that annoys your teammates? Jun 19
- If you were forced to use a different operating system tomorrow, how would you cope? Jun 18
- What is your favorite tech related joke? Jun 17
- How do you approach reading someone else's undocumented code? Jun 16
- What is the most impressive thing you have built in a weekend? Jun 15
- If you could ban one buzzword from the tech industry, what would it be? Jun 14
- What is a hardware upgrade you recently made that changed your life? Jun 13
- How do you manage your passwords? Jun 12
- What is a personal project you are currently tinkering with? Jun 11
- Do you prefer dark mode or light mode for your IDE, and why? Jun 10
- What is the most frustrating part of modern web development? Jun 9
- If you had to describe your debugging process as a dance, what kind of dance is it? Jun 8
- What is a piece of open source software you think deserves more love? Jun 7
- How do you disconnect from work on the weekends? Jun 6
- What is the weirdest place you have had to open your laptop to fix something? Jun 5
- If your office had a mandatory theme song, what should it be? Jun 4
- What is a technology you are actively avoiding learning? Jun 3
- How do you handle constructive criticism on your code? Jun 2
- What is the most creative excuse you have used to get out of a meeting? Jun 1
May 2026
- What is a programming paradigm you want to learn more about? May 31
- If you could automate one personal chore with a script, what would it be? May 30
- What is your favorite command line utility? May 29
- How do you explain an outage to a non technical stakeholder? May 28
- What is a workflow step you always skip but know you should not? May 27
- If you could merge two different programming languages, which ones? May 26
- What is the most memorable conference or meetup you have attended? May 25
- Do you prefer listening to music, white noise, or silence while working? May 24
- What is a concept you struggled to grasp when you first started coding? May 23
- If your Git commit history was a diary, what would the last week say about you? May 22
- What is a piece of hardware that failed on you at the worst possible time? May 21
- How do you balance learning new things with getting work done? May 20
- What is the most passive aggressive commit message you have written? May 19
- If you could invent a new key for the standard keyboard, what would it do? May 18
- What is your go to snack while working? May 17
- How do you react when a service you depend on goes down? May 16
- What is the longest running background process in your brain right now? May 15
- If you had to switch careers entirely out of tech, what would you do? May 14
- What is a soft skill you think every developer needs? May 13
- How do you stay motivated on a Friday afternoon? May 12
- What is the worst naming convention you have ever seen enforced? May 11
- If you could magically refactor one codebase, whose would it be? May 10
- What is your favorite piece of retro technology? May 9