<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 143rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We had a warm week to begin July here in New York City. But weather aside, I published several new articles. You will find links to and descriptions of our new article along with our usual assortment of links from around the web and other news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
I published four regular articles since mailing Newsletter 142.
Most-Visited NLJ Articles of 1H 2023
Many of the featured pieces on our 24 most-visited articles of the first half of 2023 will comes as little surprise to newslett…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Our 24 most-visited articles of Jan 1-June 30, 2023, with links to each. Note that the ranking comes with the caveat that statistics come from Koko Analytics, which is an entirely local WordPress page counter with no third party scripts or connections. It respects Do Not Track and does not work for users who block JS, so it is (by design) not as robust as commercial solutions. However, I have found that its recording of Google referrers is usually fairly close to what I see in Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster), so I'll count it as close enough for all normal, non-creepy purposes.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[New 'Threads' App Successfully Combines Everything You Hate About Twitter With Everything You Hate About Instagram]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA["After years of research, our engineers have created a revolution in social media technology: a Twitter clone on Instagram that offers the absolute worst of both worlds," said a VR headset-wearing Zuckerberg in an address to dozens of friends in the Metaverse. "At long last, you can read caustic hot takes written by talentless idiots, while still enjoying oppressive censorship and sepia-toned thirst traps from yoga pants models with obnoxious lip injections. You're welcome!"
Babylon Bee article with made up Mark Zuckerberg quote touting the virtues of Threads. This is some of the Bee's finest writing and not at all inaccurate.]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Hypothesis Stream</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[New comment by nafnlj in "Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory"]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On April 12, 2023, the New York Post reported on the NYPD’s rescuing a coyote from the East River. Police departments […]
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Duck and Duckling Rescue Stories From Around the Web
NLJ Brooklyn NYC pigeon rescue story
The Heroic Fallen Trash Can Rescue in Gowanus
Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020
Heights in “The Dangers in My Heart” Anime
Justin & Justina 〜 4th of July Grill Sacrifices to the…
The NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan
Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE…
The L-Shaped Desk on Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In 2021, I wrote a mini article centered on a photo I took of a banana bench outside a home in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I don't think anyone really read it (such is the fate of small photo posts). However, according to my local privacy-friendly analytics tool, Koko Analytics, I suddenly got a large number of referrals from Facebook (unusual, if not unprecedented) all pointing to the banana bench article. I guess someone shared it. However, I don't have Facebook, so the source will forever be a mystery. You too can enjoy the banana bench.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I stopped using Thunderbird for task management (I had been [using it with Radicale-DecSync](https:/...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/24</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/24"/>
<updated>2023-07-07T04:30:04.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I stopped using Thunderbird for task management (I had been using it with Radicale-DecSync), both because I found it cumbersome and I had some sync issues. While I don't think I need a task management app per se, I decided to see how Zim works. I set up a new Planner notebook with the tasks and journal plugins enabled. I am getting the hang of it, but it has a neat, simple syntax out of the box. Thinking about some ways to turn it into a full-fledged planner.
Zim Task List plugin docs: https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Task_List.html
#zimwiki #planner #decsync]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Using FreshRSS to “Like” blog posts via Webmention (2019)]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have a long list, so I'll choose a few personal favorites that may be of interest to HN readers:
https://nicole.express/feed.xml (tinkering with old games and game hardware)
https://shumplations.com/feed (translations of Japanese game developer interviews)
https://www.loc.gov/collections/global-legal-monitor/?fo=rss (summaries of legal news from around the world)
https://reason.com/people/josh-blackman/feed (legal analysis and commentary from Josh Blackman)
