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Robert Ross
Personal blog · bobbytables.iocareerprogramming
Robert Ross writes The Thought Drop, a personal blog at bobbytables.io about career and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Your codebase Is a Jenga Tower”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Dropping some thoughts from my own mind.
Most-linked posts?
- Your codebase Is a Jenga Tower3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
- Incident Travel Time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-16
What Hacker News says?
Alcohol was a net-positive in so many ways for me. I talk more about that aspect in the 6 month post here: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/six-months-sober
Comment linking /p/six-months-sober
on “13 Months Sober (2025)”Submitted 13 Months Sober (2025) as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft and My Tinfoil Journey as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your codebase Is a Jenga Tower as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incident Travel Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slack Operating System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs don't want pixels, they want tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Natural Opinions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three new on-call providers emerge in a week. What gives? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codebase is a Jenga tower – by Robert Ross as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codebase Is a Jenga Tower as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incident Travel Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Engineer to CEO – Year Three as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Time for Standardized Labels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snapchat, disclosing usernames could be a potential violation of privacy as a story · 1 points
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