June 2023 at The New Leaf Journal

Today marks the end of June 2023. As we move into the heart of summer, we take a break to review the month that was in New Leaf Journal articles. Below, you will find our regular monthly recap of new June articles, most-visited posts, and other news and notes.

June New Leaf Journal Leaves

Below, you will find our June 2023 posts sorted by post type.

Regular June 2023 Leaves

This is our 14th and final full article of June 2023. Below, I list all of our regular June articles in chronological order. I designated three articles as my editor’s choice selections of the month.

• June 2: From Murena Teracube 2e to Pixel 3a XL with LineageOS
  The story of how my daily driver phone came to be a Google Pixel 3a XL running LineageOS.
• June 5: Reviewing Keiki Launcher (Android)
  My comprehensive review of a quaint free and open source app drawer for Android.
• June 9: Using Nostr Verify for WordPress NIP-05
  A guide to using a WordPress user account to verify a Nostr keypair.
• June 9: Collage – Visual Novel Review [Editor’s Choice]
  My review of one of the best and most unique al|together visual novel translations.
• June 12: Keeping WP Comment Blacklist Up to Date
  Dovetails with the return of our Guestbook…
• June 14: ESPN States Tim Duncan was “Born Overseas”
  Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, with an emphasis on U.S.
• June 16: Deploying NoPaste to Surge.sh
  There are also other ways to deploy NoPaste.
• June 16: The Letter (Tegami) – Visual Novel Review
  Reviewing an al|together 2008 visual novel about family.
• June 21: The world to reverse – Visual Novel Review
  A review of the two dark visual novels which make up The world to reverse.
• June 22: Against camping in ATM vestibules
  Because apparently some people miss the problems.
• June 23: Running Yuuki!Novel Ver of Tegami on Linux [Editor’s Choice]
  Trying a different version of The Letter on Linux.
• June 26: Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo? [Editor’s Choice]
  Veering into NBA revisionist history.
• June 27: 1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft
  The story of how a throw-away trade in 1997 cost the Grizzlies the number two pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.

Leaflets and Leaf Buds

I published 21 short-format Leaflet and Leaf Bud posts in June. You will find all of them below.

• June 2: On Android-to-iOS anecdotes (I offer the Android-derivative perspective)
• June 3: Radicale-DecSync AUR issues (Now resolved)
• June 4: PSA on Bromite and /e/ OS’s Browser (One of two short format posts which started as a full article prompt)
• June 5: Similarities between Moldovan and Romanian (My reporting is second hand since I do not know Moldovan or Romanian)
• June 6: Baseball, home runs, and temperatures (A likely story)
• June 7: RSS as a social media alternative (In what sense though?)
• June 9: Add Pingback Support to WordPress Pages (A short guide)
• June 11: Trying a Memos Server (Still in use)
• June 12: Enter difference between yay and dnf (Awkward title, leaflet is about how the enter key works)
• June 13: WordPress Webmention Plugin Discovery (Still have not revealed to the masses…)
• June 15: hBlock blocks Washington Times sign-in (Fortunately not an issue for me)
• June 16: Peanuts and raisins (A good snack)
• June 18: The Dangers in My Heart gets S2 (I’m looking forward to it)
• June 19: Reddit wars and precious John Oliver memes (Not funny…)
• June 20: On reading and organizing articles (2013) (Interesting, but too many services)
• June 20: Flushing Redis to clear deleted comments (WordPress-Redis tips)
• June 26: Wild pigs swim in the sea (Where else would they swim?)
• June 27: Spare “I Voted” sticker for 2023 (I didn’t fall behind in 2023 without a primary)
• June 29: Encouraging public day-drinking (Let’s not…)
• June 30: Kevin Durant’s Twitter battles (A case of an article eventually turning into a Leaf Bud)

Guestbook

I re-introduced The New Leaf Journal Guestbook with a fresh About page. See both below:

• Guestbook
• About the Guestbook

We did not receive any real comments in June, but the spam bots were very active.

Newsletter

I mailed four newsletters in June. You will find links to the syndicated versions below:

• 138
• 139
• 140
• 141

Most-visited articles of June 2023

I have taken to publishing a list of our 24 most-visited articles at the end of each month. All statistics come courtesy of our local, privacy-friendly analytics solution, Koko Analytics (see review). I will give our 12 most-visited articles feature billing on a table and list spots 13-24 in a more simple manner.

