Leaf Buds

Re; Did You Know That Pokémon’s HM ‘Cut’ Could Be Used On Tall Grass? Nintendo Life published an article on an interesting Pokémon HM fact from the early generation games.  Of course, I am a veteran of the original Pokémon games, so I did know the main fact of the article: From Generations 1 to 3, a Pokémon which knew the HM “Cut” could cut down Tall Grass. To be sure, this mechanic is not useful.  If you want to avoid wild Pokémon encounters in the original games, it is […]

I have never been tempted to buy a second-hand graphics card. But apparently some people feel lucky. While I understand that graphics cards became unusually expensive shortly after I bought my current card, one must consider why they became expensive. A big part of the reason that cards became expensive was because they were being brutalized by crypto miners. Many looked past this and took a swing on used cards, only to find that the cards had short second-hand lifespans.  I found this story on Ambient Irony’s daily links for […]

Piper Haywood: RSS category links and an attribution policy From the post: Just added RSS links to many of my categories. They’ve always existed, I just figured it would be nice to include them in the category description. This is a very good idea. Our site, like Ms. Haywood’s, is built with WordPress and outputs feeds for categories and tags by default. While I did note this behavior on our feeds page, I have not made an effort to promote our category feeds. Because I need to write meta descriptions […]

I originally posted this in our now-former “notes” section. After forgetting to port it to our new Leaf Buds section in the first instance, I do so now. On January 6, 2023, Mr. Amit Kumar Gupta shared my article on productivity, production, and productive leisure in his Substack newsletter, AKG’s Weekend Readings Bulletin. I thank him for the unexpected productive share. I bookmarked a couple of other links from his newsletter and added it to my RSS reader so I can see his selection of links every weekend (and maybe […]

Likes https://la-webeuse.com/extensions-statistiques-wordpress-rgpd/. A French website called LA WEBUSE published a comparison of three privacy-friendly analytics solutions for WordPress: Burst Statistics, Koko Analytics, and Matomo. In so doing, they linked to my review of Koko Analytics in the conclusion. I thank LA WEBUSE for the link and return the favor here. Burst Statistics came out well after we were using Koko Analytics. I studied it briefly after reading about it on Hacker News. Burst looks like it comes with similar privacy benefits and more features, but Koko works well for us, […]

Bookmarked https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/nearly-5000-sea-turtles-rescued-from-freezing-waters-on-texas-island. From Texas in February 2021: As bone-chilling temperatures killed power and froze water pipes in homes on Texas’s South Padre Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, residents embarked on an all-out rescue mission: saving freezing sea turtles. At least 4,900 of them. I once had a “microblog” post type here at The New Leaf Journal. It featured in an image in one of our most-read articles. I deleted the post type because it relied on a very old plugin that had some theme integration issues. Prior to deleting […]