It was a snowy February 2026 here in my birthplace and home, Brooklyn, New York City. But while it was snowing outside, I was typing inside, publishing a good collection of new articles and short posts here on The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and over on The Emu Café Social (“ECS”) and The Newsletter Leaf Journal. Let...

I published Subscribing to category-specific RSS feeds in early 2023. As the title of the article suggests, I noted that many websites (including this one) offer author, section, or taxonomy feeds in addition to a main site feed, and that these narrow feeds may be the “right” feed for certain reading and use cases....

Well-Done Intro I like steak, although I do not eat it often (in fact I cannot remember the last time I had steak). But I like steak, and all forms of beef, with a qualification: It must be well-done. I have discovered in life that some raw-steak enjoyers are keenly sensitive about some people preferring that their...

I commemorated Columbus Day in 2023 with a photo post of a pigeon perched atop a Christopher Columbus statute at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. On February 24, 2026, I took a walk in Brooklyn just a day after New York City finished receiving historic snowfall from a blizzard. Before I would happen upon some creative snow...

I was walking through a still-snow-covered Brooklyn Bridge Park on the afternoon of February 13, 2026, when I came across something that I had not expected to see: Geese in the snow. Above, you can see the geese with the Manhattan Skyline in the background. Geese are common sights at Brooklyn Bridge Park. I have...

I published three snowman-themed articles since the end of December, with one covering an actual snowman and two covering a snowman kokeshi doll and snowman cups respectively. Subsequent to my snowman coverage at the end of 2025, New York City has seen two significant snow dumps. When snow falls, some people build...

Shiroi Printer is a freeware horror Japanese visual novel developed by Asaki Yumemishi (published under the banner of Yumemi no Yamai) and published to Freem!, a Japanese platform for freeware games, on May 28, 2018. The vast majority of games on Freem! are only available in the Japanese language. However, Shiroi...

Dave Cowens’ 1980 Retirement and 1982 Comeback I subscribe to Bob Kuska’s From Way Downtown website in my feed reader. The site re-prints old NBA and basketball articles, usually with a brief introduction by Mr. Kuska. On February 15, 2026, he re-printed the retirement article of NBA great and Baskteball Hall of...

Because my day job involves U.S. immigration law, I regularly stay on top of new precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or “the Board”) in my feed reader. On February 13, 2026, I read a Board decision that had been published that same day, Matter of Jin, 29 I&N Dec. 441 (BIA 2026). The...

I read a January 27, 2026 article on Time Extension, a video game website focused primarily on retro games and emulation, titled Apparently, The PSP Counts As A Failure To Some People Now, with “PSP” referring to Sony’s erstwhile PlayStation Portable handheld console, which was officially supported from 2004 to...

I recently had to switch author boxes on The New Leaf Journal because the one I had been using (a widget from the IndieWeb plugin) was causing me some concern behind the scenes.1 While I was in the area, I decided to re-write my short author profile. It occurred to me that despite having published well over 1,000...

I previously reviewed a well-known freeware Japanese visual novel titled Narcissu as part of my al|together visual novel localization review project. Narcissu was written and published by Tomo Kataoka in 2005. Unlike many of the other Japanese freeware visual novel developers of the early-to-mid 2000s, Mr. Kataoka...