https://yukinu.com/feed/atom.xml (charming small web site with links to interesting sites, tech experiments, and looks at old tech)
https://feed.tedium.co (well-researched essays on a variety of topics)
https://blog.sakugabooru.com/feed (detailed essays on the anime industry and production)
htpps://perishablepress.com/feed/atom (personal website of WordPress developer Jeff Starr)
https://ai.mee.nu/feed/atom (daily tech news with strong opinions)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/authors/stephen-dinan (one of the best reporters on immigration law/border issues)
https://liliputing.com/feed (news about mini PCs and mobile devices)
https://worldofmatthew.com/index.xml (essays on digital ownership and random musings)
I would also humbly recommend my own writing project, link in my profile if you're interested
I also recommend looking at Morss.it (https://morss.it/) if there is a site you want to subscribe to without a feed. It generally works very well (RSS Bridge and RSS Hub serve the same purpose if you want to self-host).]]></summary>
<author>
<name>nafnlj</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[New comment by nafnlj in "Ask HN: What are your favorite RSS feeds?"]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You may be interested in Osmosfeed: https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosfeed
It is a static site feed aggregator primarily designed to go with GitHub Pages. I host one to aggregate my own writing on different sites. I think it may fit your use case because your Osmosfeed site itself outputs a single Atom feed. So, for example, if I have an Osmosfeed site that aggregates feeds 1, 2, and 3, the Osmosfeed site has a single feed which will include the three individual feeds. Mine has about 10-12 feeds and it has worked perfectly thus far with no issues. Not sure if it would have problems at higher numbers.]]></summary>
<author>
<name>nafnlj</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[An elegant new orchid is found hiding in plain sight]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[*odds going into 03-04, not 02-03... my guess was based on the perception of the state of affairs in the NBA between 02-03 and 03-04]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In a companion article, I told the story of the 1997 trade which netted the Pistons the #2 pick off a 50-win season in 2003. The trade, which saw the then-Vancouver Grizzlies trade a future, lightly protected first round pick, for a 35-year old Otis Thorpe nearing the end of his career (note the Grizzlies were coming off a 14-68 season) was so bad that one need not even qualify a critique of the trade with "hindsight is 20/20." Had anyone stopped and thought for a moment, all of the sights would have advised not making that trade.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last week, I commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 2003 NBA Draft by addressing a hypothetical -- should the Detroit Pistons, who lucked into the second overall pick despite coming off a 50 win season thanks to a trade from 1997, have drafted Carmelo Anthony? As we know, the Pistons drafted Darko Milicic, who played little in 2.5 seasons with the team, but they won the 2003-04 championship. After considering all the factors, I concluded in a long, stat-filled article, that with perfect hindsight, the Pistons should not have drafted Anthony, but I do offer some alternatives.
(PS: I was proud of myself when I guessed the championship odds ranking going into 2002-03 and found that the betting odds rank on Basketball Reference matched my guess perfectly.)
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It was raining quite a bit in NYC yesterday. I will venture that may have led to some outdoor 4th of July gatherings being imperiled. For those who had a 4th of July event deferred, I present my 2021 (fictional) dialogue on the PURPOSE of July 4 grilling. As one of the three major characters in the dialogue argues -- the purpose is very clearly ritualistic sacrifices to the Founding Fathers ("argues" is the operative word).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I opened your home page. The two guinea pig headlines were enough to convince me I should add this to my RSS feed list and read more.]]></summary>
<author>
<name>nafnlj</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[New comment by nafnlj in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"]]></title>
I started NLJ back in 2020. It is built with WordPress (hosted on Hetzner VPS and managed with Cloudron). I have published more than 800 articles and 350 short-form posts (almost all posts by me, but my friend has published 30something articles). I write about whatever interests me (I tell myself this means there is something for everyone). Common topics include, but are not limited to, tech (digital ownership, open source software, feeds, and my learning Linux), history (usually American or Roman), old books and poems, anime, visual novels (mainly English translations of freeware NScripter/KiriKiri novels), photos from my walks, fictional dialogues, and occasional commentary about life in NYC.
