The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
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Favorited Improve the RSS experience of your blog readers by Jatan (journal.jatan.space) Introduce people to RSS readers in an accessible way and link to such an explainer on your /feeds page. Both cases shouldn’t assume people know or understand the term. When introducing people you know to RSS readers, don’t...
I am publishing today’s Pook-Emu Bee links a bit later than I had hoped due to having had a little bit more work on my recent assignment, but I now complete a second perfect week before our Saturday break for The Newsletter Leaf Jorurnal. 1. The next frontier in sports betting: the past (Molly Liebergall for Morning...
I am writing an article about Marginalia Search. I wanted to check something on the search results page. Since Marginalia is good at turning up small web and vintage websites and articles, I decided to search for an old school unsung Pokémon. After thinking for about 15 seconds, I settled on Seadra. Seadra seems...
Crunchyroll is investigating a potential hack which may have led to the exposure of customer email addresses. As readers of my anime writing on NLJ may know, I am a Crunchyroll subscriber (I have been a paying subscriber since 2016 and have had a free account since ~2010-11). I now laugh. Joke’s on the hackers. My...
I am winding down a big project today. But I take a brief break to publish our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. I Just Moved From Manjaro Linux To EndeavourOS (Danie van der Merwe at GadgeteerZA. March 25, 2026.) I made the same Manjaro-to-EndeavourOS move back in July or August of 2022. No regrets. Good move. 2. USC...
Replied to Powering Product Discovery in ChatGPT by OpenAI Blog (openai.com) To build these deep partnerships, we want to offer merchants options for how they convert consumers. We’ve found that the initial version of Instant Checkout did not offer the level of flexibility that we aspire to provide, so we’re...
I have another busy “work” day ahead of me, but I won’t let that come between you and today’s Pook-Emu Bee daily links collection. 1. yokohama (Kat at Our Adventures in Japan. March 25, 2026.) Spring hasn’t fully spring in Yokohama, but we can see in the pretty photographs that it is in the progress of springing. 2....
Quoted End is nigh for Watchtower sign: Iconic placard to come down after $340M sale (2017) by Kathryn Brenzel (therealdeal.com) The iconic Watchtower sign, a glowing fixture over Brooklyn Heights, will soon disappear from the skyline. Earlier this month, the Jehovah’s Witnesses filed a permit application seeking to...
Quoted [No Title] by Leon Mika (lmika.org) Not every single blog post needs to read like an article from the Economist. You could, you know, just get to the point. Words of wisdom from Leon Mika about getting to the point in blog posts.To expand a bit (without losing the point), I would advise my fellow internet...
I am busy with work today. But today is a day ending in -day that is not Newsletter Satur-day, so I briefly set aside my business to deliver my not-yet-world-famous Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. FCC bans imports of new routers made in other countries, on national security concerns (Brad Linder for Liliputing. March 23,...
Quoted The Best Anime of Winter 2026 by Kevin Cormack (Anime News Network) Frieren is now the new gateway drug to recommend to potential new anime fans, with the only downside that almost no other anime can hope to measure up. Anime News Network does a “best of” run-down at the end of every anime season. I decided...
Replied to On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) On a personal note, I'm not a writer. I didn't study writing. I'm a silicon architect and a busy dad of three little kids, and the reality is there just aren't enough hours in the day. AI tools give me...
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