Daily Prompts
Spark some thought each day.
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 Bluesky kmcd.dev , Mastodon infosec.exchange@sudorandom , or this RSS feed .
June 2026
18 prompts- Jun 18 If you were forced to use a different operating system tomorrow, how would you cope?
- Jun 17 What is your favorite tech related joke?
- Jun 16 How do you approach reading someone else's undocumented code?
- Jun 15 What is the most impressive thing you have built in a weekend?
- Jun 14 If you could ban one buzzword from the tech industry, what would it be?
- Jun 13 What is a hardware upgrade you recently made that changed your life?
- Jun 12 How do you manage your passwords?
- Jun 11 What is a personal project you are currently tinkering with?
- Jun 10 Do you prefer dark mode or light mode for your IDE, and why?
- Jun 9 What is the most frustrating part of modern web development?
- Jun 8 If you had to describe your debugging process as a dance, what kind of dance is it?
- Jun 7 What is a piece of open source software you think deserves more love?
- Jun 6 How do you disconnect from work on the weekends?
- Jun 5 What is the weirdest place you have had to open your laptop to fix something?
- Jun 4 If your office had a mandatory theme song, what should it be?
- Jun 3 What is a technology you are actively avoiding learning?
- Jun 2 How do you handle constructive criticism on your code?
- Jun 1 What is the most creative excuse you have used to get out of a meeting?
May 2026
31 prompts- May 31 What is a programming paradigm you want to learn more about?
- May 30 If you could automate one personal chore with a script, what would it be?
- May 29 What is your favorite command line utility?
- May 28 How do you explain an outage to a non technical stakeholder?
- May 27 What is a workflow step you always skip but know you should not?
- May 26 If you could merge two different programming languages, which ones?
- May 25 What is the most memorable conference or meetup you have attended?
- May 24 Do you prefer listening to music, white noise, or silence while working?
- May 23 What is a concept you struggled to grasp when you first started coding?
- May 22 If your Git commit history was a diary, what would the last week say about you?
- May 21 What is a piece of hardware that failed on you at the worst possible time?
- May 20 How do you balance learning new things with getting work done?
- May 19 What is the most passive aggressive commit message you have written?
- May 18 If you could invent a new key for the standard keyboard, what would it do?
- May 17 What is your go to snack while working?
- May 16 How do you react when a service you depend on goes down?
- May 15 What is the longest running background process in your brain right now?
- May 14 If you had to switch careers entirely out of tech, what would you do?
- May 13 What is a soft skill you think every developer needs?
- May 12 How do you stay motivated on a Friday afternoon?
- May 11 What is the worst naming convention you have ever seen enforced?
- May 10 If you could magically refactor one codebase, whose would it be?
- May 9 What is your favorite piece of retro technology?
- May 8 How many monitors is the correct number of monitors?
- May 7 What is a tech myth you wish people would stop believing?
- May 6 Do you prefer working with a large team or a small one?
- May 5 What is the most useless certification you have earned?
- May 4 If your life had a loading screen, what tip would it display?
- May 3 What is a piece of software you rely on that looks terrible but works perfectly?
- May 2 How do you keep track of your daily tasks?
- May 1 What is your favorite desk accessory that serves absolutely no purpose?