I am the administrator and editor of two WordPress-powered websites. I post long-form articles on The New Leaf Journal and short-form posts on The Emu Café Social. I write about thinks I am interested in, which includes, but is not limited to: Anime, Brooklyn, Current Events, History, Linux, Open Source Software, Reading, Sports, Video Games, Visual Noevls, Walking, Writing, and many other topics. I mainly use GitHub to follow projects and repositories that interest me.
Feed: https//thenewleafjournal.com/feed/ for the full site RSS feed (or /author/naferrell/feed/ for mine). Add atom/ or json/ after /feed/ if you prefer those formats. For any twtxt users out there, you can follow the full site at /feed/twtxt/.
- Catching 151 Pokémon in Google Search
- Choosing the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards
- A Skypark Bridge to Sell You
- Amazon “Cargo Bikes” in Brooklyn
- March 2025 at The New Leaf Journal
- Nivea Water Gel Sunscreen Refills in OXO Lotion Bottle
- Honey Lemon Soda Anime Hair Color Analysis
- Honey Lemon Soda – Anime Review
- “Like Literally Like” – Unclear Thinking and Speaking
Feed: https//social.emucafe.org/feed/ for the full site RSS feed (or /author/naferrell/feed/ for mine). Add atom/ or json/ after /feed/ if you prefer those formats. For any twtxt users out there, you can follow the full site at /feed/twtxt/.
- Long Delays Between Anime Seasons
- Things I Learned: Chinese Plastic Christmas Tree Manufacturers in Trouble
- Things I Learned: Oldest Golfer to Shoot Under Par in Masters Round
- Fred Couples Shoots 71 in First Round of Masters
- Installing Tinker WriterDeck OS On Old ASUS Netbook
- Things I Learned: Tinder is a Chatbot Dating Service
- Trillion Game Two-Part Season Finale
- Things I Learned: 13 U.S. States Ban Ranked-Choice Voting
- My Haqqani Bounty Payment Hangs By a Thread
I created a "social" profile on The Emu Café Social. It has a micropost activity stream which is separate from the main part of the site. You can see it here. It has an ATOM feed if you want to add it to your reader.
Feed: https://buttondown.com/newsletterleafjournal/rss (note this is a newsletter, so you can also sign up by email.
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXVIII 〜 Crunchy cargo refill
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXVII 〜 Honey Lemon SRS
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXVI 〜 Literally yours
- Newsletter Leaf Jouranl CCXXV 〜 Verily vernal
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXIV 〜 Ageless donut
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXIII 〜 Lose an hour, gain a newsletter
Both The New Leaf Journal and The Emu Café Social support ActivityPub. I have successfully followed myself from Mastodon and Pixelfed. You can follow from:
- @ newleafjournal @ thenewleafjournal.com (remove spaces, only full site profile)
- @ naferrell @ social.emucafe.org (my profile) and/or @ cafe @ social.emucafe.org (full site, albeit it is just me at the moment) (remove spaces)
- @ buttondown.com.newsletterleafjournal @ rss-parrot.net (if you want our new newsletter posts to show up in Mastodon or the like) (remove spaces)
- X: @newleafjournal
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
- Pixelfed: @[email protected]
- Minds: @[email protected] (can also be followed from Mastodon or the like)
- Bluesky: @naferrell.com
- NOSTR: naferrell @ thenewleafjournal.com or Pubkey (71650bd2a9dca5f39fc51b9623c37d735900c4fbfe9f8cb78256d8a99f58522c)
- Hacker News: nafnlj