"description":"Update osmosfeed.yaml\n\nRemoved general NAF Gitea feed because it pulls in updates that do not make sense for this site. I will replace it with individual repo feeds.",
"description":"I review an al|together-translated visual novel with unusually high production values and a main character with braids.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nI, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air - VN Review\nAt Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer\nBonner's \"In Dreamland\" Bedtime Story\nAt Summer's End - Visual Novel Review\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nal|together Visual Novel Reviews and Posts\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation",
"description":"A goose continues drinking from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park and comes away satisfied... part two...\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 1\nObserving a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and…\nFamily of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nBaby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park\nA Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge\nOn Haughty Dog Owners in NYC\nJustin and Justina 〜 Convincing a Google Devotee to Try…",
"description":"A goose drinks from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park... part one...\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 2\nObserving a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and…\nFamily of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nBaby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park\nA Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge\nOn Haughty Dog Owners in NYC\nNineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends",
"description":"Reviewing an obscure 19th century sport, as described in an 1882 issue of Harper's Young People.\nPossibly related posts...\n\n1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball\n1892 Report on Women's Basketball Game\nThe Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters\nNineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nEd Durr Walks To A Stunning Election Upset In New Jersey\n\"Casey's Revenge\" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to…\nThe Story of the Herald Square Carrier Pigeons\nThe Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…",
"description":"Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nCalvin Coolidge's 1922 \"Better Homes\" Remarks\nOn Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007\nWhen President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving…\nCalvin Coolidge On Why We Celebrate Independence Day\nCalvin Coolidge Describes His Mother, Victoria\nCalvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation\nCoolidge and Harrison in Bennington\nCalvin Coolidge's July 4, 1918 Remarks in Fairhaven\nApplying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home",
"description":"Wherein I try to understand how the post-superhuman Barry Bonds in 2006 and 2007 was walked almost as much as the record-breaking Bonds of 2001-2003 (not 2004... of course).\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)\nThe Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?",
"description":"How I used a sticky note to hold an optical audio cable in place in my Yamaha soundbar after the optical audio cable door broke.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nReplacing soundbar and re-configuring universal remote for…\nAn Optical Audio Cable Packaging Story\nOptical audio cable story update\nMicropost on Soundbar and Remote Struggles\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nMeghan Markle's \"The Bench\" and Audio Book Versions of…\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nEGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke\nUSB-C Charger Surprises",
"description":"I was curious whether we would learn about the brown hair of the girl in The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses. Instead, we learn about the brown hair of the boy who likes her.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation\nTokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies\nHair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan\nA Walker's Review of BLUPOND's Knight Vision Night Driving…\nUnderstanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series\nBrown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again!\nIroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected?\nHair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel\nExamining brown hair of popular anime characters",
"description":"It appears that something with my caching configuration choked earlier today and served a compressed file for download to visitors in […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review\nWP Super Cache Preload and Lazy Loading\nThe Mysterious Pinterest Tracker\nSlow Leaf Journal, Outgrowing Cheap Hosting 〜 A Justin and…\nWhat Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection.\nThe Homing Pigeons Returned Home As Expected\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nWP Redis Object Cache and Link Hover Color\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review",
"description":"These days people are worried about vaping in schools. But the controversy reminded me of a strange traditional smoking story from my middle school days (with a high school sequel).\nPossibly related posts...\n\nPersona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam)\nThe Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme\nDialogue: \"Skunks\" in Staten Island Conspiracy\nNight of the Forget-Me-Nots: VN Review\nThe Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nThe dangers of adapting school to tech\nAt Summer's End - Visual Novel Review\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review",
"description":"On how to host avatars locally on WordPress AND redirect Gravatar requests locally for users without local avatars.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\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\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)\nThe Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines",
"description":"Remembering the time I inadvertently triggered the wrath of a video game character in Persona 3 FES and was forced to hang on for dear virtual life.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nPersona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam)\nReview of the Original Persona 4 Artbook\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nIntroducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration…\nPersona 4, Coffee, and Children\nKeeping WP Comment Blacklist Up to Date\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nDesigning video games to produce benefits",
