Archive - The Thought Drop

Six Months Sober

I don't quite crave alcohol six months in, but at times it does feel like an ex-girlfriend you lived so much life with.

Mar 10 •

November 2024

Microsoft and my tinfoil journey

Either Microsoft support is wildly incompetent or there's a large scale fraud operation going on.

Nov 16, 2024 •

March 2024

Three new on-call providers emerge in a week. What gives?

There's something in the water.

Mar 8, 2024 •

September 2023

The alerting tool ecosystem is so far behind it hurts – and I want to fix it.

"Why hasn't PagerDuty done this?"

Sep 20, 2023 •

March 2023

Your codebase is a Jenga tower

Play your blocks wisely.

Mar 6, 2023 •

February 2023

Incident travel time

The real investment is how fast you get there

Feb 15, 2023 •

July 2022

It has been 10 years since you died.

Jul 17, 2022 •

January 2022

Farewell Bobby.

Jan 24, 2022 •

From Engineer to CEO - Year Three

Three lessons learned over the last year as I've transitioned from a software engineer to a CEO.

Jan 20, 2022 •

March 2021

It's time for standardized labels

We will hate ourselves if we don't do this soon

Mar 6, 2021 •

December 2020

Software and startups

Welcome to The Thought Drop by me, Robert Ross.

Dec 16, 2020 •

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