Avoiding Feed Reader Overrun
RSS? (Evan Sheehan) RSS can even become a burden. A feed reader is another inbox, and like all inboxes you have very little control over how much stuff gets put in there. The more feeds to which you...
View Article[Article] I’m now friends with Nicholas A. Ferrell.
I’m now friends with Nicholas A. Ferrell. Source
View ArticleFollow Minds Social From WordPress
If you have a WordPress site, you can subscribe to yourself on Minds and Minds will recognize your WordPress account as a follower. In order to this, you need the ActivityPub and Friends plugins, both...
View ArticleAn Email to “Info”
I maintain two emails over at The New Leaf Journal. My site administrator email is info [at] newleafjournal. It largely exists to receive spam emails. A certain gentleman purportedly from Qatar Energy...
View ArticleUnpausing Virtual Credit Cards
I use privacy.com to generate virtual credit cards (one of my few closed source “apps”). I usually pause cards that I am not using at the moment but will probably use again in the future. Fun fact: If...
View ArticleThe Last Bluesky Invites
I decided to request an invite to Bluesky a couple of weeks ago when I saw that it allowed for using one’s own domain as a handle and had RSS support. I finally received my invite on February 4. I made...
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Brooklyn Bridge Clear of Vendors
Alien Street Vendors and Unauthorized Employment by Nicholas A. Ferrell The Gothamist published an article on the push to ban street vendors from the magisterial Brooklyn Bridge. I am 100% in support...
View ArticleWhat’s an Anime You Fell Asleep To?
Writing Prompt: What’s an anime that you’ve fallen asleep to? by Yomu (Umai Yomu Anime Blog) Let’s get another one of these prompts going, and this one will be quite short! Yomu of the Umai Yomu Anime...
View ArticleBasketball Reference Adds Awards to Main Player Tables
I have not followed the NBA closely since 2016. However, I am working on a few article projects for The New Leaf Journal focusing on interesting NBA points, primarily from when I followed the league...
View ArticleDeleting Yahoo Account
I had an old Yahoo email account (it was @ymail, I thought that was neat). I think I made the account in 2008 or 2009. Back when I did not know any better, I primarily used Gmail, MSN, and Yahoo Mail,...
View ArticleApple Hat Take on Sudo for Windows
Introducing Sudo for Windows! by Jordi Adoumie (devblogs.microsoft.com) Introducing Sudo for Windows We’re excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build...
View ArticleContributing to Steam-Linux Trends
Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5% by Michael Larabel (phoronix.com) The Steam on Linux marketshare per Valve's official survey put it at 1.97% for...
View ArticleMaking Use of WordPress.com
This site and The New Leaf Journal are self-hosted WordPress sites. I have never really used WordPress.com. However, I made a WordPress.com account around the time I started The New Leaf Journal in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Publisher Sunset Nostalgia
I read that Microsoft is discontinuing Microsoft Publisher in October 2026 (see report). This made me feel nostalgic in the same way that seeing a Ti-89 Titanium graphing calculator does. I worked on...
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Fixing Computer With Punch
I built my current desktop computer back in August 2020. One of the benefits of building your own computer is that you can easily fix it when you have a hardware issue. For example, one of the top fans...
View Article2024 Winter Anime Mid-Season Impressions
I caught up on all the winter series I decided to follow as simulcasts. Below are my (mostly) one-sentence impressions thus far. I publish a year-end top six anime series list annually over at The New...
View ArticleGitHub User Takes Credit for Nintedo’s Yuzu Suit
Nintendo is sued the developers of the free and open source Yuzu emulator for Nintendo Switch games and succeeded in securing an agreement wherein both open source projects were shut down. I take no...
View ArticleLinkedin’s New AI “Features”
I have never used Linkedin. I have also never been tempted to use Linkedin. But what if Linkedin added some new feature to make me sign up? I quote from a report by Mr. Mauricio B. Holguin on...
View Article[Reply] Introducing Pokémon Red Novel Project
Introducing Pokémon Red Novel Project by Nicholas A. Ferrell (thenewleafjournal.com) I introduce a project to turn a new play-through of Pokémon Red into a serialized novel and quasi-strategy guide...
View ArticleLearning that Bloomingdale’s is Part of Macy’s
Back in 2021, I wrote about walking around Manhattan with a friend to see cow statues. One of the cow statues was in Bloomingdale’s. In the post I explained that I had previously not known anything...
View ArticleHiDive Redesign
I read a news report that HiDive, an anime streaming service, re-designed its website. I have been an HiDive subscriber for a few years (two of my top three series of 2023 and my 2022 anime series of...
View ArticleMy Take on Blogging and AI
Blogging and AI: A Personal Take by Greg Morris (Greg Morris) I've been mulling over this clash between AI and the content it's trained on for some time now. As a frequent user of AI and a regular...
View ArticleBokuYaba to Initial D
I watched the second season of The Dangers in My Heart (“BokuYaba”) as a simulcast after watching and reviewing the first season. While I do not want to fully spoil my upcoming New Leaf Journal review...
View ArticleSega Nomad Memories
Review: IPS 16Bit Pocket MD HD - A Genesis / Mega Drive Handheld That Plays Carts by Damien McFerran (Time Extension) Back in 1995, Sega released the Nomad, a portable Genesis / Mega Drive which, for...
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