On learning about the Liquid Death marketing campaign through an article about the campaign instead of the campaign itself.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/missing-the-liquid-death-marketing-campaign/
A short post on walking a tranquil stretch of the Manhattan Bridge on August 17, 2018.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/tranquility-at-the-foot-of-the-manhattan-bridge/
I use Miniflux as my feed reader. When I come across a site I want to subscribe to, I use Miniflux's bookmarklet first. Two recent sites (both built on WordPress) advertised problematic feeds to Miniflux. The first one had a messy feed in that it represented each part of multi-part series as an individual entry. The second had an empty site feed. Fortunately, both sites were easy to follow without any third-party tools. The solution: Look for the taxonomic feeds.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/finding-the-best-rss-atom-feed/
Five years to the day, I wrote my recollections of watching the (dreadful) 2010 fight between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. in a Manhattan movie theater.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/seeing-hopkins-jones-ii-at-the-theater/
I would not trust myself with putting together Ikea furniture. However, I proved to be up to the task of putting together three "DVÄRGTALL" figures from Ikea.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/putting-together-ikeas-dvargtall-figures/
There have been many articles about the "death" and "rebirth" of RSS feeds. I know this because I periodically see them in my feed reader.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-many-deaths-and-rebirths-of-rss/
A short photo post featuring a white pigeon in Forest Hills, Queens, building a nest. Story in three acts (or photos).
https://thenewleafjournal.com/pigeon-nest-building-in-forest-hills/
On August 18, 2020, I spotted a pigeon on a limb of sorts in Brooklyn Heights.
On April 19, 2025, I came across a lone tulip standing bravely in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I took that as a prompt to engage in some tulip photography.
Three years to the day I published an article discussing how many digital "purchases" are effectively indefinite rentals.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/digital-purchases-as-indefinite-rentals/
From 2021, my article suggesting RSS feeds as an alternative to reading news on Facebook. My views (and RSS reader) have evolved, but the central point is evergreen.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/around-the-web-rss-as-a-facebook-alternative/
My end-of-post author box comes from the IndieWeb plugin for WordPress. It displays social icons for some links. For one reason or another, my Mastodon account icon was not showing on one of two sites. I edited the plugin files to make it work. While doing that, I noticed it supports icons for app.coracle.social links. Thus, I now have my NOSTR icon too. Scroll to the bottom of my newest article to see what it looks like.
On May 5, 2021, I published my first of what would ultimately be 29 full reviews of al|together visual novel localizations in The Poor Little Bird. It is a short visual novel (or "digital picture book"), taking about 5-10 minutes to read. While it has its flaws, I like the concept behind the project, if not the execution. It remains free to download and run for Windows and it cam be run natively on Linux with a modern ONScripter-EN build.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-poor-little-bird-a-digital-picture-book-review/
Four years to the day, I published by good friend Victor V. Gurbo's essay sharing his two new covesr of Seven Spanish Angels, both of which are linked from his article.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-quarantine-sessions-seven-spanish-angels/
You can learn more about Victor and his music on his official website.
Back in 2020, my good friend Victor V. Gurbo published an anecdote about his difficulties having a microphone delivered to him.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/please-ring-the-doorbell-a-delivery-story/
A miniature article about a miniature stop sign seen in the scenic Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens.
One year to the day, I published a full review of the second season of the Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki anime. Overall impression: It has its moments, especially in an excellent episode 8, but I came away somewhat disappointed that the second season represented a step back from the first (my review of the first season is linked from the S2 review).
https://thenewleafjournal.com/bottom-tier-character-tomozaki-s2-review/
Back in 2001, I read an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly wherein the magazine had an exciting story about Sega selling prototype Sega Neptune consoles for $199. Alas, this was the April issue.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/egm-2001-sega-neptune-april-fools-joke/
Back in 2021, I wrote a guide to domain-specific searches (I called it site-specific at the time) on DuckDuckGo. Primary use-case? Full text searching on Project Gutenberg.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/performing-site-specific-searches-with-duckduckgo/
One year to the day, I wrote an article about considering "purpose" in organizing a collection of RSS, ATOM, and/or JSON feeds in a feed reader. I continue to apply the ideas in the article so much that my feed organization set-up is different now than it was when I published the article.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/evaluating-purpose-in-organizing-feeds/
Seen on Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn across the street for Brooklyn Borough Hall: the NIXON Uniform Service & Medical Wear truck.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-nixon-medical-truck-on-court/