The New Leaf Journal

On March 21, 2023, I published an article titled Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading. My project there was to provide an account of how a good collection of RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds can serve as a discovery mechanism for interesting articles and resourc

I have learned many things through reading articles and resources on the internet collected through my feed subscriptions and articles linked from articles in my feed collection. I have also learned things through conducting research for my New Leaf Journ

The Nintendo 64, Nintendo's 5th generation home console, just celebrated the 30-year anniversary of its June 23, 1996 launch in Japan (it made it to the United States on September 29 of the same year). Nintendo Life commemorated the occasion with a collec

Robert Birming, an independent blogger, invited bloggers from around the web to participate in community blogging events in June and July. In June he hosted Junited, which encouraged bloggers to share blog posts they enjoy from around the web. July brough

I regularly report on interesting examples of "free stuff" left out for the taking on the sidewalks of Brooklyn. On an evening walk on August 11, 2026, I happened upon a free white HP printer in Brooklyn Heights. It is not uncommon to see free printers, b

On August 10, 2026, the New York Post published an article titled High school football player practiced for an hour with a snake in helmet - until coaches 'shock' discovery. How could I not open such an exciting headline? The article, which also links to

Buzzworthy Introduction On October 9, 2008, Residential Aliens, an online speculative fiction blog, published a story titled A Taste of Honey by Fred Warren. Mr. Warren, who Residential Aliens described in his author bio as having recently retired from th

After seeing web crawlers request carbon.txt in our server logs, I turned to the Green Web Foundation website to create and add carbon.txt to our site.

I demonstrate how to use a small paper clip as a SIM tray ejection tool and compare it to an IFIXIT bit for ejecting SIM trays.

I had planned to try Ubuntu Touch on a Google Pixel 3a XL. But before I installed Ubuntu Touch, I gave Droidian a try after seeing it in the UBports Installer.