N.A. Ferrell @nafnlj@linuxrocks.online

On resolving a custom post type permalink error in WordPress.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/fixing-a-wp-custom-post-type-permalink-error/

#WordPress #Permalinks #CustomPostType #newleafjournal

Reviewing a short comedic visual novel: Instant Death! Panda Samurai.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/instant-death-panda-samurai-review/

#visualnovel #doujin #insani #videogames #newleafjournal

A review of ProxiTok, an alternative frontend for a certain abomination.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-look-at-proxitok-a-tiktok-frontend/

#proxitok #frontend #opensource #foss #newleafjournal

The story of Owney, who was (probably) the world's most well-traveled mail dog.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-contemporaneous-account-of-owney-the-mail-dog/

#history #ushistory #uspostal #owney #newleafjournal

An 1882 poem on apple blossoms in the springtime.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/an-1882-poem-on-apple-blossoms/

#apple #spring #flowers #poem #newleafjournal

A short piece on using Mullvad's free public DNS service (I still use it on my Nexus 7).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/setting-up-mullvads-free-public-dns/

#mullvad #dns #newleafjournal

Testing out using Bearblog to syndicate my weekly newsletter.

https://newleafannex.bearblog.dev/newsletter-leaf-journal-lxxxiv/

#bearblog #newsletter #buttondown #writing #newleafjournal

Having read that we're in the middle of an anime "remake boom," I call for a new version of the classic Kare Kano.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/calling-for-a-new-kare-kano-anime/

#anime #karekano #newleafjournal

A short story on the time it came to attention that my web browser's version date was 1.19.70.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-harmless-date-error-in-the-bromite-repository/

#fdroid #bromite #android #eos #newleafjournal

My review of a privacy-friendly local analytics plugin for WordPress, Koko Analytics.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/koko-analytics-wordpress-review/

#opensource #wordpress #foss #analytics #newleafjournal

Exploring a Pokémon urban legend I heard from a classmate in 1999 - Bill's secret garden (or cave?).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/bill-secret-garden-pokemon-urban-legend/

#pokemon #videogamehistory #gameboy #newleafjournal

"Why is it, said a friend to me one day, that the factory girls write so much about the beauties of nature?"

(From an early-1840s essay by a New England weaver.)

https://thenewleafjournal.com/excerpts-from-a-weavers-reverie/

#history #writing #dreams #weaving #newleafjournal

In praise of how Minds, an alternative FOSS crypto-based social media platform, allows for adding invisible hashtags to posts. (The crypto however...)

https://thenewleafjournal.com/how-minds-social-gets-hashtags-right/

#minds #socialmedia #hashtags #UX #newleafjournal

A collection of Project Gutenberg sources on the (debatable) last Emperor of Rome in the West, the aptly-named Romulus Augustulus.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/project-gutenberg-sources-on-the-life-and-reign-of-romulus-augustulus/

#history #rome #romanempire #newleafjournal

That time my glass cannon mage in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, turned out to be tankier than I expected.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/my-glass-cannon-is-tankier-than-expected-lysithea-fire-emblem-story/

#FireEmblem #FE3H #videogames #nintendoswitch #newleafjournal

Reviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter from the perspective of using it to keep a Twitter account updated without touching Twitter.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-the-mastodon-twitter-crossposter/

#mastodon #twitter #crossposter #foss #newleafjournal

In June 2020, my NLJ colleague Victor V. Gurbo reviewed three sets of vintage guitar strings that he applied to three guitars from his collection.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-three-boutique-guitar-strings/

#guitars #vintageguitars #music #newleafjournal

On Anna Jarvis and the origin of Mothers Day in the United States and Australia.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/anna-jarvis-and-the-origin-of-mothers-day-in-the-united-states/

#history #ushistory #mothersday #annajarvis #newleafjournal

On one of my favorite scenes from my favorite movie - Takaki's memories in 5 Centimeters Per Second.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/takakis-memories-in-5-centimeters-per-second/

#anime #movie #makotoshinkai #newleafjournal

In 2020, my good friend and colleague, Victor V. Gurbo, reviwed (and performed) a classic folk ballad on love and madness, Love Henry.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-quarantine-sessions-love-henry/

#music #folk #bobdylan #victorvgurbo #newleafjournal