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/.
- Diagnosing Fictional Characters
- Portico Zebra on Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill
- 50 Things I Learned in Five Years of NLJ Articles
- Nobody Beats Kirby’s Dream Land at The Wiz
- Crackers With Peanut Butter and Banana Slices
- “Best” NBA Playoff Teams With Losing Records
- Easter Sunday 2025
- Catching 151 Pokémon in Google Search
- Choosing the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards
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/.
- 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
- Things I Learned: Tinder is a Chatbot Dating Service
- Trillion Game Two-Part Season Finale
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 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
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXXVI 〜 Literally yours
- Newsletter Leaf Jouranl CCXXV 〜 Verily vernal
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: @nafnlj@linuxrocks.online
- Pixelfed: @nafnlj@pixelfed.social
- Minds: @nafnlj@minds.com (can also be followed from Mastodon or the like)
- Bluesky: @naferrell.com
- NOSTR: naferrell @ thenewleafjournal.com or Pubkey (71650bd2a9dca5f39fc51b9623c37d735900c4fbfe9f8cb78256d8a99f58522c)
- Hacker News: nafnlj