"description":"Update osmosfeed.yaml\n\nAdded three feeds:\r\n\r\n1. Commits to NLJ Feeds YAML file\r\n2. Commits to Bing deindexing resource\r\n3. Feed for NAF's Memos account",
"description":"We begin with a patriotic bedtime story and conclude with Benjamin Franklin's thoughts on the bald eagle vs the turkey.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nTiki paralogue trick in Fire Emblem Engage\nCalvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\n\"The American Mind\" 〜 A 1923 July 4th Oration by Rev.…\nShort Bio of Mary Graham Bonner\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)",
"description":"We begin with a patriotic bedtime story and conclude with Benjamin Franklin's thoughts on the bald eagle vs the turkey.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nTiki paralogue trick in Fire Emblem Engage\nCalvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\n\"The American Mind\" 〜 A 1923 July 4th Oration by Rev.…\nShort Bio of Mary Graham Bonner\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)",
"description":"Re-printing a British officer's account of his 1827-28 visit to Benjamin Franklin's modest grave site.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nBenjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888\nThe American Bee Journal World's Fair Report\nJustin & Justina 〜 4th of July Grill Sacrifices to the…\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nA Charming Hometown Tax System Story\nLincoln spares Frank R. Judd in 1864-65\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nThe Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 - 114 Years Later",
"description":"Reviewing the (first half) year that was at The New Leaf Journal in 2023.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nThe New Leaf Journal 2022 Half-Year Review\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nQuince recipes from Mary Eales's receipts",
"description":"Today marks the end of June 2023. As we move into the heart of summer, we take a break to review […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nOriginal LOH: Trails in the Sky GIF ad\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nAnna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United…",
"description":"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.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?\nESPN States Tim Duncan was \"Born Overseas\"\nVersion history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari\nPlaying Through Cancer in Silence: Shawn Respert's NBA Story\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nNintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank",
"description":"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.\nPossibly related posts...\n\n1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft\nESPN States Tim Duncan was \"Born Overseas\"\nVersion history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari\nPlaying Through Cancer in Silence: Shawn Respert's NBA Story\nUpcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle\nWhy Would Anyone Believe Michael Jordan?\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…\nA Winter's Tale - Visual Novel Review",
"description":"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)\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Letter (Tegami) - Visual Novel Review\nOn Improving the Environment For Gaming On Linux\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nVersion history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari\nInstalling and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook\nGoing From ONScripter Visual Novel .exe to Native Linux\nRunning ONScripter-En in Linux Visual Novel Directory\nFlood of Tears - Visual Novel Review\nMIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro",
"description":"New York City has a problem with apparently homeless people sleeping in ATM vestibules at night. (I have been led to […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThomas Sowell on Hard-Core Troublemakers\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nWasteful talk show subsidies in New York\nIn Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds\nOn NYC Curfews and Essential Workers\nThe Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya…\nThe Awful About Page for Sara Tirschwell's NYC Mayoral…\nHarry Wilson Wants My Vote For Governor\nThe Arrival of Sparrows in the United States",
"description":"The world to reverse contains two distinct visual novels: hallucinate and Flanca. Both are more than a bit experimental and grim.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nI, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air - VN Review\nVisual Novel Review - Adagio\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nWhat Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection.\nFlood of Tears - Visual Novel Review\nRed Shift Visual Novel Review\nRunning Linux Visual Novels With ONScripter\nMay Sky - Visual Novel Review\nVersion history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari",
"description":"We review a sentimental visual novel about family set in the Japanese countryside (mild sci-fi may also be included).\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nFlood of Tears - Visual Novel Review\nCrimsoness - Visual Novel Review\nRed Shift Visual Novel Review\nMay Sky - Visual Novel Review\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nFrom the Bottom of the Heart - VN Review\nPlain Song - Visual Novel Review\nUntil We Meet Again - Visual Novel Review",