https://memos.emucafe.org/u/2
I am testing out Memos (https://github.com/usememos/memos) for short-form notes and microblog-style posts, but very much a side project next to NLJ. Neat little tool.]]></summary>
<author>
<name>nafnlj</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Eagle, the National Seal, and turkeys]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Coolidge's July 4, 1926 speech is fairly well known by the standards of presidential speeches. Less well known are the remarks he delivered on July 4, 1918, as Lt. Gov of Massachusetts. The subject of the speech was broadly relations between the United States and Japan, and specifically the story of a certain Manjiro Nakahama.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On July 4, 1926, then-President Calvin Coolidge delivered a speech to commemorate the 150th anniversary of American independence. I discuss the speech in detail in my article. Fun additional fact... July 4, 1926 was also Coolidge's 54th birthday.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On July 4, 1923, a Reverend Charles W. Lyons delivered an Independence Day oration titled "The American Mind" (the title was inspired by a Jefferson quote). In a 2021 article, I re-printed the entire oration and offered my own commentary. Having put my thoughts in the article, I submit a fun fact for Mastodon. Lyons, who was a Jesuit priest, is the only man to have served as president of four different American colleges (Gonzaga, St. Joseph's, Boston College, and Georgetown).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 142. You can see the original version here. Our July 1 newsletter […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Briar Desktop now supports MacOS]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I published an article about anime romances with significant height differences between the main romantic pair back in March (see height […]
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The Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Back in 2021, my friend and I had two Independence Day-themed Pokémon in Sword (my friend) and Shield (me). I recorded the battles and posted them to LBRY. This article includes links to the battles and my commentary, including details about my team set-up and EV spreads. Come for the battles and stay for the side commentary.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the edition 142 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We welcome July with today's newsletter, and you can expect some new leaf fireworks (or at least links to some of our 4th of July posts) to go with the usual assortment of links from the week that was, links from around the web, and other news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
I only published three full articles since mailing newsletter 141, with one being our June review. In my defense, however, the combined word count of these articles was above average.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 141 (see original, sent June 24, 2023). Below, you will find the […]
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The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday
The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII
An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I read a Washington Times article about NBA star (and legend) Kevin Durant taking the initiative when some people on Twitter […]
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Reviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter
Against Twitter as a Content Curator
Kevin's "Goodbye Salad Days" Photos at Brooklyn Bridge…
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On June 11, 2023, the New York Post reported that the NYPD has stepped up enforcement against public drinking in 2023. […]
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Social webs of personal websites
The Pigeon in the Puddle
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Today is primary day in New York City. The main attractions are City Council primaries and primaries for District Attorney in […]
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An Unpleasant Voting Odor
The Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…
Call in the Oligarchs to Restore Trust in Media? A Peculiar…
Benjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The strange story of how a poorly thought out 1997 trade by a 14-68 team for a 35-year old power forward led to said team losing the #2 pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.
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Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?
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Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…
Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…
The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations
Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In a 20-year retrospective, I offer my opinion on whether the Detroit Pistons should have drafted Carmelo Anthony with the second pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.
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1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft
ESPN States Tim Duncan was "Born Overseas"
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Playing Through Cancer in Silence: Shawn Respert's NBA Story
Upcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle
Why Would Anyone Believe Michael Jordan?
Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…
Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…
A Winter's Tale - Visual Novel Review]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 141st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Last week was a bit slow in terms of New Leaf Journal developments, but I still have a full slate of topics to share for this newsletter.
Table of contents
Leaves from the week that was
Leaves from around the web
The Old Leaf Journal
Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
News leaf journal
Notable leaf journal
Taking leaf
Leaves from the week that was
I published three new articles and several short posts since mailing Newsletter 140.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Running the original 2005 Yuuki!Novel version of Tegami on top of WINE (and learning about a defunct Japanese visual novel engine in the process)
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Going From ONScripter Visual Novel .exe to Native Linux
Running ONScripter-En in Linux Visual Novel Directory
Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review
MIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 140, the official newsletter of this very New Leaf Journal (see original). […]
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Final thoughts: *Skip to Loafer*]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/21</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/21"/>
<updated>2023-06-23T02:44:00.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Final thoughts: Skip to Loafer
I was not familiar with the underlying Skip to Loafer manga when I saw a preview for the anime series, but the concept looked interesting enough. Having finished the series, it left me a bit nonplussed. The main character is Mitsumi Iwakura, an earnest girl from the countryside who attends high school in Tokyo to follow her dreams of becoming a politician who can revive her hometown. Her friends play leading roles, but the co-main character is Sōsuke Shima, an attractive young man and former child actor who takes a liking to Mitsumi. The entire series is pleasant enough, handled with care (see animation analysis) and I never considered not seeing it through to the end. But while I have high tolerance for slow-paced shows and proverbial "slice of life* pieces, but Skip to Loafer took my tolerance a bit too far. Mitsumi is charming, but not particularly interesting. Souske sees some solid development in the end, but we never get to know him quite well enough to make his past engaging. I could see a second season improving on the first with the initial character intros done, but the first, standing alone, was decent albeit forgettable.
(The opening song and animation is very good, however.)
