"description":"You can find many free things left outside in Brooklyn, New York. This includes free furniture, free books, and, apparently, free gallons of Poland Spring water.",
"description":"Episode 5 of the A Sign of Affection anime adaptation provided definitive proof that one of the two main characters, Itsuomi Nagi, has been dying his hair. I examine the evidence.",
"description":"Examining overwhelming circumstantial evidence of Yuki Itose's use of hair dye in the first two episodes of the A Sign of Affection anime adaptation.",
"description":"January was highlighted by a surprise newsletter share and Hacker News page 1 appearance early in the month, but we also published 17 new articles on many interesting topics.",
"description":"I rank the top 10 visual novel translations to emerge from the 31 pieces translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals.",
"description":"I recently learned about some shopping app called Temu. I contemplated my obliviousness and determined that I owe my lack of knowledge to good internet usage.",
"description":"I offer my opinion on whether Google's promoting new AI tools with Chrome for drafting forum posts and reviews will contribute to making the internet a better place.",
"description":"WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg published an interesting “birthday post” asking people to create blogs for his birthday. The idea is that […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nMatt Damon's Brooklyn Heights Crane Game\nAround the Web 〜 Alternative Software and Services Resources\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nNew Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal…\n100 Articles and Counting at The New Leaf Journal\nSearching for the \"Libertarian Moment\"",
"description":"From Phoronix: “The Steam on Linux marketshare per Valve’s official survey put it at 1.97% for December after hitting 1.91% in November — continuing a slow upward trajectory seen in recent months thanks to the ongoing success of the Linux-powered SteamOS / Steam Deck … In turn the CPU results for AMD continue to climb […]",
"description":"Puts on Apple Hat Turns on Apple Hat Opens article about Microsoft adding sudo to Windows “Looks like Microsoft is ripping off Apple again” Starts video of Steve Jobs introducing some Apple product in 2005 (For the record, I almost use Arch by the way. Posted from my desktop PC running EndeavourOS.)",
"description":"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, but Yahoo was always third on the priority list. I do not think I […]",
"description":"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 closely (1997-2016). See, for example, my pair of articles from last year on the Detroit Pistons’ 2003 NBA Draft and […]",
"description":"Yomu of the Umai Yomu Anime Blog posted a new writing prompt: “What’s an anime that you’ve fallen asleep to?” Let us see Yomu’s response: Strangely enough, I’ve never fallen asleep to an anime, even when including re-watching series where I’d already have an idea of what was going to happen and there was less […]",
"description":"I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time since New York City evicted all of the vendors and panhandlers a few weeks ago. I fully supported clearing the Bridge for pedestrians just like I previously supported removing the bike lane from the walkway. However, I was skeptical that New York City would follow […]",
"description":"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 my account, set it up with my domain, and added my Bluesky RSS feed […]",
"description":"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 you set up a card for a scheduled payment but forget to unpause the card, the payment […]",
"description":"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 sent me the following email: Dearest info, I am [REDACTED], Manager of Finance and Accounts, at Qatar Energy. I have $100m for Investment. […]",
"description":"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 available in the regular WordPress plugin repos https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends/ After both are configured, go into your Friends admin menu and […]",
"description":"I came across an interesting blog post by Evan Sheeran noting that it is easy for to become overwhelmed by new feed articles using an RSS/ATOM Feed Reader. He stated that “[t]he more feeds to which you subscribe, or the more prolific some of the authors are, the more of a commitment opening your feed […]",
"description":"I use side tabs with my Firefox set up. I briefly switched from Tree Style Tab to Sidebery when Tree Style Tab had an update issue. I was impressed with Sidebery and it comes with more power features than Tree Style Tab out of the box (It also does a better job of clearly showing […]",
"description":"I inadvertently discovered that WordPress interprets something immediately followed by a “#” in a post as a new tag. Who knew? I learned this when I was indicating numbered rankings in a new article. I decided to forego the “#”.",
"description":"I wrote a post a few days ago about how my Minds posts are now visible from my Mastodon instance. I noted one issue, however. Minds has a praiseworthy set up where users can add hashtags separate from the post. I noted that I liked the set up last year on The New Leaf Journal, […]",
"description":"I came across a good post with links to bloggers who share links on Jeremy Keith’s website, adactio.com. I added the adactio links feed along with a few of the link feeds noted in the post to the Links category of my personal feed collection. I may start sharing a few links each day here […]",
"description":"I use Xfce as the desktop environment on my workstation. I have read some complaints that Xfce is dated compared to GNOME, KDE Plasma, and other newer and shinier desktop environments, but I disagree. Xfce looks slick with a good theme (the Linux distribution I use, EndeavourOS, comes with a nice Xfce spin out of […]",
"description":"I have a social media account on Minds. Minds added ActivityPub support not too long ago. I had been able to follow my Minds account from Mastodon and follow my Mastodon account from Minds. However, posts were not showing up in either case. Today, I was surprised to discover my most recent Minds post in […]",
"description":"Yomu at the Umai Yomu Anime Blog asked readers to answer the following question: What anime did you start the new year with? The first anime I watched in 2024 was actually a 2023 series: BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! Two factors came together to make that 2023 musical melodrama my first anime of the new […]",
"description":"I had been using Tree Style Tab for side-tabs on Firefox along with a userChrome.css file to remove the top bar. I was surprised to find when I opened Firefox this morning that Tree Style Tabs was not working. Instead of checking its GitHub repository, where I would have found the issue, I tried to […]",
"description":"I have been busy with New Leaf Journal and law work as of late, but I return to The Emu Café Social with a fun New Leaf Journal update. As of the afternoon of January 29, 2023, we have more Google referrals at The New Leaf Journal than Hacker News referrals despite our fairly high […]",
"description":"Over at The New Leaf Journal, my January 5, 2024 article, which was about drug-enhanced professional cycling results, became the sixth New Leaf Journal article (going back to February 2021) to appear on Hacker News page 1 (only after a stop in The Browser newsletter). It reached as high as 11th on HN and was […]",
"description":"Pro-Hamas protesters spent January 15, 2024 loudly protesting outside of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, yelling that the cancer hospital is complicit in the so-called “genocide” in Gaza, or even “supporting” it. Far be it from me to offer any sort of advice to supporters of a foreign terrorist organization, but in light […]",
"description":"I did not get around to publishing a review of episode 2 of season 2 of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun after publishing a brief review of the first episode. The second episode had a dramatic tonal shift — segueing from the social game shenanigans that began in the first episode to bullying. I had some issues […]",
"description":"I came across a blog post titled Just Blog by Frank Meeuwsen. This post alerted me to an interesting “birthday” project by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Mr. Mulenwig asked for people to blog for his birthday and link to his post. Ideally, the links should show up as pingbacks on his article. His post said […]",
"description":"Welcome to the 173rd 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 Logitech K310 keyboard of the editor and administrator of both The New Leaf Journal and its new sister site, The Emu Café Social, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I have plenty of news to share this week, but I am also off to a late start (it is 1:49 PM on Saturday, February 10, as I write this) and it is nice weather out -- so I am going to try to be efficient in putting this newsletter together.\nLet us jump into the content.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published four new New Leaf Journal articles since mailing Newsletter 172.\nComparing my al|together VN rank to VNDB (NAF, 2/3) \nAfte…",
"description":"Welcome to the 172nd 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 Logitech K310 keyboard of the administrator and editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Last week saw the publication of several big ticket articles that have been in the works for a while, so let's get to our weekly review and other news and notes, including 21 links from around the web.\nLeaves from the week that was\nLet's review our new articles...\nal|together Visual Novel Ranking (20-11)\nFollowing up my (subjective) ranking of the bottom-11 al|together novels... \nMissing Temu Ads Through Good Internet Usage\nI decided that my ignorance of an internet advertising…",
"description":"Welcome to the 171st 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. Speaking of my keyboard...\nLeaves from the week that was\nMy Logitech Washable Wired Keyboard K310\nAfter noting my waterproof keyboard in every newsletter for more than three years, it finally received a full New Leaf Journal article. \n\"Survive and Advance\" Visual Novel Choices\nI have used the term \"survive and advance\" to describe certain visual novel choice structures. In this article, I define my pet visual novel description. \nal|together Visual Novel Rank Intro\nIntroducing my long-advertised final ranking…",
"description":"Welcome to the 170th 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. It is highly likely that there will be a live New Leaf Journal article about said keyboard when you read this newsletter, but that is technically an article for next newsletter week. Below, we cover the events of January 13-19 in our typical Newsletter Leaf Journal manner.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new articles since mailing Newsletter 169. \nShopping on AI (Sp)Amazon\nJustin and Justina discuss some interesting AI-generated product descriptions seen on Amazon (or Spamazon). \nProvocative O…",
"description":"\"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 2nd STAGE\" NOTES (Ep 1-5)\n\nI will review Tomozaki S2 at the end of the season. These are a few notes on the first five episodes for future reference.\n\nAnimation quality in episodes 1 and 5 was solid. Weaker in episodes 2-4 with some instances of off-model characters that we saw in the weaker points of S1.\nEpisode 1 was much like the first season with Hinami giving Tomozaki a light-hearted social task to carry out. This opening arc did a good job of showing Tomozaki's growth with respect to Hinami (setting limits on how far he would go in accomplishing his task) and in having friends he could rely on to help him achieve his objectives.\nOpening arc segued into a \"bullying arc\" wherein Erika Konno, who came off as unpleasant in her small role in season 1 and he…",
"description":"You never know what you will find while walking around in Brooklyn, New York. For example, here is a discovery from an October 14, 2022 walk -- an unopened gallon of Poland Spring water. It came with the \"Free H2O\" label lest anyone would have mistaken it for being lost instead of free.<br />\n<br />\nArticle:<br />\n<a href=\"https://thenewleafjournal.com/free-h2o-seen-in-brooklyn/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://thenewleafjournal.com/free-h2o-seen-in-brooklyn/</a><br />\n<br />\nTags:<br />\n<a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NYC?src=hash\" title=\"#NYC\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#NYC</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Brooklyn?src=hash\" title=\"#Brooklyn\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Brooklyn</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PolandSpring?src=hash\" title=\"#PolandSpring\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#PolandSpring</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Gallon?src=hash\" title=\"#Gallon\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Gallon</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Water?src=hash\" title=\"#Water\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Water</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Free?src=hash\" title=\"#Free\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Free</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Anecdote?src=hash\" title=\"#Anecdote\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Anecdote</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NewLeafJournal?src=hash\" title=\"#NewLeafJournal\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#NewLeafJournal</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TheNewLeafJournal?src=hash\" title=\"#TheNewLeafJournal\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#TheNewLeafJournal</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Teracube2e?src=hash\" title=\"#Teracube2e\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Teracube2e</a>",
"title":"You never know what you will find while walking around in Brooklyn, New York. For example, here is a discovery from an October 14, 2022 walk -- an unopened gallon of Poland Spring water. It came with the \"Free H2O\" label lest anyone would have mistaken it for being lost instead of free.\n\nArticle:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/free-h2o-seen-in-brooklyn/\n\nTags:\n#NYC #Brooklyn #PolandSpring #Gallon #Water #Free #Anecdote #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #Teracube2e",
"description":"Photograph of Manhattan from close to the Manhattan pedestrian walkway entrance/exit of the Brooklyn Bridge. I wrote a short post praising NYC and the NYPD for actually following through on clearing vendors and other impediments from the walkway -- making for a pleasant walk despite there being a good number of people.<br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/clear-brooklyn-bridge\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/clear-brooklyn-bridge</a><br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NYC?src=hash\" title=\"#NYC\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#NYC</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Manhattan?src=hash\" title=\"#Manhattan\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Manhattan</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ManhattanSkyline?src=hash\" title=\"#ManhattanSkyline\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#ManhattanSkyline</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BrooklynBridge?src=hash\" title=\"#BrooklynBridge\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#BrooklynBridge</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FreedomTower?src=hash\" title=\"#FreedomTower\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#FreedomTower</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PaceUniversity?src=hash\" title=\"#PaceUniversity\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#PaceUniversity</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Pixel3aXL?src=hash\" title=\"#Pixel3aXL\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Pixel3aXL</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/EmuCafeSocial?src=hash\" title=\"#EmuCafeSocial\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#EmuCafeSocial</a>",
"title":"Photograph of Manhattan from close to the Manhattan pedestrian walkway entrance/exit of the Brooklyn Bridge. I wrote a short post praising NYC and the NYPD for actually following through on clearing vendors and other impediments from the walkway -- making for a pleasant walk despite there being a good number of people.\n\nhttps://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/clear-brooklyn-bridge\n\n#NYC #Manhattan #ManhattanSkyline #BrooklynBridge #FreedomTower #PaceUniversity #Pixel3aXL #EmuCafeSocial",
"title":"A photograph of the Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The library was closed for improvements in July 21, 2023 and will remain closed for 18-24 months from that date. I took this photo on August 19, 2023.\n\nArticle:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/carroll-gardens-library-renovations/\n\n#NYC #Brooklyn #CarrollGardens #Library #Columns #ArchedWindow #Pixel3axl #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal",
"description":"My Logitech K310 keyboard after a good washing and scrubbing in my kitchen sink. I have been using this as my main desktop keyboard since April 2013 and it is still going strong after countless keystrokes, many cleanings, and one coffee incident. Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago.<br />\n<br />\nMy review:<br />\n<a href=\"https://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/</a><br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Logitech?src=hash\" title=\"#Logitech\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Logitech</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/LogitechK310?src=hash\" title=\"#LogitechK310\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#LogitechK310</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Keyboard?src=hash\" title=\"#Keyboard\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Keyboard</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PhysicalKeyboards?src=hash\" title=\"#PhysicalKeyboards\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#PhysicalKeyboards</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WashableKeyboard?src=hash\" title=\"#WashableKeyboard\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#WashableKeyboard</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NewLeafJournal?src=hash\" title=\"#NewLeafJournal\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#NewLeafJournal</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TheNewLeafJournal?src=hash\" title=\"#TheNewLeafJournal\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#TheNewLeafJournal</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pixel3axl?src=hash\" title=\"#pixel3axl\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#pixel3axl</a>",
"title":"My Logitech K310 keyboard after a good washing and scrubbing in my kitchen sink. I have been using this as my main desktop keyboard since April 2013 and it is still going strong after countless keystrokes, many cleanings, and one coffee incident. Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago.\n\nMy review:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/\n\n#Logitech #LogitechK310 #Keyboard #PhysicalKeyboards #WashableKeyboard #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #pixel3axl",
"title":"Let's check in on how Amazon and brand FOPEAS are doing...\n\nFictional dialogue inspired by the \"product\": https://thenewleafjournal.com/shopping-on-ai-spamazon/\n\nInternet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Ffulfill-request-respectful-information-users-Brown%2Fdp%2FB0CM82FJL2\n\n#Amazon #AI #Spam #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal",
"description":"Back in 2022, I wrote a guide to making a web browser search engine shortcut for DuckDuckGo and Brave timers (e.g., \"5 minute timer)\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/brave-and-duckduckgo-timer-search-shortcuts/\n#Timer #Firefox #Chromium #BraveSearch #DuckDuckGo",
"description":"I use the term \"survive and advance\" to describe a specific type of visual novel choice structure. In a late January article, I explained what inspired my use of the term (March Madness) and how I define it in the visual novel context.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/survive-and-advance-visual-novel-choices/\n#VisualNovels #VideoGames #VisualNovelChoices #Sports #NCAABasketball",
"description":"I read an article that described NBA Hall of Famer Tim Duncan as having been born \"overseas.\" While Duncan was not born in one of the 50 states, he was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands -- which is a U.S. territory. In my essay, I make the case that Duncan should not be described as having been born \"overseas\" in the sense the term is most commonly understood.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/espn-states-tim-duncan-was-born-overseas/\n#NBA #Sports #Citizenship #Nationality #Semantics",
"description":"I recently read that Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green turned 20. Sadly, I have no article to commemorate the occasion (although I should play them again), but I covered the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Gold and Sliver's (North American) release in 2020, including my memories of getting Pokémon Gold right when it came out.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/winds-of-new-beginnings-pokemon-gold-silver/\n#Pokémon #PokémonGold #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #VideoGames",
"description":"I have been following myself on Minds from Mastodon and Mastodon from Minds for a while now, but posts were not federating. For that reason, I was surprised to see my new Minds post pop up in my timeline. Looks like everything is integrated now...",
"description":"I never had a pet millipede and I do not plan to acquire one. But that did not stop me from writing an article about how to keep YOUR pet millipede from drowning in its own water dish.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/keep-the-pet-millipede-from-drowning/\n#Pets #Millipedes #Bugs #Dictionary",
"description":"I use YOGA Image Optimizer -- an open source GUI tool for optimizing images -- to handle the small images I use on my sites. I decided after using it for more than a year that a review was warranted.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-yoga-image-optimizer/\n#OpenSource #YOGAImageOptimizer #Linux #ImageOptimizer #Flatpak",
"description":"Thoughts on how to make good use of WordPress's native category and tag taxonomies.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/thoughts-on-wordpress-categories-and-tags/\n#WordPress",
"description":"I have been using a Logitech K310 keyboard since April 2013. The K310's standout feature is that it is washable. Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago -- but mine lives on.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/\n#Keyboard #Logitech",
"description":"I published a new version of my New Leaf Journal feed directory. It includes links to our RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds with directions for subscribing to narrower subsets of articles and it also includes our less-used feeds (e.g., mf2, TWTXT), static feed aggregator site, and off-site newsletter RSS feed. For those who do not know much about feeds, I also linked to my introduction and several essays on the benefits of feeds.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/new-leaf-journal-feeds/\n#WordPress #RSS #ATOM #JSONFeed #TWTXT #Feeds",
"description":"A 2022 post featuring my photographs of the Freedom Tower, shrouded in fog, from a morning walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/freedom-tower-in-the-fog-from-the-brooklyn-bridge/\n#NYC #Brooklyn #Manhattan #BrooklynBridge #FreedomTower #Fog #Photography",
"description":"2022: I took a look at EnBizCard, a free and open source web app for creating a static digital business card page. The result can be hosted as a static site -- but I followed the instructions to incorporate my business card into my WordPress site.\n\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/enbizcard-review-foss-digital-business-cards/",
"description":"I wrote a short article on the ongoing renovations of the Carroll Gardens Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library with my photos of the now (temporarily) closed building.\n\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/carroll-gardens-library-renovations/",
"description":"From 2021: My DuckDuckGo query for \"freedom tower birds\" returned top results that were very much at odds with one another. Unfortunately, neither of the results was the specific new (at the time) article that I was trying to pull up.\n\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/duckduckgo-presents-both-sides-of-the-freedom-tower-songbird-debate/",
"description":"Before doing anything on Bluesky, I connected my account to one of my domains. Then I installed a WordPress plugin to one of my sites to connect for cross posting. It took me longer than I would like to admit to figure out that the instant domain was .social, not .app.",
