My current visual novel review project, The Letter, is the 2008 translation of a 2007 Japanese visual novel called Tegami. Like most of the al|together translation projects visual novels, Tegami was written in NScripter. However, the 2007 release was its second release. The first version was created with Yuuki! Novel. I looked up Yuuki! Novel and found a couple of interesting resources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160208042342/http://freett.com/yuukiex/yuukinovel.html (Last capture of official website, download links still work) https://visuallyneko.wordpress.com/visual-novel-tools/yuukinovel/ (short article about) I downloaded the latest release of Yuuki! Novel (latest being from 2005) and an English-language translation of some of its docs. File away for a future project. #tegami #insani #yuukinovel #visualnovels #NScripter

I am reading through The Letter for my next al|together review. I had an interesting issue that I will document here. Downloaded Windows installer from Insani's al|together 2008 Extracted contents of Windows .exe into a new directory (Note: Running EndeavourOS with mainline Linux kernel) Ran Galladite's newest build of ONScripter-EN for Linux in the directory (https://github.com/Galladite27/ONScripter-en/releases/tag/2023-06-05) Initially had skipping and static noise in the music Tested Kaisernet's 2011 build and had the same issue Tested on secondary PC running Fedora and had no issue Rebooted my workstation and then sound worked with no issue with Galladite's newest ONScripter-EN build I don't know what the issue was -- but The Letter has a great soundtrack, so I am glad that I resolved it (somehow) #insani #ONScripter-EN #visualnovles #tegami

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/radicale-decsync-aur-issues/ However, I ran into the following error today when I tried to launch the local server: [2023-06-11 15:56:14 -0400] [2661] [CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: Failed to load storage module 'radicale_storage_decsync': libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Solution from AUR libdecsync package: Install libxcrypt-compat pacman -S libxcrypt-compat #linux #decsync #pacman #pypi

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. https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist I found this big one on GitHub and copied it into my install. The repo notes that there are plugins for keeping it up-to-date, but I thought of a better idea. After some clicking around, I found the atom feed for updates to the blocklist text file. I added it to mfeed, a Firefox extension I use to keep track of feeds for repo and software updates. Now I will not only be able to keep my stopwords list up to date, but I also have a NLJ topic on keeping the list up to date without a plugin. #wordpress #feeds #newleafjournal

Thoughts on anime episodes I watched yesterday: The Dangers in My Heart 11 Posted 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. My Love Story With Yamada-kun 11 It 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). Mix S2 10 Granting 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. #anime #dangersinmyheart #yamadakunat999 #mix-anime

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/add-pingback-support-to-wordpress-pages/ #wordpress #webmentions #indieweb #php

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I used Pikapods to set up a Memos server. What is Memos? Let us refer to the official website… A lightweight, […] Possibly related posts... DecSync Review Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free Google Analytics Legal Issues in Denmark Reviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter Read the Fine Print - Buying a Cheap Mini PC For a Home… Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… A Casio Graphing Calculator Web-Server and IRC Client The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal  ( 5 min )

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. #admin #newleafjournal

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. Table of contents Leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the week that was I …  ( 9 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 138 (see original). I am supposed to syndicate our Saturday newsletters on […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats  ( 9 min )

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. (Review forthcoming next month.) https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/on-the-hunt-for-manatsu-no-kagerou/ #visualnovel #visualnovels #twitter #torrents

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-new-leaf-journal-twitter/ #twitter #blogging #sharing #socialmedia

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I wanted to enable pingback and trackback support for WordPress pages in order to allow certain pages to accept and send […] Possibly related posts... Analysis of the From the Bottom of the Heart (Negaeba)… Review of the Original Persona 4 Artbook Removing pages from Yandex Turbo Persona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam) The story of our Bing blacklisting IndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom Peekier Search Engine Review Upgrading WP Search With Relevanssi Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free  ( 5 min )

Bing has blocked The New Leaf Journal from appearing in web search results since January (we were de-indexed in March). I created a GitHub repository to collect stories and resources about similar cases to help others with strange Bing problems. (Note: For Microsoft reasons, I think this is one case were GitHub is the perfect host for this project.) https://github.com/nafnlj/not-awesome-bing-bans-and-deindexing HT 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. #bing #searchengine #deindexing #seo #github