#SkipToLoafer #anime]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Penultimate episode thoughts: *My Clueless First Friend*]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/20</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/20"/>
<updated>2023-06-23T02:36:32.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Penultimate episode thoughts: My Clueless First Friend
My Clueless First Friend is one of the better anime series of the season. I thought that episode 12, which aired on Sunday, was the final episode. It featured the most relationship development for the 5th grade main character duo and would have been a fine place to leave off. I was surprised at the end of the episode to see that there will be a 13th and final episode with 10 years later in the title. While my assumption is that it will be a dream episode (my understanding is that the manga is ongoing), ending with a legitimate 10-year after look would be an interesting way to conclude an anime about a 5th grade boy extending a hand to a lonely girl and becoming aware of special feelings (the clueless concept is hardly extendable as they grow older). I'm curious to see what the finale is. A good finale would make My Clueless First Friend a viable year-end top six candidate.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The world to reverse contains two distinct visual novels: hallucinate and Flanca. Both are more than a bit experimental and grim.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I revived our Guestbook using WordPress’s native comments in early June 2023. As of June 19, 2023, it has received many […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[On reading and organizing articles (2013)]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I came across an interesting article by Mr. Gregory Ciotti titled How to read and organize online articles (without driving yourself […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[NoPaste is an open source client-side paste tool which can be hosted as a static site. The GitHub repository has instructions for using GitHub pages or dropping the files on a static server. I was interested in trying surge.sh... so my post turned into a how-to and how-I-did for deploying NoPaste to surge.sh.
(It's a neat tool. Were I to use it more seriously... I'd put it somewhere attached to my own domain.)
https://yuechan.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/slightly-disturbing-yet-very-nice/ (totally missed the point of Hallucinate but fair on Flanca)
http://cloverzero00.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-28.html (liked and understood Hallucinate but had some trouble with Flanca)
https://www.misanthropop.com/blog/2017/10/7/october-terror-story-07-the-world-to-reverse (Positive review with extra download link from friend of translator)
https://vndb.org/t3378 (Surprised the ending of Hallucinate caused so much confusion... but still working through Flanca myself)
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ONScripter-EN issue. It seems that old al|together games with MIDI sound do not have working sound w...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/17</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/17"/>
<updated>2023-06-19T02:04:12.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[ONScripter-EN issue. It seems that old al|together games with MIDI sound do not have working sound with my set-up and the 2023 ONScripter-EN builds. They do work with the 2011 version with two exceptions.
Working with 2011: Night of the Forget-Me-Nots, Visions from the Other Side
Working with neither: Wanderers in the Sky (glitchy sound at title, the nothing), The World to Reverse -- Hallucinate (no music on Linux with any version, does work with original Windows .exe and Fluidsynth on top of WINE)
Will test My Black Cat shortly since I recall that one also has a MIDI requirement and then file an issue report on GitHub. Off the top of my head, I think he other al|together games with MIDI issues were all KiriKiri.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Anime News Network: The 12th episode for the television anime of Norio Sakurai’s The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[How do you organize all of the things you read?
My system is actually pretty simple, and it relies on organizing myregular reads, quick digesting and sortingone-off articles, and sometimes doingextensive note-taking with online apps.
I agree that reading is a key part of writing.]]></summary>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Several of the spring 2023 anime season series have picked up in their second halves since I [expres...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/16</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/16"/>
<updated>2023-06-18T04:16:51.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Several of the spring 2023 anime season series have picked up in their second halves since I expressed by concerns at the half-way point that the first half of 2023 was looking bleak. One of the most interesting (and arguably the best) series of the season is Oshi no Ko, which has achieved great popularity. The series focuses on the entertainment industry in Japan, often in a gritty way. It has impressive production values, but the overall product is inconsistent. One thing it has not failed at is hitting the big moments though. The ends of episodes 1, 7, and 9 are three of the most striking moments of anime in 2023 thus far. 9 was particularly impressive. It was not a surprise when we learned that Kana Arima is a legitimately good singer, but the set-up of her music video and the reactions of her group mates was well-done enough to earn some applause. Of course, unlike my previous three anime series of the year, Oregairu S3, SSSS.Dynazenon, and Teasting Master Takagi-san S3, Oshi no Ko has not put together an entire episode up to the standard of its best scenes. But it is making me think about how much a single scene can carry an episode or how a series of stand-out scenes can define a series. This idea needs more work. It will turn into an article at some point.
#OshiNoKo #anime #anime2023]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Cloudflare considered harmful]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Where such denial-of-service conditions occur, Cloudflare provides a bizarre
“one more step” page inviting the visitor to complete a reCAPTCHA to access the
site. Cloudflare claims that this is based on IP reputation, which constitutes
a fallacious equivocation of IPs and users which has been found to be highly
detrimental to Tor users in terms of the browseability of the web.