"description":"On noting the identical first names of the protagonists of two Midsummer visual novels I reviewed back to back (without knowing the names in advance).\nPossibly related posts...\n\nMidsummer Haze - Visual Novel Review\nA Midsummer Day's Resonance - VN Review\nNew Leaf Spring Content, New and Old\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nFinding Manatsu no Kagerou\n\"The Blind Girl and the Spring\" 〜 A Poem by Sydney Grey\nA Tanka on Ant Home Invasions in the Spring\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)\nThe Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…",
"description":"I take a look at one of the best visual novels of the al|together set, featuring a terrific protagonist in Kasumi Kurasawa, broken phones, holograms, and growing up.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nMidsummer Haze - Visual Novel Review\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nFinding Manatsu no Kagerou\nAnna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United…\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nJapanese Environment in PoL, Lutris, and Bottles\nWhy Vintage Guitars Sound Better\nAn 1895 Poem on Memorial Day and Piece by Theodore Roosevelt",
"description":"I have some notable site news to share and a good (albeit small) collection of articles from August 2023.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nFlood of Tears - Visual Novel Review\nInstalling Non-Listed Programs in PlayOnLinux\nThe story of our Bing blacklisting\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020",
"description":"On our new Twtxt feed and how to set one up in WordPress. This will be useful for the 2-3 Twtxt users who may find our site.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nAn Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats\nFeeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading\nRSS as a Facebook Alternative\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nSubscribing to category-specific RSS feeds\nFollow The New Leaf Journal Pixelfed Atom Feed\nIntroducing our Osmosfeed Aggregator\nIndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom\nRSS for keeping up with MikroTik updates",
"description":"We have been using the BunnyPress theme for WordPress by Yossy’s Web Service since June 2020. I wrote a review three […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?\nImplementing Article Series With WP Post Series\nThe Small Web, Artisanal Content, and Humane Design\nWP Super Cache Preload and Lazy Loading\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nRecording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and Shield…",
"description":"WordPress pages (as opposed to posts) do not have pingback and trackback support by default. I had a need to enable […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nLocal Avatars and Redirecting Gravatars\nReviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly…\nThe New Leaf Journal Twtxt Feed\nRemoving pages from Yandex Turbo\nImplementing Article Series With WP Post Series\nFixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error\nUsing Nostr Verify for WordPress NIP-05\nUpgrading WP Search With Relevanssi\nWordPress Webmention Plugin Discovery",
"description":"Kimi ni Todoke was a shoujo romance manga series which ran from 2005 through 2017. It received a two-season, 38-episode anime […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nUnderstanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?\nBiden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President's Birth\nMisguided parking ticket-income idea\n1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft\nMy Kimi ni Todoke article and Netflix",
"description":"I decided to try removing the right widget area and using the full screen. Mobile users should not experience too much […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe 999 Life of Herman Cain\nBing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem\nStreaming from Android to PocketBook\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nThe ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nInstalling Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013)\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nA Christmas Menagerie On a Lawn in Gowanus",
"description":"Courtesy of the New York Post, Man, 74, pushed onto NYC subway tracks in unprovoked attack: cops: A 74-year-old man was […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nWinds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver",
"description":"I just launched a new project called The Emu Café Social. It is a social publishing site for a select community […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nWelcome to The Emu Café\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nAkutagawa's The Dragon and The Emu Café\nA Wayward Emu Loses Its Way to The Emu Café\nI don't want your emu and I don't have to feed it\nOn When to Watch Credits or Leave a Bad Movie",
"description":"Welcome to the (syndicated) 150th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the prennially virid online writing magazine, […]\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\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nHow to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader",
"description":"I am moving toward finishing my al|together visual novel review project. I just finished reading A Dream of Summer (which had been pending for a while) and one of two translations of Narcissu (I did not realize that the al|together Narcissu was two translations in one package). This leaves just three novels to read. With […]",
"title":"[Note] I am moving toward finishing my al|together visual novel …",
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"description":"I was walking in Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but it could have been Cobble Hill) when I saw a pear on the sidewalk. This was unusual. You do not see too many pears on sidewalks in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the pear. But what […]",
"description":"I saw a copy of Tom Cantor’s Changed, a self-published religion conversion story that makes the rounds through an unsolicited direct mail campaign, sitting on a step in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Why might I care? Over at The New Leaf Journal, I published what I hope was a humorous article on the cover design of […]",
"description":"I spent more of my life than I would like to admit figuring out how to add my own footer text to our theme, which is a child theme of SemPress. But mission accomplished. With our child theme and my initial style tweaks done, I published version 1.0 of the newly-named Emusem Press to my […]",