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. https://personacentral.com/persona-3-reload-announced/ #persona3 #persona4 #persona5 #videogames #jrpg

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-keikai-launcher-android/ #android #lineageos #keikailauncher #opensource #fdroid

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... #linux #nomacs #shotwell

Collage is the official 2006 English language translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel of the same year. The original […] Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Red Shift Visual Novel Review Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review Summer, Cicadas, and the Girl - VN Review Visual Novel Review: May Sky ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review Plain Song - Visual Novel Review Version history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari Night of the Forget-Me-Nots: VN Review  ( 21 min )

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. Possibly related posts... Naver Webmaster Trials and Tribulations Experiences in the Yandex Webmaster Portal Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review My WordPress Writing Workflow at The New Leaf Journal Upgrading WP Search With Relevanssi Removing pages from Yandex Turbo Reviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly… Fixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error  ( 10 min )

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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... #aur #nomacs #linux

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. (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.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36249036 #linux #endeavouros #manjaro

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/persona-4-coffee-and-children/ #videogames #persona4 #coffee #nyc #haze

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. A 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.

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. https://nostr.directory/p/newleafjournal #nostr #mastodon #twitter #wordpress

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... https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-mystery-of-soseki-and-tsuki-ga-kirei/ (How could I pass up a natural opportunity to share my history of the phrase tsuki ga kirei?) #nyc #haze #moon #history #japan

I quote from an interesting March 9, 2023 post on Privacy Dad’s Blog titled Control Your Own Content with RSS and […] Possibly related posts... ATW 〜 Murakami on Bad Social Media Content Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Substack Notes' Twitter clone war Social webs of personal websites An Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative Against Twitter as a Content Curator  ( 5 min )

I present the first sentence of an April 7, 2023 Associated Press report: Climate change is making major league sluggers into […] Possibly related posts... The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum The modest virtues of self-awe "Casey's Revenge" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to… Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks Justin & Justina 〜 The Pitching Injury Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Herbert Hoover's Better Homes Remarks: "The Home as an… Hot Coffee on Summer Walks  ( 5 min )

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On March 16, the Library of Congress’ Global Legal Monitor published a report on Moldova changing its official state language from […] Possibly related posts... John Thomas James' Account of a Cemetery at Tchernigoff in… Uzbek President Mirziyoyev's War and Peace of the Union Kazakhstan's Constitutional Reform Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Substack Notes' Twitter clone war Return to Shironagasu Island Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)  ( 6 min )

A full review of a lightweight, minimal, open source launcher and app drawer for Android (LineageOS in my case). Possibly related posts... Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones What is an "Android Alternative"? On DRM-Free Games on Steam Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013) Reviewing "Calculator the Game" - A FOSS PWA Math Game For… Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a  ( 9 min )

Bromite is a free and open source hardened fork of Ungoogled Chromium for Android. I have recommended it in the past […] Possibly related posts... A Harmless Date Error in the Bromite Repository Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook Adding custom search shortcut for Wayback Machine Fixing Wallabag connect issue on Nexus 7 Peekier Search Engine Review The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho  ( 6 min )

I wrote a review of DecSync on March 30. DecSync allows for syncing contacts, calendars, tasks, and even RSS feeds across […] Possibly related posts... DecSync Review Running Linux Visual Novels With ONScripter From AUR to Mainline Arch Thunderbird Using an Amiga OS-Inspired Window Theme In XFCE With XFWM4 Nice Boat in the Arch User Repository "Just keep tapping the Enter key" From mullvad-vpn-cli to mullvad-vpn-bin Issue upgrading onscripter on EndeavourOS The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the 138th 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 editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While we still technically have a couple of weeks of spring here in New York City, something about June feels like the start of summer. But regardless of the season, real or perceived, we have new leaves from the week that was, links from around the web, and your usual assortment of New Leaf Journal news and notes. Table of contents Leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the week that was I publ…  ( 7 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 137 (see original). I am supposed to syndicate our Saturday newsletters on […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats  ( 10 min )

I read a Hacker News thread on a story about Android users moving to iOS. The thread revealed many takes, albeit […] Possibly related posts... What is an "Android Alternative"? Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones DecSync Review Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader Streaming from Android to PocketBook Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a  ( 6 min )

