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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Between September 2020 and December 3, 2025, I had been unable to get a consistent HDMI ARC connecting working between my TCL Roku TV (model 55S25S) and my Yamaha ATS-1070 soundbar. I have touched on this failure in several articles centered on using an optical audio cable connection instead of HDMI ARC. I finally...
In this article, I will follow a guide from IAB Tech Lab to create an Ads.txt file for a site which does not have authorized advertising system records, which is the case for The New Leaf Journal (we are proudly ad-free). My article comes with a prefatory story, but you can jump to the solution if you came here just...
The following is a dialogue between Justin and Justina, two fictional Brooklyn-based friends whose dialogues feature regularly in The New Leaf Journal. You can find all of their discussions in our Justin and Justina dialogue directory. In today’s dialogue, Justin and Justina are walking in Brooklyn after having just...
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 humans.txt file I wrote about in November 2022 (and similar to the ubiquitous...
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 with Buttondown. Not content to wait for support, I decided to publish the...
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 for teams defending their championships. These stats include relative defensive...
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 various statistical categories for the regular season and playoffs. Project...
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 service with a search engine. I did not review Norton in the sense that I used it for...
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 Return to DetroitI had originally planned to publish this article on November 10....
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 information that I have since learned about Dragonair in the classic Pokémon Yellow....
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