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/.
- 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
- Sharing a Stuffed Bird Rescue Story
- BLOB DYLAN Board in Williamsburg
- Atlanta Hawks’ Cancelled “Magic City” Night
- February 2026 at The New Leaf Journal
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/.
- Anime News Network’s Confusing Season Ranking
- Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (4/4)
- Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (3/4)
- Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (2/4)
- Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (1/4)
- Adding Victor V. Gurbo’s YouTube Channel to NLJ Blogroll
- Sony’s Very Long-Term PS3 Support
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-23-26
- Internet Reply Posting
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.
- 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
- Inbox Valentine 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVII
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