The story of how I switched from my Murena Teracube 2e phone to a Google Pixel 3a XL running LineageOS without having planned to do so. Possibly related posts... Review of the Teracube 2e Smartphone Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Updating 2020 Murena Teracube 2e Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… What is an "Android Alternative"? Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 10 min )

Reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal in May 2023. https://thenewleafjournal.com/may-2023-at-the-new-leaf-journal/ #blogging #writing

Recapping the fourth May at The New Leaf Journal. Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday At Summer's End - Visual Novel Review New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader Visual Novel Review: Bad End The Small Web, Artisanal Content, and Humane Design The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Working to Save The Bitter End Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations  ( 11 min )

My review if Crimsoness, the official 2008 translation of a 2006 Japanese visual novel called Shakunetsu Hime. In Crimsoness, the player takes the role of Bakumi Moriyama, a schoolgirl who upon realizing that all of her answers on an exam were off by one, sets out to destroy the entire planet in 3 minutes. The 3 minutes is literal here -- the novel is timed. Crimsoness is, dare I say, literally an Earth-splitting adventure. (It was also looks like it was drawn in Microsoft Paint.) Crimsoness is free to download for Windows (the Japanese original also remains available to download). Unlike most novels I am reviewing, it was not written in ONScripter (Delphi, in this case), but the Windows version runs perfectly fine on top of WINE on Linux with no special configuration. https://thenewleafjournal.com/crimsoness-visual-novel-review/ #visualnovel #videogames #red

From Crunchyroll: Despite the dramatic cliffhanger we were left to deal with two months ago, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale continues to […] Possibly related posts... Quince recipes from Mary Eales's receipts Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) "Cooking for Invalids" - Recipes For the Bedridden From… The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime "Coffee Fruit Punch" - A Cookbook Abomination Halloween Cooking and Decorating Tips From 1913 Peekier Search Engine Review The Quince Shortage - Justin and Justina American Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Home Menus From 1913  ( 5 min )

I review I, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air, a visual novel which offers two dream-like visual novels for the (free) price of one. Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… All About the Saw-whet Owl The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Bird in Review 〜 Yellow Throated Toucan "Casey's Revenge" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to… Searching for School Days' Nice Boat Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks Excerpts From "A Weaver's Reverie"  ( 17 min )

I read about an e-ink monitor for phones and thought the idea was interesting (as someone who wants an open source e-ink phone with a physical keyboard), but impractical. Instead of spending $300 to test a monitor (not that this was in the cards), I tried using the open source Screen Stream app on F-Droid to stream my phone screen with my feed reader to my PocketBook InkPad Color. Conclusion: It *works* -- but there are some practical annoyances. https://thenewleafjournal.com/streaming-from-android-to-pocketbook/ #fdroid #opensource #android #lineageos #eink #pocketbook

Re-printing Hannah Leah Reed's "Flowers for Brave Soldiers," a poem from her 1917 collection, "Memorial Day and Other Verse" "Flowers for brave soldiers— Flowers for those who loved us, Flowers to their memory, This fair spring day!" https://thenewleafjournal.com/flowers-for-brave-soldiers-memorial-poem/ #memorialday #poem #poetry

May 29, 2023 marks Memorial Day in the United States. Memorial Day is a special occasion for paying respects to American […] Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho An 1895 Poem on Memorial Day and Piece by Theodore Roosevelt The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Memorial Flowers - 1880 Memorial Day Poem Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts "Memorial Day" by Helen Leah Reed Anna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United… How the Forget-Me-Not Flower Found Its Name Eisenhower's 1954 Veterans Day Proclamation  ( 5 min )

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Insani, the visual translation circle behind most of the al|together visual novel translations that I am in the process of reviewing […] Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Going From ONScripter Visual Novel .exe to Native Linux Running ONScripter-En in Linux Visual Novel Directory Running Linux Visual Novels With ONScripter Red Shift Visual Novel Review Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review MIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro A Winter's Tale - Visual Novel Review io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the 137th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perenially 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 published some interesting articles and short posts during the last week. We also added a new section to The New Leaf Journal. We will recap all of that below along with interesting links from around the web and other news and notes. Table of contents Leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the week that was I published five regular articles and eight short posts sinc…  ( 8 min )