"description":"NoPaste is a free and open source pastebin of sorts. It was created by Mr.Boris Kubiak and the source code is […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nBird in Review 〜 Yellow Throated Toucan\nImplementing Article Series With WP Post Series\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nMatter of Man, 12 I&N Dec. 305 (BIA 1967) - BIA Hong Kong…\nRecommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices…\nReviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly…\nOn DRM-Free Games on Steam\nSubstack Notes' Twitter clone war",
"description":"I saw that the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA championship last night. I have been somewhat out of the NBA […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nAll About the Saw-whet Owl\nNoncitizen Nationals as Immigrant Visa Petitioners\nMosley on Mayweather: Confidence and Fear\nTim Hortons Settles Claims Related to Creepy App\nSeeing Hopkins-Jones II at the Theater\nPlaying Through Cancer in Silence: Shawn Respert's NBA Story\nOn Learning How to Ride a Skateboard Before Learning Tricks\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nImmigration Issues in NYPD Chinese Agent Case",
"description":"Using an ATOM feed and feed reader to stay abreast of the latest updates to a WordPress spam comment blacklist without using a plugin.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe story of our Bing blacklisting\nComment on the NLJ with Hypothes.is\nSave the Date - Visual Novel Review\nHistory of the Mario Party Gloves\nCapo vs Capo, a TikTok Debacle\nThe American Bee Journal World's Fair Report\nBiden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President's Birth\nLearning How to Change a Twitter Username\nClosing The New Leaf Journal Guestbook (Outdated)",
"description":"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.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nNaver Webmaster Trials and Tribulations\nExperiences in the Yandex Webmaster Portal\nMoving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free\nThe BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review\nMy WordPress Writing Workflow at The New Leaf Journal\nUpgrading WP Search With Relevanssi\nRemoving pages from Yandex Turbo\nReviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly…\nFixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error",
"description":"Today is primary day in New York City. The main attractions are City Council primaries and primaries for District Attorney in […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nOne Man, One Vote, Two \"I Voted!\" Stickers\nYou Can't Fix Stupid - King Baby\nThe \"King Baby BKF\" Sticker in Gowanus, Brooklyn\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nThe Downed Stop Sign in Vinegar Hill\nAn Unpleasant Voting Odor\nThe Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…\nCall in the Oligarchs to Restore Trust in Media? A Peculiar…\nBenjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888",
"description":"I revived our Guestbook using WordPress’s native comments in early June 2023. As of June 19, 2023, it has received many […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nClosing The New Leaf Journal Guestbook (Outdated)\nIntroducing The New Leaf Journal Guestbook\nRemoving pages from Yandex Turbo\nKeeping WP Comment Blacklist Up to Date\nWP Redis Object Cache and Link Hover Color\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nWordPress Webmention Plugin Discovery\nComment on the NLJ with Hypothes.is\nFixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error",
"description":"I came across an interesting article by Mr. Gregory Ciotti titled How to read and organize online articles (without driving yourself […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nInstalling Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013)\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review",
"description":"I do not personally use Reddit. I do not like Reddit. I include Reddit in my Privacy Redirect toggle settings for […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nA School Poem By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr\nSearching for the Figure Behind the Blob Dylan Tags in NYC…\nHistory of the Mario Party Gloves\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nThe Life Masks of John Henri Isaac Browere\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)\n\"Uncle Susan is a Wolf\" - A Graffiti Photo and Research…\nApplying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home\nThe July 4 Death of James Monroe",
"description":"I like peanut butter sandwiches on cinnamon raisin bread. I leave unsalted peanuts and raisins. I do not have cinnamon raisin […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nHalloween Cooking and Decorating Tips From 1913\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nAmerican Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Home Menus From 1913\n\"Coffee Fruit Punch\" - A Cookbook Abomination\nTea, Bread, and The Spectator in England in 1710\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review",
"description":"I use hBlock on Linux. It is a script which adds a domain blocklist to the hosts file (also available for […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nhBlock and My Attempt to Purchase Health Insurance in New…\nMasonic Portrait of George Washington\nWashington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation\nA Children's Poem on George Washington\nAn 1882 Children's Independence Day Poem\nAnna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United…\n\"Washington's Birthday\" Poem by Sangster\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nStrange \"create password\" form rules",