"description":"I have learned about many new topics while looking for New Leaf Journal content. For example, as I noted in the above quote, I distinctly remember some of the “Y2K” computer glitch fears from 1999. But I do not recall having heard about the 9.9.99 fears. Fortunately, the internet preserved a number of contemporaneous articles […]",
"description":"A rare admin update. I am still having some issues with one or two of the plugins I hope to rely on for this project. I am seeing if I can resolve those issues before launching the site proper and bringing more posters on board. I hope to have it resolved one way or another […]",
"title":"[Note] A rare admin update. I am still having some issues with o…",
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"id":"https://social.emucafe.org/?p=354",
"author":"Nicholas A. Ferrell",
"description":"I had a long day of working on the site. On the down side, I am having some technical issues with a couple of our key plugins that I want to resolve before starting in earnest. At the moment, it seems like Post Kinds is a hard dependency for certain post types working when I […]",
"description":"WordPress pages (as opposed to posts) do not have pingback and trackback support by default. I had a need to enable it on The New Leaf Journal in order to allow certain pages to accept incoming Webmentions. In that case, I added the PHP snippet to my child theme’s functions.php file. But with multiple sites […]",
"title":"[Note] WordPress pages (as opposed to posts) do not have pingbac…",
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"id":"https://social.emucafe.org/?p=63",
"author":"Nicholas A. Ferrell",
"description":"Thank you administrator version of me for the site intro. I confirmed that the first post from the administrator version of my account is visible from my Mastodon profile. Very good. For early readers, my regular posts will come from this account (/naferrell). I will usually post site news and updates from my /nafaugustus account. […]",
"description":"Welcome to The Emu Café Social, a new social publishing project built on top of WordPress. I (N.A. Ferrell) am writing this post from my administrator account, but you will usually see me posting from my user account at social.emucafe.org/author/naferrell. If you want to learn more about the project, see our new About Page. I […]",
"description":"Welcome to the 154th 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 our short posts are on hiatus for the time being, I published six full articles since I last mailed you. You will find links to our new articles along with links from around the web and other news and notes below.\nLeaves from the week that was\nSix articles? Is this September 2020 instead of 2023? Let us see what is new...\nBroken Optical Audio Cable Door \"Fix\" (I think my sticky note fix is rather clever)\nOn Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 (One can infer why Barry Bonds was walked at an unprecedented r…",
"description":"Welcome to the 153rd 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 was not a big publishing week at The New Leaf Journal, but I produced a few articles while also continuing to work on improving the site and its sister project, The Emu Café Social. Let us begin our week-in-review.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI technically published three new articles, but one was about our cache system serving some visitors a compressed page to download instead of the normal web page for 12 hours on Thursday. Technical issue update aside, my two full articles were fairly long.\nMiddle sch…",
"description":"Welcome to Newsletter Leaf Journal 152. The Newsletter Leaf Journal is 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. I had a busy week with site administration -- although not all of it had to do with The New Leaf Journal (I will explain in our Notable Leaf Journal) section. But despite the side projects, I published several new articles and made a few adjustments to what I hope is your favorite perennially virid online writing magazine.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new full articles.\nTwo Visual Novel Midsummer Kasumis (I did not realize before reading Midsummer Haze and A Midsummer Day's Resonan…",
"description":"Welcome to the 151st 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. August is in the books, but I stepped up our publishing pace after a few slow weeks to bring the month to a proper conclusion. Below, I share our week's worth of posts, links from around the web, our new most-visited statistics, and other news and notes.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published six new articles since mailing Newsletter 150. I suppose that is a decent enough rebound from a one article week (even conceding the month-in-review post only barely counts).\nPumpkin Spice Makeup Removal Wipes: I am no…",
"description":"I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, The Emu Café Social. I have two outstanding issues:\nStatus post error when Friends plugin is enabled and Post Kinds is disabled. This is not an immediate issue since I am using both, but any situation wherein one plugin depends on another when the plugins provide different features makes me uncomfortable.\nMicropub plugin does not create an endpoint. This is minor since I do not personally plan to publish much using the Micropub endpoint, but it bothers me. I will need to investigate since I am unsure of the issue. I confirmed IndieAuth, on which Micropub depends, does work.\nNo other major issues at the moment. My ActivityPub profiles briefly stopped working, but I think I fixed that by ensuring that WP Super Cache does not cache author pages.\n#emucafesocial #wordpress #IndieWeb",
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"title":"I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, [The Emu Café Social](https://social....",
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"description":"I came across a WordPress plugin called Post Type Switcher. Description:\nThis plugin adds a simple post-type drop-down to the post editor interface, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type. It allows you to switch post’s type while editing your post.\nIt supports custom post types. This may come in handy down the line, so I am saving it here as a proverbial bookmark.\n#wordpress",
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"title":"I came across a WordPress plugin called [Post Type Switcher](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type...",
