Posted on: November 28, 2025, 3:53 am

I’ve never been a huge AMD fan because of their driver issues, and after switching to a full AMD gaming and workstation setup, I feel like I should have trusted that instinct. When I first built the PC everything ran perfectly, but the Adrenalin drivers turned out to be a constant source of problems, right-click bugs, random driver crashes, failures after sleep mode, and other Windows-related glitches. These aren’t small annoyances either, they disrupt daily use.

Coming from years of Intel and NVIDIA builds, I can honestly say those platforms just work. I never dealt with this level of instability.

What makes it worse is that I rely on my PC for work as much as gaming, so stability is critical. For now, I’ve rolled back about six months of driver updates just to get things usable again, but I still don’t know if the sleep-mode crash is truly fixed. Time will tell.

Consider this a bit of advice, AMD graphics hardware has potential, but their drivers still need significant improvement.

Posted on: September 8, 2025, 3:23 am

My daughter Emma is in her first year of AAU girls basketball in Killeen. She is having a great experience and I am proud to see how much she is growing.

Emma trains at a place called Skyline Gym. The gym is part of a church complex, but it is in its own separate building and is treated completely separate from the church itself. This is not a religious program and anyone can join, no matter what. Her coach, Coach Bobby, works hard to help the kids get better at basketball and believe in themselves.

Before training at Skyline, Emma also worked with coaches from Killeen Parks and Recreation and played on an AAU team called Centx Next Level. That program was great, but they only train during the active AAU season, which lasts about 2 to 3 months. At Skyline, training continues year-round, and that has made a big difference in her development.

One thing I have noticed is that middle school girls basketball does not get much attention. A lot of girls do not show up to play, and so not many people come to watch. That is sad, because these girls are strong and talented. I hope more girls join and more people come support them.

Basketball is not just about playing a sport. It helps kids break through mental walls, gain confidence, and stay balanced. Emma has become stronger, not just on the court, but in her mind too.

If you are in the Killeen area and want to try AAU basketball, Skyline Gym offers training for boys and girls in elementary, middle school, and high school. You do not have to be on a team already. You can come learn, practice, and improve.

Let’s help grow middle school girls basketball in Killeen. These kids are working hard, and they deserve our support.

Posted on: April 22, 2025, 7:25 pm

Fynd turns 1 year old tomorrow! It has been a fun and rewarding experience developing the code and watching the search engine come to life. I think it is pretty cool that it has become a sort of living, growing entity that does not require constant human input to keep running.

The core code is now complete, so over the last few months, and moving forward, development has shifted more toward improving the user interface, along with occasional tweaks to the crawlers and other backend components as needed.

Eventually, I would like to add image and news search features, which honestly seem pretty straightforward at this point. But before that, I will be focusing more on refining the Fynd UI.

Fynd has about 65 million pages indexed, and it continues to grow every second. I am very happy with the search results for most queries. While the index sounds large, it is still relatively small, and as it grows, the quality of the results keeps improving.

Looking ahead, my hope is that others will find Fynd as useful as I do for general internet searching and research, and appreciate having an alternative to mainstream search engines.

Posted on: March 15, 2025, 4:57 am

Fynd has hit 50 million pages indexed, and the results are really shaping up nicely. The more pages indexed, the better the matches get. I foresee the sweet spot being around 200-250 million pages for optimal search quality.

Beyond that, I’m continuing to refine the UI, fine-tune the crawlers, and tackle spam pages to keep everything clean and relevant. Progress is steady, and things are going nicely.

Give it a try - Fynd

Posted on: December 7, 2024, 5:10 am

I put in a lot of work today to establish the foundation of Hive. My goal is to make it super easy for anyone to use, with features like detecting and installing necessary server software. The aim is for almost anyone to install it on a VPS or dedicated server and have a fully functional server for hosting websites, email, and databases. I believe I successfully laid that foundation today and also created the basic visual layout for Hive.



Update (12/17/2024): Hive now has its own domain name, and the website is currently under development. You can check it out at: hivepanel.com.