Rank	Title & Link	Author	Date	April
1	The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei	NAF	3.14.21	3
2	Heights in “The Dangers in My Heart” Anime	NAF	4.2.23	7
3	Peekier Search Engine Review	NAF	2.26.22	1
4	Tiki paralogue trick in Fire Emblem Engage	NAF	2.3.23	2
5	The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 – Statistics and Analysis	NAF	1.18.22	6
6	Height differences in anime romances	NAF	3.22.23	NR
7	The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime	NAF	5.6.21	10
8	Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013)	NAF	7.5.21	9
9	The Last Stand of Constantine XI	NAF	5.30.20	8
10	The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho	NAF	4.18.21	NR
11	How the Forget-Me-Not Flower Found Its Name	NAF	3.11.21	5
12	An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search	NAF	10.18.22	15

13-24: 13 Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices (2021) (NAF: 11.28.21). 14 Review of /e/ – An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones (NAF: 11.21.21). 15 Biden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President’s Birth (NAF: 4.29.22). 16 The Sega Dreamcast Controller Joystick (NAF: 6.14.22). 17 The Chinese Dragon Gang Origin Story (NAF: 10.22.22). 18 Peekier redirects to Kagi Search (NAF: 5.2.23). 19 Familiar song in Angel Next Door anime (NAF: 2.6.23). 20 Persona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam) (NAF: 11.15.20). 21 The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover’s Pet Opossum (NAF: 11.30.21). 22 Ghostwriter Markdown Editor Review (NAF: 10.7.21). 23 Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) (NAF: 7.28.21). 24 Futaba Igarashi’s Hair Is Naturally Green? (NAF: 11.23.21)

In good news, Bing is (supposedly) reviewing our now six-month ban from the second biggest English language search index. In bad news, June 2023 somewhat showed why we could really use a return from our wholly unexplained and unjustified Bing ban. Our Google hits flagged a bit in June with the decline in some of our most-viewed articles of the last few months. While our overall June totals were not too far off the rest of our 2023 pace, they were far enough off that June 2023 represented our weakest month in terms of total page views (according to Koko, at least) since September 2021. Our top 12 featured two articles making their top-12 debuts at positions 6 and 12, and one (my very long essay on Otho) making its first appearance in more than two years. My tsuki ga kirei article topped our June ranking for the third consecutive year and earned its first monthly top spot since January.

Most-visited articles of April-June 2023

Below, you will find our most-visited articles of the three-month period from April to June (change in rank from March-May period in brackets).

1. Tiki paralogue trick in Fire Emblem Engage (NAF: 2.3.23) [NC]
2. The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei (NAF: 3.14.21) [NC]
3. Peekier Search Engine Review (NAF: 2.26.22) [NC]
4. The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 – Statistics and Analysis (NAF: 1.18.22) [NC]
5. Heights in “The Dangers in My Heart” Anime (NAF: 4.2.23) [+8]
6. Biden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President’s Birth (NAF: 4.29.22) [NC]
7. How the Forget-Me-Not Flower Found Its Name (NAF: 3.11.21) [NC]
8. Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013) (NAF: 7.5.21) [-3]
9. The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime (NAF: 5.6.21) [-1]
10. The Last Stand of Constantine XI (NAF: 5.30.20) [+2]
11. Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices (2021) (NAF: 11.28.21) [NC]
12. The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY (NAF: 2.23.23) [-3]
13. Height differences in anime romances (NAF: 3.22.23) [NEW]
14. Review of /e/ – An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones (NAF: 11.21.21) [-4]
15. An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search (NAF: 10.18.22) [NEW]
16. The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten – Anime Review (NAF: 3.25.23) [+7]
17. The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho (NAF: 4.18.21) [NEW]
18. The Sega Dreamcast Controller Joystick (NAF: 6.14.22) [-1]
19. The story of our Bing blacklisting (NAF: 4.25.23) [NEW]
20. Peekier redirects to Kagi Search (NAF: 5.2.23) [NEW]
21. Persona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam) (NAF: 11.15.20) [-7]
22. A Follow-Up Post on the Meaning of “Blob Dylan” (NAF: 4.12.21) [+2]
23. Ghostwriter Markdown Editor Review (NAF: 10.7.21) [-7]
24. The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover’s Pet Opossum (NAF: 11.30.21)

Conclusion

June was a somewhat slow month at The New Leaf Journal, but it did see the return of our Guestbook and major progress toward completing our al|together visual novel review project. I look forward to making July a bit busier, and perhaps we will have some good news on the search engine indexing front.

Until July 31, 2023!