"description":"We use the Webmention plugin for WordPress to accept and send Webmentions. This is why I took the time to figure […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nReviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly…\nRemoving pages from Yandex Turbo\nFixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error\nUpgrading WP Search With Relevanssi\nImplementing Article Series With WP Post Series\nUsing Nostr Verify for WordPress NIP-05\nMoving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free\nKeeping WP Comment Blacklist Up to Date\nIndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom",
"description":"I run the Arch Linux-based EndeavourOS distribution on my main workstation. My primary package managers are pacman (for the regular Arch […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nNice Boat in the Arch User Repository\nOld Games, MIDI, and EndeavourOS\n\"Just keep tapping the Enter key\"\nMIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro\nApt to Use Pacman - Forgetting Your Linux Distribution,…\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nRunning Linux Visual Novels With ONScripter\nUsing an Amiga OS-Inspired Window Theme In XFCE With XFWM4\nDecSync Review",
"description":"I used Pikapods to set up a Memos server. What is Memos? Let us refer to the official website… A lightweight, […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nDecSync Review\nMoving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free\nGoogle Analytics Legal Issues in Denmark\nReviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter\nRead the Fine Print - Buying a Cheap Mini PC For a Home…\nFediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media\nRecommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices…\nA Casio Graphing Calculator Web-Server and IRC Client\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal",
"description":"I wanted to enable pingback and trackback support for WordPress pages in order to allow certain pages to accept and send […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nAnalysis of the From the Bottom of the Heart (Negaeba)…\nReview of the Original Persona 4 Artbook\nRemoving pages from Yandex Turbo\nPersona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam)\nThe story of our Bing blacklisting\nIndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom\nPeekier Search Engine Review\nUpgrading WP Search With Relevanssi\nMoving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free",
"description":"I published an article about anime romances with significant height differences between the main romantic pair back in March (see height […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nHeight differences in anime romances\nFutaba Igarashi's Hair Is Naturally Green?\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nAnime romantic comedy gimmicks...\nLateral thinking to extend game console life-cycles\nPerspectives From Japan On Watching Movie Credits\nWhat Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection.\nThe Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya…",
"description":"I read a Washington Times article about NBA star (and legend) Kevin Durant taking the initiative when some people on Twitter […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nReviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter\nAgainst Twitter as a Content Curator\nKevin's \"Goodbye Salad Days\" Photos at Brooklyn Bridge…\nMasonic Portrait of George Washington\nWashington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation\nLearning How to Change a Twitter Username\nUpcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle\nA Children's Poem on George Washington\nSubstack Notes' Twitter clone war",
"description":"On June 11, 2023, the New York Post reported that the NYPD has stepped up enforcement against public drinking in 2023. […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nAnna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United…\nKaori After Story - Visual Novel Review\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nSocial webs of personal websites\nThe Pigeon in the Puddle\nJustin & Justina 〜 4th of July Grill Sacrifices to the…\nCalvin Coolidge's 1922 \"Better Homes\" Remarks",
"description":"I observed a humorous dispute between two friends in high school. Boy C dropped the following burn on Boy N: You’re […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nJustin & Justina 〜 An Abyssinian Guinea Pig Birthday Present\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nBill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend\nNotes on the U.S. Border Patrol's Horse Patrol\nAnna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United…\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nHow the Forget-Me-Not Flower Found Its Name\nThe Pine Tree Lovers of Takasago\nMy great deep sea expectations",
"description":"From Anime News Network: The 12th episode for the television anime of Norio Sakurai’s The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nAnalysis of the From the Bottom of the Heart (Negaeba)…\nFrom the Bottom of the Heart - VN Review\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nHeight differences in anime romances\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nWhat Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection.\nThe Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime",
"description":"From a May 15, 2023 article by Mr. Brad Linder of Liliputing: Now a startup called Telly is going a step […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nWhat Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection.\nJustin and Justina 〜 Convincing a Google Devotee to Try…\nRecommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices…\nOn DRM-Free Games on Steam\nThe Poor Little Bird - Visual Novel Review\nMoving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free\nOn Improving the Environment For Gaming On Linux\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nInstalling and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook",
