Blog Posts
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Over-the-air Motorized TV Antenna unnecessary

I almost built an ESP32 antenna rotator for Spurs OTA games, then realized all major local stations come from about the same direction.

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7 Habits for Mental Discipline & Self-Control

A practical checklist for self-control: sugar reset, hydration, social feed curation, daily meditation, cold-finish showers, a weekly 3-hour disappear block, and nightly reflection.

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Modernizing My ASUS U46E i7

Reviving an old ASUS U46E with an SSD, AC 7265 5 GHz Wi-Fi, Fedora upgrades, and external-display troubleshooting.

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Git + LFS Stuck File Quick Fix

A quick runbook for fixing Git LFS pull failures caused by remote and endpoint mismatches.

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Windows tmp on startup

A tiny PowerShell startup script that clears C:\tmp so Windows behaves more like Linux /tmp.

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Steam on Linux

Fix White Screen of Death launching Steam games on Fedora 43. Also fixes laggy Big Picture Mode.

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Aceso

Aceso: Harnessing Technology to Support Children's Mental Health. Senior design project combining engineering, mental health awareness, and innovation.

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CentOS_PHP_7-8

RHEL (e.g. CentOS) guide to upgrading PHP from 7 to 8

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SVN2GIT

Convert SVN repo to Git

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Hybrid-Hybrid Kubernetes Cluster

Deploying spacecraft web applications in a hybrid Kubernetes cluster spanning on-premises servers, a high-performance computing cluster, and AWS developed at Southwest Research Institute.

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FIRST Robotics

Former FTC and FRC Student; now mentor BroncBotz 3481, FTC 4008/6976/4602, and TMI FTC 6221.

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DIY Circuits

A personal project to create printed circuit boards (PCBs) at home, born out of necessity during COVID-19 when access to the UT Austin Makerspace was restricted.

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Intelligent Quads

Co-founded Intelligent Quads (IQ), a modular and customizable drone platform startup spun off from Texas Aerial Robotics, enabling companies and researchers to build innovative drone applications.

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Car Diagnostics Logger

A Raspberry Pi-based OBD-II car diagnostics monitor and logger, built for privacy-oriented collection of vehicle metrics like RPM, temperatures, tire pressures, and engine codes.

In the Media
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TMI-2026

Guest talk at Texas Military Institute: "Code is the easy part." Building an engineering path after graduation.

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CakeFest-2025

Talk on practical CakePHP power-ups: logging, query performance, and WebAssembly-based workflows.

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CakeFest-2024

Production-minded CakePHP talk focused on scalable delivery, operations, and progressive modernization.

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CakeFest-2023

Conference talk on containerization. Covers Queueing methods for long-running processes and working with parts in different programming languages. YouTube video available.

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Daily Texan (UT Robotics)

Daily Texan coverage of the Anna Hiss Gym renovation for robotics programs, including an interview with me.