I'm just enough of a narcissist to believe that people deserve to hear the things I have to say, so discoverability is very important to me. To that end, I've wanted to have some kind of search function on my site to make it easier to find older posts. Around two months ago, I added a Google Programmable Search Engine as a temporary measure, but I always had my eye on PageFind in the long term. Today, I finally took the time to implement the PageFind solution into the site.

Jacen's personal website

I've been pretty vocal about my opinion on driving standards in NASCAR over the past five years or so. Races tend to devolve into guys running over each other as they go on, and that's only exacerbated at short tracks, where moving people out of your way is the only way to pass. Still, sometimes short tracks manage to put on a show. For example, the finish to the 2021 Food City 300, which I consider to be one of the greatest finishes I've ever watched. So, let's go back in time to recap if the race itself was as good as the finish.

For a long time, Java Edition has used obfuscation (hiding parts of the code) – a common practice in the gaming industry. Now we’re changing how we ship Minecraft: Java Edition to remove obfuscation completely. Find out more in this article!

Despite all the drama about the NASCAR playoff format, the Cup Series championship 4 was actually a pretty solid group. There's a solid argument to be made that each of them deserves a championship this season. However, we can only have one champion, so let's recap the 2025 championship race and all the drama within.

NASCAR's current playoff format has been a target of ire among fans basically since its inception. These frustrations have only gotten more intense with how the 2025 Xfinity Series championship finished. The declarations of how the system is broken or doesn't work have never been louder. The problem with that way of thinking is that the system actually works perfectly. Or, rather, whether the system works depends on what exactly you're trying to accomplish.

I've mentioned before my love of handheld computers. It's something of a problem for me. So, when I saw the Anbernic RG Slide come across my news feed, I felt like I needed to give it a test drive. Is this PSP Go lookalike worth the money, or is it doomed to share the fate of its doppelganger?

Setting up an Active Directory test lab

The best Switch-era Pokémon game | Pokémon Legends Z-A Day 6

The best Switch-era Pokémon game | Pokémon Legends Z-A Day 5

The best Switch-era Pokémon game | Pokémon Legends Z-A Day 4

Out of sidequests, so I guess I have to advance the story | Pokémon Legends Z-A Day 3

Learning to hate the battle system less | Pokémon Legends Z-A Day 2

Unscheduled ZA stream

One problem with my TTY-only setup is that I don't have a way to link it into my blog workflow. That means that chronicling my adventures from within the TTY isn't possible yet. Today, I'm going to fix that by blatantly cheating.

Doing my free pulls, then more practice| Project Sekai

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