"description":"I quote from an interesting March 9, 2023 post on Privacy Dad’s Blog titled Control Your Own Content with RSS and […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nATW 〜 Murakami on Bad Social Media Content\nFediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media\nAn Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats\nFeeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nSubstack Notes' Twitter clone war\nSocial webs of personal websites\nAn Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative\nAgainst Twitter as a Content Curator",
"description":"I present the first sentence of an April 7, 2023 Associated Press report: Climate change is making major league sluggers into […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum\nThe modest virtues of self-awe\n\"Casey's Revenge\" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to…\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nCalvin Coolidge's 1922 \"Better Homes\" Remarks\nJustin & Justina 〜 The Pitching Injury\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nHerbert Hoover's Better Homes Remarks: \"The Home as an…\nHot Coffee on Summer Walks",
"description":"Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 142. You can see the original version here. Our July 1 newsletter […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe New Leaf Journal Newsletter\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII\nMost-Visited NLJ Articles of 1H 2023",
"description":"Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 141 (see original, sent June 24, 2023). Below, you will find the […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe New Leaf Journal Newsletter\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII\nAn Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats",
"description":"Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 140, the official newsletter of this very New Leaf Journal (see original). […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe New Leaf Journal Newsletter\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII\nAn Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats",
"description":"Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 139. After I was late in making my Monday syndication target for […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe New Leaf Journal Newsletter\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII\nAn Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats",
"description":"Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 138 (see original). I am supposed to syndicate our Saturday newsletters on […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe New Leaf Journal Newsletter\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII\nAn Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats",
"description":"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.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI 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.\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?\nI exami…",
"description":"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.\nTable of contents\nLeaves from the week that was\nLeaves from around the web\nThe Old Leaf Journal\nMost-turned leaves of the newsletter week\nNews leaf journal\nNotable leaf journal\nTaking leaf\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new articles and several short posts since mailing Newsletter 140.\nRegular articles\nThe world to reverse – Visual Novel Review\nThe world to …",
"description":"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.\nTable of contents\nLeaves from the week that was\nLeaves from around the web\nThe Old Leaf Journal\nMost-turned leaves of the newsletter week\nNews leaf journal\nNotable leaf journal\nTaking leaf\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published four regular articles since mailing newsletter 139. I also pu…",
"description":"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.\nTable of contents\nLeaves from the week that was\nLeaves from around the web\nThe Old Leaf Journal\nMost-turned leaves of the newsletter week\nNews leaf journal\nNotable leaf journal\nTaking leaf\nLeaves from the week that was\nI …",
"description":"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).\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/justin-justina-4th-of-july-grill-sacrifices-to-the-spirits-of-the-founders/\n#4thofjuly #independenceday #humor #ushistory #foundingfathers",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/calvin-coolidges-july-4-1918-remarks-in-fairhaven/\n#4thofjuly #independenceday #CalvinCoolidge #japan #ushistory #speech",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/calvin-coolidge-on-why-we-celebrate-independence-day/\n#4thofjuly #independenceday #CalvinCoolidge #uspresidents #speech #ushistory",
"description":"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).\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/the-american-mind-a-1923-july-4th-oration-by-charles-w-lyons/\n#independenceday #4thofjuly #ushistory #ThomasJefferson",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/two-independence-day-themed-pokemon-battles-ferrell-vs-gurbo/\n#pokemon #4thofjuly #independenceday #videogames #nintendoswitch",
"description":"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.\n(It's a neat tool. Were I to use it more seriously... I'd put it somewhere attached to my own domain.)\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/deploying-nopaste-to-surge/\n#pastebin #nopaste #staticsite #github #opensource",
