I am the administrator and editor of two WordPress-powered websites. I post long-form articles on The New Leaf Journal, the online writing magazine where the leaves are perennially virid, and short-form posts on The Emu Café Social. I write about things I am interested in, which includes, but is not limited to: Anime, Brooklyn, Current Events, History, Linux, Open Source Software, Reading, Sports, Video Games, Visual Novels, Walking, Writing, and many other topics. I mainly use GitHub to follow projects and repositories that interest me.
Feed: https//thenewleafjournal.com/feed/ for the full site RSS feed (or /author/naferrell/feed/ for mine). Add atom/ or json/ after /feed/ if you prefer those formats. For any twtxt users out there, you can follow the full site at /feed/twtxt/.
- Cheap Winter Cherries
- Bonus Gifts With Usaburo Snowman Doll
- Miya Snowman Cups From Ten Ichi Mart
- Our Most-Visited Articles of 2025
- Record vs Scoring Margin in NBA Team Analysis
- November and December 2025 at The New Leaf Journal
- September and October 2025 at The New Leaf Journal
- Winter Season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal
- Weathered “Snow King” Sculpture in Brooklyn
Feed: https//social.emucafe.org/feed/ for the full site RSS feed (or /author/naferrell/feed/ for mine). Add atom/ or json/ after /feed/ if you prefer those formats. For any twtxt users out there, you can follow the full site at /feed/twtxt/.
- AI is a Slop Tool, Not Slop Cause
- Seeing the “Snow King” on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue
- Working on Christmas Tina VN Review for NLJ
- Switching From XFCE to Cinnamon on EndeavourOS After Nvidia Issue
- Christmas Eve Colon Memories
- Things I Learned: Supermoon Coming in January 2026
- Things I Learned: Apple’s 2015 iFIXIT Ban
- IFIXIT’s Relatively Inoffensive AI Use-Case
- BPL Renovations in Gerritsen Beach and Carroll Gardens
I created a "social" profile on The Emu Café Social. It has a micropost activity stream which is separate from the main part of the site. You can see it here. It has an ATOM feed if you want to add it to your reader.
Feed: https://buttondown.com/newsletterleafjournal/rss (note this is a newsletter, so you can also sign up by email.
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXII 〜 2025 NLJ NetRtg
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXI 〜 Snow King Year
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLX 〜 The Gingerbread Letter
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIX 〜 Christmas Rivers
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVIII 〜 Compensating
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVII 〜 In moderation
Both The New Leaf Journal and The Emu Café Social support ActivityPub. I have successfully followed myself from Mastodon and Pixelfed. You can follow from:
- @ newleafjournal @ thenewleafjournal.com (remove spaces, only full site profile)
- @ naferrell @ social.emucafe.org (my profile) and/or @ cafe @ social.emucafe.org (full site, albeit it is just me at the moment) (remove spaces)
- @ buttondown.com.newsletterleafjournal @ rss-parrot.net (if you want our new newsletter posts to show up in Mastodon or the like) (remove spaces)
- X: @newleafjournal
- Mastodon: @nafnlj@linuxrocks.online
- Pixelfed: @nafnlj@pixelfed.social
- Minds: @nafnlj@minds.com (can also be followed from Mastodon or the like)
- Bluesky: @naferrell.com
- NOSTR: naferrell @ thenewleafjournal.com or Pubkey (71650bd2a9dca5f39fc51b9623c37d735900c4fbfe9f8cb78256d8a99f58522c)
- Hacker News: nafnlj