Robert F.P. Ludwick

Meanwhile, someone in Sweden is cursing when their restroom light randomly flips on and off while they're on the can.

I've been using the word splendiferous for ages now... the whole time thinking it wasn't actually a word. But it is. And I've been using it correctly the whole time. I don't know what to make of this. @merriam-webster.com got any advice? www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

perfect, no notes

Me, every year.

Wooo Portland metro!!

I will never forgive EA for this.

The solve is that her parents will devour it all

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

Baseball players make more money than most other Americans, and the fact that he returned to baseball specifically for health insurance is an indictment about how healthcare operates in this country.

It’s here! @beetlemoses.bsky.social

Turns out Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is *quite fun*. I didn't think I liked any games in the "survivor" category, until this one.

I should have expected this to be a hit, but I did not. Cait schooled me.

After 26 years as an active fan of the Tennessee Titans, and also of the NFL, I’m out. I have better things to do with my time and attention than keep hoping beyond hope that the Titans will ever be a functional pro sports team.

I don’t remember watching much Winnie the Pooh, growing up. Now that I’ve got two kids and the 2/yr kiddo is watching a lot of Pooh Bear, I can conclude this: the 2011 movie is Pinnacle Pooh (TM).

That’s exactly how they work!

@swimmercait.bsky.social WHY

So now TSA agents can be even crabbier to travelers. Great. I don’t care if they sit down, they can do their jobs while sitting.

meep meep

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

Everybody’s hating on this, but it’s legitimately useful information. If a workplace or a hiring manager is going to be cracking down arbitrarily on petty stuff that doesn’t matter, that’s a very good thing to know!

Disagree. This is an arbitrary line in the sand, and bizarre to boot. It. Does. Not. Matter.

I think @swimmercait.bsky.social and I felt as exhausted as the cast must’ve been after we finished @gamechanger.dropout.tv S8 finale, Last Talent Standing. I need that second meal now.

Plenty of human-written self-help and career development books do the exact same thing; take their concept and rehash it ad-nauseam. The *only* positive thing I'll say about this is that sometimes it takes rephrasing something in a different way for different people to understand something.

Wiccanery - a short comic about a witch and a vampire.

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

There's always some particular "food week" in the PDX metro area. Next week's is fried chicken. Love to see it. www.theactualportland.com/pdxfriedchic... cc @swimmercait.bsky.social

The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that

I asked my 8yo what The Muppet Show should be about. Musical guests, funny skits, singing. That’s already what the show is about! Just make that! She also suggested @alyankovic.bsky.social for a guest because “he’s basically a human Muppet.” That checks out!

[P] I might suggest “the Muppets must put on a variety show with a different guest host each week. Various shenanigans happen both on stage and backstage.”

Rolos are underrated, but damn they aren't a social candy lol

My phone just informed me I averaged over eleven hours of daily screen time on it last week. I’d love to know what is being factored into that calculation. There’s no way.

You'll never believe it - homelabber forced to contend with a network switch failure. robert.ludwick.us/2026/08/28/c...

I've now had kombucha for the first time today, and am disappointed to report that seemingly they aren't all nearly as sour & tart as the one I got. Apparently this one was a weird batch which is intensely more vinegary than normal.

fwiw this is terrible survey design if what you are trying to capture are addictive or counterproductive behaviors. it makes no distinction, for example, between a guy who spends a few hours each week playing madden and a guy who has no other interests other than obsessive gaming

For every boy in your family, aged 2 to 20!

There it is!

Jimmy the House Spider update - after taking five days on a slow, laborious journey across our first floor ceilings, he is not to be found this morning. I wonder where he went.

I am, after all, a trash panda…

Or cold while raining profusely while you’re standing in a deep puddle

If you know me at all, you’ll be shocked to know that we’ve had a huge house spider named Jimmy just hanging out the past three days.

In my latest blog post, I recount how I foolishly thought I could execute three minor Kubernetes version upgrades very quickly. robert.ludwick.us/2026/08/18/f...

Kids in the future will never know how hard it was to pay attention to your spouse before these glasses showed up.

I feel like Beetle Moses just observed me for the past 5 years and then created this comic. It me. I'm it.

In other news, some of my oldest’s friends have been traveling with their family this summer and have occasionally been sending her postcards. I looooove this. People should send postcards more often.

One of my cats is lazily hunting a spider this morning. Poor spider… having a regular morning and suddenly “What the f**k is that thing?! Why does it keep hitting me?! It just keeps following me oh man I’m gonna die…”

One of the more positive outcomes of the insanity in computer component prices is that video game developers will be forced to improve their performance optimizations, and won’t always code to the highest spec possible anymore. www.ign.com/articles/nvi...

If you're interested in some agentic coding I did to Spotlight-style my tabs in Firefox, boy have I got a (short) story for you! robert.ludwick.us/2026/07/23/f...