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/.
- AI Game Worlds and Humane Games
- January 2026 at The New Leaf Journal
- Itch.io Outdated TOTP 2FA App Recommendations
- Making My First Visual Novel: Little White Lies
- My Heroic Car Rescue in Brooklyn Heights
- NBA Champions After Losing MVPs/All NBA Players
- Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator
- Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine
- PixelFade Studio VN Review Project
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/.
- Even the Cheap Computer Cubes Are Out of Stock
- Things I Learned: Berlin’s Road Salt Ban
- Things I Learned: Hedgehogs, Erinaceiane
- Taking Bets On OpenClaw’s New Shiny Object
- Re; The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies
- Posteo Doubles Storage
- Sad Update to ACE Academy and Kaori After Story Reviews
- Blocking Empty UA Outside of Feed Requests
- Unusually Sober Commentary From Dmitry Medvedev
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 CCLXVI 〜 Little White Lies
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXV 〜 Car moving service
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXIV 〜 Footnote edition
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXIII 〜 Wooden snowman
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXII 〜 2025 NLJ NetRtg
- Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXI 〜 Snow King Year
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