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/.
- April 2026 at The New Leaf Journal
- Blogging Promises, Schedules, and Burnout
- Sliwa for NYC Mayor Lawn Signs Seen in May 2026
- Blogging and the Niche Question
- Belleville (NJ) Fire Seen From Red Hook (Brooklyn)
- Inflatable Mother’s Day Flowers in Brooklyn
- Some Benefits of Blogging and Writing Online
- Memories – Recording Mario Kart: Double Dash on VHS
- Weathered White Brooklyn Banana Bench
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 05-15-26
- Weighing Large Owls
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-12-26
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-11-26
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-08-26
- Learning About Preserving Strawberry Freshness
- Writer’s Take on Not Wasting Readers’ Time
- Justice Thomas Moves Into Second
- Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-07-26
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.
- Niche bouquet 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIX
- Weathered letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVIII
- They once called me coach 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVII
- 83 TI-89 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVI
- Bunny March 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXV
- Unexpired :o 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIV
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