This is a good critique of Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. They are especially annoying when using a VPN (I use Mullvad) or unusual browser configurations. I wrote about how the Wayback Machine provides a good end-around the CAPTCHA deluge for pages which have been captured.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 140th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. Today’s edition comes a bit late because I was tired last night (I am definitely not writing this on Saturday afternoon). But it will be a full newsletter all the same, packed to the brim with the sort of content one would expect to find in a Newsletter Leaf Journal composed by New Leaf Journal editor Nicholas A. Ferrell on his waterproof keyboard.
Table of contents
Leaves from the week that was
Leaves from around the web
The Old Leaf Journal
Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
News leaf journal
Notable leaf journal
Taking leaf
Leaves from the week that was
I published four regular articles since mailing newsletter 139. I also pu…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I received a sort of real response from Bing Webmaster support after sending my latest inquiry (we have to be close to 10 now). Automated, yes, but a support number and inviting me to respond to the thread if I have updates. This is good because I'm coming close to blocking Bingbot in robots.txt. Just know I'm doing all of this out of the goodness of my heart for the DuckDuckGo/Ecosia/Qwant crowd out there.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My Nintendo Switch Pro Controller died. My favorite game controller ever is the Dreamcast, so I decided to be creative and get a GuilKit KingKong 2 Pro with a Hall Effect joystick to rekindle the magic. It came in very nice packaging and the joystick feels nice. Will test it... soon.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I like peanut butter sandwiches on cinnamon raisin bread. I leave unsalted peanuts and raisins. I do not have cinnamon raisin […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[For those who are interested, it can be downloaded and played for free from the official source. It is a bit finicky to run. It requires a Japanese language environment. It also needs Japanese fonts or things won't display correctly (the default fonts I installed from the AUR did not work well here). I ran it on top of WINE without any problems after the initial configuration. Unlike most of the al|together translations, there is no native Linux version (this one was written in KiriKiri instead of ONScripter-EN).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed a 2006 translation of a 2004 Japanese freeware visual novel called Collage last week. This one earns my clear recommendation. It is a story covering a couple of weeks in modern Japan told from the perspective of three adults (probably in the age 28-30 range). Over the course of the story, we see how the lives of the characters are more connected than they seem. The translation reads very well and the story is clever. I also appreciated the game's visual flair and soundtrack, both of which reminded me a bit of Persona 3.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I noticed that crawlers sometimes look for an ads.txt file on The New Leaf Journal. I felt bad about them finding our 404 page instead of the information they were seeking. Not wanting to leave their bot hearts unfulfilled, I remedied the issue.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Jokic joins Antetokounmpo, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players born overseas to take home the Finals award.
Tim Duncan was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, so I am not sure how "overseas" is being defined here.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Using an ATOM feed and feed reader to stay abreast of the latest updates to a WordPress spam comment blacklist without using a plugin.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I just had an issue printing from my Brother printer (wi-fi connection) from my main workstation running EndeavourOS. I resolved the issue cleanly with the EndeavourOS Wiki and then detailed the steps with a link to the relevant section in my new Memos instance.
https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11
#endeavouros #arch #printers]]></summary>
<author>
<name>N.A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I was unable to print using my Brother printer from my EndeavourOS workstation. I resolved the issue...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11"/>
<updated>2023-06-12T17:39:28.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was unable to print using my Brother printer from my EndeavourOS workstation. I resolved the issue by following these steps on the EndeavourOS Wiki:
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I used @jeremy 's Nostr Verify plugin for WordPress to verify my new Nostr profile, and explained the process in a short article. I was impressed with how quickly everything fell into place. This is well worth a look if you run a self-hosted WordPress site.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 139. After I was late in making my Monday syndication target for […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Enter difference between yay and dnf]]></title>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[My current visual novel review project, *The Letter*, is the 2008 translation of a 2007 Japanese vis...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/10</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/10"/>
<updated>2023-06-12T03:55:55.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My current visual novel review project, The Letter, is the 2008 translation of a 2007 Japanese visual novel called Tegami. Like most of the al|together translation projects visual novels, Tegami was written in NScripter. However, the 2007 release was its second release. The first version was created with Yuuki! Novel. I looked up Yuuki! Novel and found a couple of interesting resources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160208042342/http://freett.com/yuukiex/yuukinovel.html (Last capture of official website, download links still work)
I downloaded the latest release of Yuuki! Novel (latest being from 2005) and an English-language translation of some of its docs. File away for a future project.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I previously noted that I could not start my local Radicale-DecSync server and that switching from t...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/8</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/8"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T20:02:44.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I previously noted that I could not start my local Radicale-DecSync server and that switching from the AUR package to the PyPi package resolved the issue.
