A Reminder

As a quick reminder, I’ve been running Bitwarden since 2021 in a self-hosted solution.

Historical Tidbit

My Bitwarden installation is currently version 2026.2.1. I had previously attempted to upgrade to 2026.3.x, but ran into an issue with the MSSQL container described here. So I pinned my version to 2026.2.1, per the instructions you find in that thread.

The Power Interruption

Late last night while I was inadvertently drifting to sleep while watching some The Traitors NZ with my wife, the stream halted and I came to. I thought it was a temporary Internet service outage, but still went into the office to check the server rack. To my horror, I found my NAS offline. This means that at least some devices lost power. Which ones, you ask? Well, I knew exactly which ones - all of the devices connected to my APC 2200VA Smart-UPS.

Playing “Video Games”

If you know me, you know that I’ve been playing video games my entire life. So it should come as no surprise that video games holds the key to how I started to create my own music in the first place. In my sophomore year of high school, a friend of mine by the name of Jenner got this “game” for his PS1 - MTV Music Generator. We quickly started to really enjoy playing this “game” on his PS1. I’d go over often and we’d mess around creating all sorts of music and beats. I really started to dig making music on it though. This was my first introduction to producing music.

Unisite Begins

So much for my pledge back in 2021 that I would post more often, ’ey? Ah well. I’ll post when I can!

Anyhow, welcome to my softly-relaunched website, now available at robert.ludwick.us. I have merged websites into one - my previous “Linktree”-like site, and my old GitHub Pages site. They both now live here, merged together into what ought to be just one place to access information about me.

It’s Been Awhile

For the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how some folks do a great job at keeping in touch with others, while most everybody else just simply don’t. I’m in the latter camp. I’ve known for pretty much my entire adult life that I’m piss-poor at keeping in touch with others. I’m not sure how many friendships I’ve had wither on the vine where all they needed was a little bit more of my TLC. It’s not that I don’t want to keep in touch with folks… It’s that I’m busy! I have a lot going on. Heck, it’s not that I don’t care about your anniversary or birthday, I’m just shitty at remembering when it is!

First, We Start At The End

This morning I had the distinct displeasure of taking my 14yr cat, Samantha, to the vet for a “quality of life” discussion. At 10:22am PT, she breathed her last breath; she reached the finish line of a lifelong marathon. She was such a good, sweet cat.

Sam had a pretty healthy life for 13 years. The only concern we ever had for her was her allergy to fish (seriously, that’s a crap allergy for a cat to have, given its ubiquitous use in cat food, etc). Then about a year ago, she had a one-off seizure. She didn’t lose any control of her bodily functions, and at the time we were pretty concerned about it. She never had another one, but I should have realized then that we were starting a countdown clock for her.