Leaflets

The maintainer of IzzyOnDroid, an free and open source application repository for Android that can be added to F-Droid, posted a PSA on Mastodon about a certain SMS application on the Google Play Store called Mood SMS. This SMS app, which has been downloaded more than 10,000,000 times, contains 35 trackers. All for an SMS app… I recommend QKSMS as a privacy-friendly alternative to […]

I previously wrote about our humane XML sitemap. While having a human-readable XML sitemap is nice, it is not particularly useful for navigating The New Leaf Journal (see my running article list for finding content). To help visitors navigate our growing online magazine, I created a new Sitemap page with a neatly organized list of links to every area of our site.

I saw a large fly in my room. This is the first fly that has made it into my place in several months. One reason I do not get those horrible creatures is because I cannot stand them and I make an effort to keep them out.  I am not sure if I will sleep tonight. I wish house centipedes took care of those.

I posted a review of an excellent free and open source digital business card creator called EnBizCard. For the review, I created my own HTML digital business card and followed the on-site guide for adding it to The New Leaf Journal. You can find my contact information via business card here. This is a good method of shairng The New Leaf Journal with friends from a mobile device.

Our local privacy-friendly analytics solution, Koko Analytics (see my review), picks up some referrer information (where did a visitor come from?). I found that the referrer info is generally accurate when I compared my own stats with the stats in the Google Search Console. One curious thing that I have found is that we get many more hits from DuckDuckGo than Bing, despite the […]

Find me another website where you will find content about classic American plans, free and open source apps, early 20th century ads, late 19th century poems, squirrel pictures, and anime among the six most recent articles.  We have something for everyone.  Since the anime is being bumped tomorrow for another free and open source app review, I figured that the time was ripe to […]