"description":"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.\n(Or so I tell myself.)\n#bing #microsoft #webmaster",
"description":"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.\n#nintendoswitch #guilkit #HallEffect #dreamcast #videogames",
"description":"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).\nhttps://apothes.is/hosted/at2006/collage.html\n#visualnovel #visualnovels",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/collage-visual-novel-review/\n#visualnovel #visualnovels #game #freeware #doujin #japan",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/ads.txt\n#wordpress #textfile #ads",
"description":"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.\nhttps://memos.emucafe.org/m/11\n#endeavouros #arch #printers",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/using-nostr-verify-for-wordpress-nip-05/\n#wordpress #wordpressplugin #nostr #nip05 #socialmedia",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/add-pingback-support-to-wordpress-pages/\n#wordpress #webmentions #indieweb #php",
"description":"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.\n(Review forthcoming next month.)\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/on-the-hunt-for-manatsu-no-kagerou/\n#visualnovel #visualnovels #twitter #torrents",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/the-new-leaf-journal-twitter/\n#twitter #blogging #sharing #socialmedia",
"description":"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.\n(Note: For Microsoft reasons, I think this is one case were GitHub is the perfect host for this project.)\nhttps://github.com/nafnlj/not-awesome-bing-bans-and-deindexing\nHT to @Dariusz_w for giving me the idea to share the story by publishing his excellent \"Bing Jail\" article and sharing it to Hacker News.\n#bing #searchengine #deindexing #seo #github",
"description":"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.\nhttps://personacentral.com/persona-3-reload-announced/\n#persona3 #persona4 #persona5 #videogames #jrpg",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-keikai-launcher-android/\n#android #lineageos #keikailauncher #opensource #fdroid",
"description":"I decided to go with Shotwell for the time being instead of installing Nomacs as a Flatpak. Seems to do what I need (although I prefer Nomacs). I could not figure out how to change the size of the images though. Looked it up. You can only change size when saving? Weird. It works in the end...\n#linux #nomacs #shotwell",
"description":"I use(d) Nomacs as my image viewer. It suddenly wouldn't open photos anymore. Tried reinstalling from AUR and it won't install. Apparently I'm not the only one with the issue. The search for a replacement begins...\n#aur #nomacs #linux",
"description":"Interesting discussion on Manjaro going on. I used Manjaro (first KDE, then XFCE) for my first two years on Linux before switching to EndeavourOS. I chimed in to concur with a few commenters who much prefer EndeavourOS, but that comes with a caveat. While I am much happier on EndeavourOS, Manjaro's GUI tools, notably Pamac, helped me get up to speed three years ago having come from only using Windows. EndeavourOS would have been a much heavier lift when I started.\n(Note: Let us set aside that I should have been using something like Mint or one of the Ubuntus or derivatives thereof and not Manjaro.)\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36249036\n#linux #endeavouros #manjaro",
"description":"I can see the strange Brooklyn NY haze from my window as I enjoy my coffee. The scene makes me sentimental (or sedimental) for one of my favorite video games -- a game which combined a foreboding fog with at least one touching family scene involving coffee. I once wrote about this special scene and giving coffee to children on school nights.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/persona-4-coffee-and-children/\n#videogames #persona4 #coffee #nyc #haze",
"description":"I decided to test Nostr after coming across an easy-to-use WordPress plugin for using my site as a NIP-05 identifier (short write-up forthcoming). Then came across @melvincarvalho 's Nostr directory. Managed to sign my Twitter and Mastodon with my key. I'll figure out GitHub next. Pretty neat.\nhttps://nostr.directory/p/newleafjournal\n#nostr #mastodon #twitter #wordpress",
"description":"It's a bit smoky in Brooklyn, New York today. But on the bright side, the Moon was an interesting shade of red last night. Tsuki ga kirei desu ne indeed...\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/the-mystery-of-soseki-and-tsuki-ga-kirei/\n(How could I pass up a natural opportunity to share my history of the phrase tsuki ga kirei?)\n#nyc #haze #moon #history #japan",
"description":"How do you organize all of the things you read?\nMy 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.\nI agree that reading is a key part of writing.",
"description":"Where such denial-of-service conditions occur, Cloudflare provides a bizarre\n“one more step” page inviting the visitor to complete a reCAPTCHA to access the\nsite. Cloudflare claims that this is based on IP reputation, which constitutes\na fallacious equivocation of IPs and users which has been found to be highly\ndetrimental to Tor users in terms of the browseability of the web.\nThis 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.\n\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/using-web-archives-to-get-around-captchas/",
"description":"§ 1003.36 Record of proceeding.\nThe Immigration Court shall create and control the Record of Proceeding.\nRegulation providing that the Immigration Court is responsible for creating and controlling the Record of Proceeding.",