I stumbled upon a U.S. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (a component of the Department of Health and Human Services) FAQ on melatonin. One section made me concerned that the feds are using AI to write their FAQs... but I thought of the alternative explanation and decided that AI would actually be the least bad option under the circumstances. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-nccihs-ai-like-melatonin-covid-note/ #nih #melatonin #ai #covid #textualism

On April 28, 2023, the New York Post published an article titled NYC Council eyes tying parking ticket fines to people’s […] Possibly related posts... Seeing Hopkins-Jones II at the Theater The Fallen No Standing Anytime Sign In Brooklyn That Lead By… A Look at ProxiTok, a TikTok Frontend Perspectives From Japan On Watching Movie Credits Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ hBlock and My Attempt to Purchase Health Insurance in New… Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend Justin and Justina 〜 Learn to Bird Some U.S. President Birthday Facts  ( 5 min )

I saw a squirrel in Battery Park eating a French fry. While I was unable to capture a photograph of the French fry squirrel, I did take a picture of a squirrel on a tree. Possibly related posts... Photographing a Squirrel Kiss in Three Acts 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Tranquility at the Foot of the Manhattan Bridge TI-89 Haiku: Boerum Blue Jay and Black Squirrel Black Squirrel in a Tree in Brooklyn The Cows of Bloomingdale's and Macy's at the 2021 NYC Cow… A Brave Little Tree Grows in Manhattan The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Squirrel With Walnut at Brooklyn Bridge Park  ( 6 min )

A May 2020 post inspired by a dictionary usage example for "leaf": "as the trees leaf in May." https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-trees-leaf-in-may/ #dictionary #trees #leaves #leaf #may

I came across an interesting post by Ms. Tracy Durnell on her personal blog supporting the idea of Webmention support for […] Possibly related posts... Substack Notes' Twitter clone war IndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes Enabling Disabled WordPress Pingbacks Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media Calling For More IndieWeb in WordPress The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 5 min )

I review a 3-minute visual novel about a girl who sets out to destroy the planet after making a mistake on her school exam. (Explanation is in context.) Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review Red Shift Visual Novel Review Version history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari Visual Novel Review: May Sky ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review Visual Novel Review: "Summer, Cicadas, and the Girl" Visual Novel Review - Shooting Star Hill  ( 17 min )

New York City's iconic Brooklyn Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Manhattan over the East River, officially opened to the public 140 years ago to the day. I collected original newspaper articles and materials to recount the events of festivities and ceremonies, which involved thousands of revelers and prominent persons, including then-President Chester Arthur. https://thenewleafjournal.com/1883-opening-of-the-brooklyn-bridge/ #history #nyc #brooklyn #manhattan #brooklynbridge

A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Possibly related posts... Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York In Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds On NYC Curfews and Essential Workers A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge's Mysterious Cobweb Lane The Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya… The Awful About Page for Sara Tirschwell's NYC Mayoral… Harry Wilson Wants My Vote For Governor Freedom Tower in the Fog From the Brooklyn Bridge  ( 23 min )

Substack's view that its Notes platform is not a Twitter clone misses the forest through the trees. Possibly related posts... Reviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter Against Twitter as a Content Curator Learning How to Change a Twitter Username The New Leaf Journal Twitter Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review  ( 13 min )

From a Eurasianet report: Uzbekistan is to hold snap presidential elections on July 9, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said, citing the […] Possibly related posts... Uzbek President Mirziyoyev's War and Peace of the Union History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines Benjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888 The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks The 999 Life of Herman Cain Biden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President's Birth Aliens vs Noncitizens - The Anatomy of a Debate Kazakhstan's Constitutional Reform  ( 6 min )

I read an article on Patchstack covering WordPress backup methods. I recommend having more than one way to backup a WordPress […] Possibly related posts... Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal WordPress self-written plugin adventures Pokémon and NFTs The New Leaf Journal 2022 Half-Year Review No "Newsletter" Folders in WordPress Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… Ghostwriter Markdown Editor Review  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 136. We mailed the original on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Newsletter Leaf […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII Saving Internet Archive URLs in Wallabag  ( 10 min )