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"description":"I tried to set up a mini WordPress site on Pikapods that would be used for social publishing. It was successful at a baseline level but I found that things like setting security headers via .htaccess were not working. There were a few other instances of behavior that I did not like, so I will switch the project over to the NLJ server where I can manage it with Cloudron.\n#wordpress #webhosting",
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"description":"I saw a pear on the ground in the NYC neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but small chance it was Cobble Hill). You do not tend to see pears on the ground in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the issue.<br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/</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/brooklyn?src=hash\" title=\"#brooklyn\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#brooklyn</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/brooklynheights?src=hash\" title=\"#brooklynheights\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#brooklynheights</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cobblehill?src=hash\" title=\"#cobblehill\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#cobblehill</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tree?src=hash\" title=\"#tree\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#tree</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pear?src=hash\" title=\"#pear\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#pear</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sun?src=hash\" title=\"#sun\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#sun</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/emucafe?src=hash\" title=\"#emucafe\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#emucafe</a>",
"title":"I saw a pear on the ground in the NYC neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but small chance it was Cobble Hill). You do not tend to see pears on the ground in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the issue.\n\nhttps://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/ \n\n#nyc #brooklyn #brooklynheights #cobblehill #tree #pear #sun #pixel3axl #emucafe",
"description":"An 1829 quip about the comedy of life reminded me of a quote attributed to Augustus on his deathbed (14 AD), which I turned into a 2020 article.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/augustus-and-the-comedy-of-life/\n#quotes #augustus #romanhistory #history",
"description":"I was so proud of my solution to a broken optical audio cable door on my soundbar that I decided to turn it into an article. All it took was part of a sticky note... but the \"fix\" can still fall victim to sudden movements.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/broken-optical-audio-cable-door-fix/\n#soundbar #OpicalAudio #yamaha",
"description":"As I note in the article, the game remains free to download from the official source and can be run natively on Windows and Linux (not modern MacOS, although the original translators are working on remastered versions that will run on modern MacOS).",
"description":"My review of A Midsummer Day's Resonance, the 2005 translation of a 2002 freeware Japanese visual novel. I reviewed it as part of a project to review nearly 30 translations from 2005-2008. A Midsummer Day's Resonance, which is a story about growing up with holograms coming from phones, turned out to be one of the better reads thus far.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/a-midsummer-days-resonance-vn-review/\n#VisualNovel #VisualNovels #freeware #indiegame",
"description":"I remembered the \"Y2K\" computer scare from when I was a kid, but not the fears of 9.9.99... my article 2022 on the concerns about 1999 September bugs.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/the-9-9-99-computer-bug-that-wasnt/\n#1999 #glitch #bugs #thisdayinhistory",
"description":"A post wherein I relive the trauma of inadvertently making an enemy very angry (and spammy) in Persona 3 FES's Answer epilogue about 13 years ago (note that there are some FES The Answer spoilers, albeit below the fold).\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/surviving-megidolaon-spam-in-persona-3/\n#videogame #jrpg #persona3fes #persona3 #playstation2",
"description":"I am starting a WordPress-based social publishing sitewith the ActivityPub plugin. If anyone is interested, you can already follow our first three accounts:\n@nafaugustus \n@naferrell \n@victorvgurbo \nYou can learn more on our first About page:\nhttps://social.emucafe.org/about/\nIf you do follow, I would appreciate notes/feedback on how our posts look from your instance (or if you can see at all). You can also follow the main WP site via RSS, ATOM, JSON feed or even TWTXT (/feed/twxt).",
"description":"The boy-Emperor Romulus Augustulus is often described as the last (Western) Roman Emperor. He abdicated the royal purple to Odoacer on September 4, 476. But there remained another claimant to the title of Western Roman Emperor -- the exiled Julius Nepos, who lived until 480. Who was the last Western Roman Emperor? One year to the day, I wrote an article on this ultimately unimportant question.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/who-was-the-last-western-roman-emperor/\n#RomanEmpire #rome #fallofrome #history #romanhistory",
"description":"If you decide you want to experience the adventure that is Midsummer Haze for yourself, I wrote a story spoiler-free guide to the endings and published it to a repository on my Gitea instance.\nhttps://giteacoffee.emucafe.org/naferrell/altogether_visual_novel_guides/src/branch/main/Midsummer_Haze_Endings_Guide.md\n#visualnovel #visualnovels #guide",
"description":"Let it be said that Midsummer Haze's... interesting... random mechanic was not my only challenge. The EN translation is a patch for an indie Japanese VN from 2004 that went offline in 2008 or 09. In a separate post, I explained how I managed to find the original Japanese game... much searching and a lucky torrent.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/finding-manatsu-no-kagerou/\n#visualnovel #visualnovels #torrents #research",
"description":"I reviewed Midsummer Haze, a 2006 translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel, as the 24th review of my project to review nearly all of the 31 Japanese visual novels translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals. The game has four endings, and the third unlocks the fourth. How do you get the third? By re-doing the second until it triggers. How many times did that take me? FORTY-THREE\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/midsummer-haze-visual-novel-review/\n#visualnovel #doujin #visualnovels #freeware #WINE #lutris",