However, I ran into the following error today when I tried to launch the local server:
[2023-06-11 15:56:14 -0400] [2661] [CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: Failed to load storage module 'radicale_storage_decsync': libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Solution from AUR libdecsync package: Install libxcrypt-compat
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wanted to add pingback support to WordPress pages so I could enable Webmentions on my new Guestbook. After a bit of searching, I extrapolated the correct functions.php snippet from a guide for a different point and added the functionality to pages without breaking my site.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I started manually maintaining a list of stopwords for WordPress comments after opening our Guestboo...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/7</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/7"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T16:10:14.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I started manually maintaining a list of stopwords for WordPress comments after opening our Guestbook. I figured that I could handle it manually instead of using a plugin. The approach was showing some results after two days, but it occurred to me that I could find a bigger stopword list.
I found this big one on GitHub and copied it into my install. The repo notes that there are plugins for keeping it up-to-date, but I thought of a better idea. After some clicking around, I found the atom feed for updates to the blocklist text file. I added it to mfeed, a Firefox extension I use to keep track of feeds for repo and software updates. Now I will not only be able to keep my stopwords list up to date, but I also have a NLJ topic on keeping the list up to date without a plugin.
#wordpress #feeds #newleafjournal]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thoughts on anime episodes I watched yesterday:]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/6</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/6"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T16:06:42.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html">< of [*The New Leaf Journal*](...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/3</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/3"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T03:25:32.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This is N.A. Ferrell of The New Leaf Journal. I was interested in testing Memos as a note-taking microblog. I thought about using a subdomain of The New Leaf Journal, but I decided to start fresh under a different, very official-sounding banner.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 139th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While I did not publish many articles in the last week, one of the articles that I did publish is quite long. Moreover, this week saw the return of The New Leaf Journal Guestbook, albeit in a new form. Without further ado, let us cover the latest news, notes, and articles from around the web.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 138 (see original). I am supposed to syndicate our Saturday newsletters on […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[But in full disclosure, Twitter did once come through in a big way for me. I am writing a long series of articles (now up to 21 reviews!) on old freeware Japanese visual novels that were translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals. A reader saw the series and sent a DM about trying to track down the novels. I did not see the DM for about 10 months. However, when I did, I worked with the sender (who is collecting them in a public MEGA Drive) on a couple of games and the interactions led me to track down the Japanese version of Manatsu no Kagerou, which is required for playingg the al|together translation since the English version is a patch. I found it in ONE older torrent... all of the original download links were dead.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was reliably informed yesterday that it had been three years since I made a Twitter account for The New Leaf Journal. In those three years, our account has picked up 43 followers (or 40 if we leave out one of my friends and my NLJ colleague) and my most shared post was in 2020. All of the successes I had on Twitter were from a few of my articles making Hacker News page one, all of which spread on Twitter without my doing anything. As such, I would have done about as well on Twitter had I never made an account. Let no one say, however, that I did not predict this outcome back in 2020.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bing has blocked The New Leaf Journal from appearing in web search results since January (we were de-indexed in March). I created a GitHub repository to collect stories and resources about similar cases to help others with strange Bing problems.
(Note: For Microsoft reasons, I think this is one case were GitHub is the perfect host for this project.)
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I think I quipped on the NLJ a while back that I would like to see a remaster of Persona 3. I didn't think there would be one. The trailer looks slick, but no evidence of change other than much better graphics. I think P3 has the best underlying story and aesthetic of the modern Personas, but FES is weaker than 4 Golden and 5 overall (4 Golden is my favorite on account of writing and characters). I'll reflect on this and think about what I'd like to see in a full 3 remake.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Collage is the official 2006 English language translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel of the same year. The original […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wrote a review of an open source Android launcher called Keikai Launcher a few days ago. On its own, Keikai is a simple bare-bones launcher. I would not use it as a primary launcher (I use TinyBit and Kiss would be my second choice), but it functions nicely for a second proposed use case -- an alternative app drawer. When I need to survey my apps on my LineageOS phone, Keikai is a much more elegant solution than navigating to settings. Moreover, I could see it being very useful on locked down Android-derived devices which do not let the user change his or her default launcher, such as the Kindle Fire line. Keikai is available on GitHub and F-Droid.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thanks to the Nostr Verify plugin for WordPress, you can find NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell on Nostr at nafnlj@thenewleafjournal.com. I explain how it works, step-by-step.
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