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/.
- Toothpaste Expiration Dates
- The Proper Place For Articles and Blog Posts
- Looking at Moji, an Emoji-only Chat App
- Axe, Enchanting Musk, and Muskrats
- Uncle Susan Graffiti in Carroll Gardens
- Introducing N.A. Ferrell’s NLJ Blogroll
- My Recollection of Kobe Bryant’s 81
- Happy Cleaners Cargo Trike in the Rain
- Jackie Harris’ Fruitmobile Seen at Houston Hobby
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/.
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-01-26
- The Ever-Present Old Internet
- 2026 is the Year of the Windows Desktop(TM)
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-31-26
- Re; Respond, Don’t Create
- Retro Re; On Ditching AMP
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-30-26
- “What if the [AI] bubble bursts?”
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-28-26
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.
- Enchanting email 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIII
- Verily vernal 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXII
- White Day Present 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXI
- Snow camera 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXX
- Comeback printer 〜 Newsletter leaf journal CCLXIX
- Sixth generation 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVIII
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