On December 19, 2022, EL PAÍS published an article by Ms. Laura Camón: Your cat knows you’re talking to it, but […] Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Halloween Cooking and Decorating Tips From 1913 Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) Sowell on Walter Williams and Objective Teaching The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Dialogue: Alpacas, Virus Cures, and Paca Plus An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure Is my cat deaf, or does she just not give a...?  ( 5 min )

From a Catholic News Agency report (May 2, 2023): A Utah bill that is designed to prevent minors from accessing pornography […] Possibly related posts... Productivity Window Shopping and Backlogs An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure Cheap USB-C Hubs and Short-Lasting Tech The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 - 114 Years Later Seeing the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds from Columbia Street… A Second Look at the April New York City Flyover The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Implementing Article Series With WP Post Series Introducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration…  ( 5 min )

From a March 21, 2023 report by Adam Shaw of Fox News: Officials say the Rio Grande Valley Sector — one […] Possibly related posts... Notes on the U.S. Border Patrol's Horse Patrol Noncitizen Nationals as Immigrant Visa Petitioners Aliens vs Noncitizens - The Anatomy of a Debate DHS Horse Appropriations and CBP Horse Patrol Against Chinese Government Propaganda The Hang Glider Citizenship Provision Midjourney Exports CCP Censorship Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Immigration Issues in NYPD Chinese Agent Case  ( 5 min )

Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is a solid, currently-airing anime, based on a Korean novel. I have enjoyed […] Possibly related posts... The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review Using an Amiga OS-Inspired Window Theme In XFCE With XFWM4 Reviewing the Mondrian Theme for KDE Plasma The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Familiar song in Angel Next Door anime The Best Anime Series of 2021 The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Visual Novel Review: "Summer, Cicadas, and the Girl" Visual Novel Analysis - Shooting Star Hill  ( 5 min )

When the photo in one article about a deep sea snailfish does not satisfy deep sea expectations, read a second article. Possibly related posts... An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats IndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Pine Tree Lovers of Takasago Revisiting a Texas sea turtle rescue story RSS as a Facebook Alternative Follow The New Leaf Journal Pixelfed Atom Feed Comment on the NLJ with Hypothes.is The 1895 Homing Pigeon Experiment On the Manoubia  ( 6 min )

Welcome to the 136th 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. I published a good number of new articles last week. Below, I share links to our newest posts, links from around the web, and other news and notes. Table of contents Leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the week that was I published four regular articles and six short-form posts since mailing Newsletter 135. Regular articles Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a…  ( 7 min )

I read a Nintendo Life survey of the best Nintendo controllers. I noted while reading that I had owned and used every controller except one. Somewhat improbably, the "one" is the Wii U Pro Controller, but not the Virtual Boy or NES (101) controllers. Go figure. Having determined that I have the relevant experience to weigh in, I offered my own Nintendo controller takes, but separated into categories... best non-joystick controller (SNES); best joystick controller (GCN/Switch Pro), and best joystick (N64). https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/the-best-nintendo-controllers/ #nintendo #videogames #controller #snes #switch #gamecube #nes #virtualboy #wiiu

Update README.md Add link to NLJ Osmosfeed article.  ( 2 min )

Having read about e-ink monitors for phones, I test using my PocketBook InkPad Color as a color e-ink monitor for my LineageOS phone. Possibly related posts... What is an "Android Alternative"? Reviewing FrogFind: A Search Engine For Vintage Computers Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY The Thin Digital Line Between "Buy" and "Rent" Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… The Misleading DRM E-Book Buy Button DecSync Review  ( 10 min )

On April 22, 2023, Nintendo Life published the results of a reader survey ranking the best Nintendo controllers. The results were […] Possibly related posts... History of the Mario Party Gloves Mario Party's Joystick-Wrecking Rotation Games The Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank On Nintendo's Pro-User Cartridge-First Strategy The Sega Dreamcast Controller Joystick Lateral thinking to extend game console life-cycles EGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke  ( 6 min )

I opined over on Bearblog that there is no clear anime of the year front-runner through the first season and a […] Possibly related posts... The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) The Best Anime Series of 2021 Height differences in anime romances Familiar song in Angel Next Door anime What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. That Longest Year of School Finally Ends The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII  ( 5 min )

