The New Leaf Journal
The New Leaf Journal
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The New Leaf Journal is a self-hosted WordPress-powered online writing magazine. I launched the site on April 27, 2020. I created the project to host my own writing and that of my friends, which (as of this date) includes Victor V. Gurbo.
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Back in August, I noticed that a web crawler had requested a “carbon.txt” file (see my recent article on a less friendly web crawler). I had never heard of a carbon.txt file, but I assumed that it would be conceptually similar to the...
Prefatory Note: I send out a newsletter every Saturday. You can learn more on our Newsletter Sign-Up page. Our newsletter is hosted with Buttondown. I was planning to send issue 256 today as scheduled, but I am having technical issues...
I just published a survey of NBA championship defenses from 1983-84 through 2024-25 (I started with 1983-84 because that was the first season the NBA used its current 16-team playoff format). By “championship defenses,” I mean team stats...
I was inspired by a recent article to undertake a survey of NBA title defenses. Below, after an introduction, I will examine the team stats of every NBA championship defense from 1983-84 through 2024-25, finding the best and worse in...
Norton is a well-known commercial antivirus company. It also dabbles in other projects such as cryptomining. Back in 2022, I reviewed Norton Safe Search, a niche Norton service which seeks in integrate its Norton Safeweb reputation...
I published three articles between November 9 and 14, 2025. All three articles were published last week in part because of things I published (or did not publish) on the same day in prior years. November 9: Investigating John Salley’s...
On October 5, 2023, I wrote an article about catching Dragonair in the Safari Zone in the Nintendo 3DS virtual console version of Pokémon Yellow in 2019. This article is intended to be a follow-up to my personal anecdote with new...
The tagline of The New Leaf Journal is Where the leaves are perennially virid. I will concede that some articles are more evergreen than others. But sometimes something I write at one point turns out to be unexpectedly relevant at...
I have published an article and fictional dialogue complaining about the ever-increasing brightness of car headlights in Brooklyn, New York, from the perspective of a pedestrian who regularly takes evening walks. Over on The Emu Café...
John Salley stated that Dennis Rodman refused to guard him in his 1992 return to Detroit after being traded to the Miami Heat. I decided to investigate when a couple of things did not add up.
The solution to setting up AmberElec on my Anbernic RG351V was found in the GitHub issues of a different alternative firmware for the device.
A machine translation mishap from English to Japanese inadverntenly creates an RPG success story on Steam in Japan.
PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. In a short Halloween-themed post, I built it from source and ran it on Linux.
A quote about the dinosaur legacy of birds inspired me to "edit" some of our classic (my description) NLJ bird posts.
I give the audience what I (think?) it wants with coverage of the first two teaser trailers for season two of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten.