The New Leaf Journal

I respond to the following prompt: “What’s a well-liked anime that you didn’t really like?.” After defining the question, I work through a list to find a good answer.

Wherein I consider the subject of full archive RSS/ATOM feeds and explain why you should not expect to find more than 1000 New Leaf Journal articles in your inbox upon subscriibing.

Let’s try this again: New Leaf Journal Guestbook version 3.

In our longest month-end review article yet, I not only review our 20 newest articles and most-visited posts of the month, but also discuss the broad aesthetic re-design of the site that I mostly completed.

A story about EA considering shoving ads into its AAA games led me to remember a time when you could buy an EA game and own it without ads. That gave rise to other memories.

I suggest a very minimalist way to scroll through our most recent 200 regular articles.

After writing numerous articles about the A Sign of Affection anime, I saw an ad for the manga on my Kindle lockscreen. While there is no conspiracy, I have a story.

Testing whether six degrees of NBA All Star Game teammate separation from LeBron James takes us to one of the 24 original NBA All Stars from the 1951 game.

A photo and history post on a little fireboat in Brooklyn Bridge Park named after former New York governor Alfred E. Smith.

I discuss arguments for and against relying on full-text RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds for reading and advocate thinking about how best to read material from different websites.

I examine each case in U.S. history where there were consecutive presidential elections involving a candidate running as the incumbent president.

Explaining how I implemented boolean search on my WordPress site using built in filter hooks for the Relevanssi Light plugin.