Back on March 5, 2023, I shared a report by Mr. Brad Linder of Liliputing about a new 6.7 inch e-ink […] Possibly related posts... Dasung to release e-ink phone monitor The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Review of the Teracube 2e Smartphone The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Help! I Think My TV Is Watching Me  ( 5 min )

An article on a scene from Thornton Wilder's classic 1937 play, Our Town, wherein a girl asks her mother "Am I Pretty?" After pressing her mother to give a "serious" answer, her mother responds "You're pretty enough for all normal purposes." https://thenewleafjournal.com/our-town-pretty-enough-for-all-normal-purposes/ #play #ourtown #literature #parenting #humor

Let me tell you a story about how the news that Ms. Martha Stewart will be one of the cover models for the 2023 SI Swimsuit Issue reminded me of a story from my high school in 2007. Possibly related posts... The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan Takaki's Memories in 5 Centimeters Per Second What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. The July 4 Death of James Monroe At Summer's End - Visual Novel Review The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review  ( 7 min )

From a report on the Nintendo Switch Virtual Console release of Kirby’s Dreamland 2, which was originally released for the Game […] Possibly related posts... Video Game Visuals That Age Well Paying Game Boy Dues For a Nintendo Switch Stadia and the Value of Owning Games Bonner's "In Dreamland" Bedtime Story The Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme The Quarantine Sessions: Covering The Beatles History of the Mario Party Gloves Mario Party's Joystick-Wrecking Rotation Games Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem  ( 5 min )

From Roaming rooster captured by cops in lower Manhattan (NY Post – March 22, 2023): Cops then flocked to the scene […] Possibly related posts... Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York In Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds On NYC Curfews and Essential Workers The Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya… A Rooster Statue in Brooklyn The Awful About Page for Sara Tirschwell's NYC Mayoral… Harry Wilson Wants My Vote For Governor The Arrival of Sparrows in the United States Low Standards For NYC Dating Scene  ( 5 min )

Three years to the day, I published a section introduction and something of a statement of intent for the more thoughtful essays at The New Leaf Journal: "Welcome to The Emu Café." https://thenewleafjournal.com/welcome-to-the-emu-cafe/ #aesthetics #blog #writing #seasons #anecdote

An essay which describes personal blogs as the soul of the web leads me to consider personal blogs as the centerpiece of a social web. Possibly related posts... Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media The Small Web, Artisanal Content, and Humane Design An Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative ATW 〜 Murakami on Bad Social Media Content Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading A Note on Seeing From Along the Ray The New Leaf Journal Twitter A Walk Across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge  ( 12 min )

People who follow me on my main project, The New Leaf Journal, will know that I follow the latest anime series (the ones I can tolerate, at least). I published year-in-review pieces for 2021 and 2022 with my top-six rankings. 2021 Review 2022 Review I published my 2022 review in a timely manner in January 2023. However, I published my 2021 review in April 2022. Fresh off my very late 2021 review, I published a short Leaflet post on April 26, 2022, offering my initial impressions of the first quarter and a third of anime in 2022. I quote from my Leaflet: My clear early-frontrunner for anime of the year in 2022 is the excellent third and final season of Teasing Master Takagi-san. The first two seasons were good fun, but neither was quite anime of the year caliber (although the second season …  ( 6 min )

On using an open source project called Osmosfeed to create a GitHub Pages-powered New Leaf Journal feed aggregator. https://thenewleafjournal.com/introducing-our-osmosfeed-aggregator/ #rss #rssfeed #github #aggregator #osmosfeed

Using GrapheneOS's handy web installer to put the hardened Android Open Source Project fork on a Google Pixel 6a phone. Possibly related posts... Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones Review of the Teracube 2e Smartphone Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013) The Quiet End of Google Bookmarks Creating a Search Engine Shortcut For Google Timer A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…  ( 14 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal CXXXV. I mailed the original on Saturday, May 13, 2023. This newsletter […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 9 min )

I subscribe to the Atlas Obscura  (link to feed). Sometimes it is not quite clear from the description what the link […] Possibly related posts... The American Bee Journal World's Fair Report Against Twitter as a Content Curator Proposals for Fact-Checking Reform Height differences in anime romances The Trees Leaf in May When President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving… The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Babylon Bee on sushi being a prank Using Web Archives To Get Around CAPTCHAs  ( 5 min )

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