Ideas & Prompts

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Topics we feel have potential

  • Buzzfeed style quizzes
    • What programming language are you?
    • What IT role are you?
  • Digital Nomads/ Indie Hackers
  • Being Overemployed
  • Remote work (with new angles)
    • Every meeting is 5 minutes late, etc.
  • Crypto
  • Open Source Software
  • Startups
  • VCs (including YCombinator)
  • Agile - especially https://www.scaledagileframework.com/
  • AI/ML
  • Developers/ Software engineering
    • Always think code written by others is ass
    • 2 engineers in a room will always strong and opposing opinions on something dumb like dark mode
    • have to google everything
    • IDE only devs that won’t touch a command line
    • Serverless
    • Brew installing the known universe to your machine to do 1 thing
  • Tech Comanpanies - FAANG and others
  • Tech Culture
    • Overuse of swag & perks to entice new hires
    • New age art style “Why does new age tech art not include me, a straigth cis white male”
    • Stickers on laptops
  • Security
  • Fishbowl & Teamblind, anonymous work discussion apps
  • Bus Number
  • Twitter obsession with thread bois

Prompts - news

Useful inspo news sources

Headlines waiting to be molded

Are these all winners? Probably not. Take them and mold them as you see fit.

  • large corp asks in company wide survey “will you leave this year?”, excited that not one employee is considiering leaving
  • founder unsure if *.ai domain correctly conveys how futuristic their startup is
  • software dev getting bullied for using printf() to debug instead of his IDE debugger
  • Ancient stone Kanban board found full of tech debt - similar vein to Definition of Punk Found in Ancient Manuscript
  • Weird intern pushes to production on last day and leaves
  • Weird intern makes fish in microwave, forces company to become remote first
  • Developer finally finishes perfect codebase no one will ever use - a true masterpiece. Ties to Temple OS
  • Big Corp ecstatic they saved 0.5% on cloud costs last year, throws party for whole company “pull out all the stops”
  • Status meeting magically makes project get done faster than working on it
  • Project finishes significantly ahead of schedule when client accurately describes what they want on the first go; team unsure what to do and hurts themselves in their confusion
  • Javascript framework feud erupts into combat
  • Hilarious high school student realizes he can print whatever he wants to the console
  • Amazon AI Catheter for warehouse workers that can’t go to bathroom breaks
  • Tech campus measuring contest finally spiraling out of control
    • Company with giant campus obviously compensating
  • Why our team switched from Java to Brainfuck - real example
  • Temporary remote employee concerned they will have to start showering again when the office opens
  • Staff Engineer confident that local bake shop would benefit from Kubernetes
  • software engjneer excited to spend next 40 years building useless tools and then dying
  • Overemployed Tech Lead tired of attending 5 standups a day
  • pair programming partner uncomfortable using anime titty mousepad
  • Midday Traffic jam entirely comprised of Amazon vehicles
  • Dev Tunes Back Into Refinement Session - No Stories Ready
  • Agile adds Filibuster to Ceremonies as Congress announces shift to Agile
  • Bablyon Health Partners with WebMD to confirm you definitely have cancer
  • Slack to make UI more confusing after Salesforce acquisition to match parent company
  • Google to launch a privacy-first* analytics (do the whole thing as a big “wink wink, definitely privacy friendly, oh yeah for sure”)
  • Orly fake Oreilly book covers - Example search