"description":"Jokic joins Antetokounmpo, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players born overseas to take home the Finals award.\nTim Duncan was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, so I am not sure how \"overseas\" is being defined here.",
"description":"I got a result, but only by emailing bwtsupport at microsoft dot com. They resolved it. I also sent a letter to their legal dept, but I think emailing their support did the trick. This is not a published email I dug it up in a forum post. Worked. Hope you get help too.\nA Microsoft forum poster suggests an alternative email address, bwtsupport at microsoft dot com, for raising concerns about Bing de-indexing. This email is listed in some older posts from the official Bing blog. I have not personally tested it yet but will keep a note here.",
"description":"Remove db lock in Pacman:\n$ rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck\n\n#linux #pacman",
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"description":"Project Gutenberg's scanned edition of Bradford Torrey's \"A World of Green Hills\" as a very aesthetic cover:\nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/70026/70026-h/70026-h.htm\n#ProjectGutenberg",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/22",
"publishedOn":"2023-07-03T02:59:23.000Z",
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"description":"Final thoughts: Skip to Loafer\nI 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.\n(The opening song and animation is very good, however.)\n#SkipToLoafer #anime",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/21",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-23T02:44:00.000Z",
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"description":"Penultimate episode thoughts: My Clueless First Friend\nMy 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.\n#anime #MyCluelessFirstFriend",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/20",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-23T02:36:32.000Z",
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"description":"Running Yuuki! Novel version of Tegami on top of WINE:\nNo special requirements other than Japanese language environment and Japanese fonts.\nDownload: https://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/834\n#tegami #visualnovels #yuukinovel",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/19",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-21T21:30:52.000Z",
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"title":"Running Yuuki! Novel version of Tegami on top of WINE:",
"description":"The world to reverse external reviews/links:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYdxSRB2IbQ (very positive review)\nhttps://yuechan.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/slightly-disturbing-yet-very-nice/ (totally missed the point of Hallucinate but fair on Flanca)\nhttp://cloverzero00.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-28.html (liked and understood Hallucinate but had some trouble with Flanca)\nhttps://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)\nhttps://vndb.org/t3378 (Surprised the ending of Hallucinate caused so much confusion... but still working through Flanca myself)\n#al|together #visualnovels #TheWorldToReverse",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/18",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-19T03:44:24.000Z",
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"description":"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.\nWorking with 2011: Night of the Forget-Me-Nots, Visions from the Other Side\nWorking 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)\nWill 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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/midi-sound-for-games-on-arch-based-distro/\n#ONScripter-EN #linux #MIDI #al|together",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/17",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-19T02:04:12.000Z",
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"title":"ONScripter-EN issue. It seems that old al|together games with MIDI sound do not have working sound w...",
"description":"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.\n#OshiNoKo #anime #anime2023",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/16",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-18T04:16:51.000Z",
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"title":"Several of the spring 2023 anime season series have picked up in their second halves since I [expres...",
"description":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-V/subchapter-A/part-1003/subpart-C/section-1003.36\n8 CFR 1003.36\nThe Immigration Court shall create and control the Record of Proceeding.\n#law #ImmigrationLaw #ImmigrationCourtProcedure",
"description":"For hBlock: https://github.com/hectorm/hblock\nCommand for temporary clearing domain list from hosts file:\nhblock -S none -D none\n\nDiscussed in past article: https://thenewleafjournal.com/hblock-and-my-attempt-to-purchase-health-insurance-in-new-york/\nAlso found hBlock prevents sign-in to Washington Times.\n#hblock #adblocking #linux",
"description":"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:\nhttps://discovery.endeavouros.com/printers/printers/#network-printer\nStep one:\npacman -Qs nss-mdns \n\nStep two:\nnano /etc/nsswitch.conf\n\nStep three:\nChange...\nhosts: mymachines resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] files myhostname dns\n\nTo...\nhosts: mymachines mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] files myhostname dns\n\n\n#linux #printers #Arch #EndeavourOS",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-12T17:39:28.000Z",
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"title":"I was unable to print using my Brother printer from my EndeavourOS workstation. I resolved the issue...",
