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/.
- Failing to Try Airport Illy Coffee Vending Machine
- Learning About William P. Hobby at Houston Hobby Airport
- The Bad Joke of NYC Ranked Choice Voting
- Reviewing ANeko Reborn For Android
- Sharing Handwritten Review of the Els Pet “Spaceship”
- NYC Open Streets Traffic Cone Shortage
- Foggy Manhattan Skyline (May 4, 2025)
- Williamsburg Christmas Tree in May 2025
- BLOB DYLAN Seen in Williamsburg (May 2025)
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/.
- “killer for hire” Leaves Two Spam Comments
- Waiting For a G3 Macintosh in 1998
- Things I Learned: LTK
- Woodpecker in Brooklyn
- 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
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 CCXXXII 〜 Return of the BLOB
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXXI 〜 Broomletter
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXX 〜 Nobody beats the NLJ
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXIV 〜 Gotta read 'em all
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXVIII 〜 Crunchy cargo refill
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXVII 〜 Honey Lemon SRS
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