"description":"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:\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160208042342/http://freett.com/yuukiex/yuukinovel.html (Last capture of official website, download links still work)\nhttps://visuallyneko.wordpress.com/visual-novel-tools/yuukinovel/ (short article about)\nI 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.\n#tegami #insani #yuukinovel #visualnovels #NScripter",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/10",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-12T03:55:55.000Z",
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"description":"I am reading through The Letter for my next al|together review. I had an interesting issue that I will document here.\nDownloaded Windows installer from Insani's al|together 2008\nExtracted contents of Windows .exe into a new directory\n(Note: Running EndeavourOS with mainline Linux kernel)\nRan Galladite's newest build of ONScripter-EN for Linux in the directory (https://github.com/Galladite27/ONScripter-en/releases/tag/2023-06-05)\nInitially had skipping and static noise in the music\nTested Kaisernet's 2011 build and had the same issue\nTested on secondary PC running Fedora and had no issue\nRebooted my workstation and then sound worked with no issue with Galladite's newest ONScripter-EN build\nI don't know what the issue was -- but The Letter has a great soundtrack, so I am glad that I resolved it (somehow)\n#insani #ONScripter-EN #visualnovles #tegami",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/9",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-12T02:27:32.000Z",
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"title":"I am reading through [*The Letter*](http://altogether.insani.org/2008/3.html) for my next [al|togeth...",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/radicale-decsync-aur-issues/\nHowever, I ran into the following error today when I tried to launch the local server:\n[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\n\n\nSolution from AUR libdecsync package: Install libxcrypt-compat\npacman -S libxcrypt-compat\n\n#linux #decsync #pacman #pypi",
"link":"https://memos.emucafe.org/m/8",
"publishedOn":"2023-06-11T20:02:44.000Z",
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"title":"I previously noted that I could not start my local Radicale-DecSync server and that switching from t...",
"description":"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.\nhttps://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist\nI 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.\n#wordpress #feeds #newleafjournal",
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"publishedOn":"2023-06-11T16:10:14.000Z",
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"description":"Thoughts on anime episodes I watched yesterday:\nThe Dangers in My Heart 11\nPosted its best episode for the second week in a row. The protagonist, Kyo, came to an important realization. In addition to the story progress, this episode featured some beautiful backgrounds for Kyo's abbreviated vacation. I am curious to see if it resolves key points in its conclusion in the same way that Angel Next Door did last season. Despite the strong finish, the series is held back by a rough start and our lack of insight into Anna's perspective and feelings.\nMy Love Story With Yamada-kun 11\nIt has improved a bit in its second half (having noted that I was not impressed with the first half, and episode 11 offers some hope that something will be resolved in the finale (I have my doubts). Akane, like Kyo, appears to have come to a realization (albeit she will state it clearly in the next episode).\nMix S2 10\nGranting that I am watching Mix without the benefit of having seen Touch, it continues to meander at a slow pace with surprisingly little baseball action, even compared to season 1. Generally pleasant, but stronger signs in episode 10 that it is going in an unfortunate direction on one of its romantic stories than we had before (not that the signs haven't been there, that is). I did appreciate one scene where the main protagonist, Touma, offered some meta-commentary on people losing interest in slow stories. The ending song and animation is still fantastic, especially for a show that has a 1980s animation aesthetic.\n#anime #dangersinmyheart #yamadakunat999 #mix-anime",
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"description":"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.\n#admin #newleafjournal",
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"title":"This is [N.A. Ferrell](https://thenewleafjournal.com/author/naferrell/) of [*The New Leaf Journal*](...",
"description":"https://thenewleafjournal.com/\nI 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.\nhttps://memos.emucafe.org/u/2\nI 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.",
"description":"I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS last year after using Manjaro for two (Manjaro was my first experience with Linux as a daily driver) and agree with this fully. I much prefer using Arch's regular repositories to Manjaro's. But having used Manjaro as my first distribution (I shouldn't have been using an Arch-based distro, but that aside), I don't think EndeavourOS is a one-to-one normie replacement in all respects. While I don't need or want Manjaro's GUI tools now, Pamac and its GUI kernel/driver tools helped me make the adjustment from having only used Windows to Linux. I am sure I could have managed on EndeavourOS, but it would have been more difficult at the time.",
"description":"Update README.md\n\nAdded ToC.\r\nFixed minor formatting issues.\r\nAdded link to article about Seznam's issues being blocked by Webmasters.",
