The New Leaf Journal
thenewleafjournal.com · Group blog · on HN since 2021
The New Leaf Journal is a WordPress site by one author, covering decentralized social media, privacy tools, RSS, and miscellaneous topics.
What HN saysHN sees it mainly as a personal blog; its author describes how it is built and run, and a commenter prefers its text to a video.
15HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Cycling Doping Fallacies2 people · 49 points · first shared 2024 · 104 comments on HN
- 2Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media2 people · 9 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 3Why Vintage Guitars Sound Better2 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 4Amazon Black Hat Seller Scenario2 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 5Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones1 people · 291 points · first shared 2022 · 231 comments on HN
- 6RSS as a Facebook alternative1 people · 237 points · first shared 2021 · 134 comments on HN
- 7Lukol – A “Privacy” Search Engine1 people · 28 points · first shared 2022 · 11 comments on HN
- 8What Is Becovi Search?1 people · 9 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 9Sending SMS Messages from My Computer with XMPP Through JMP1 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 10Against Twitter as a Content Curator1 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11On Review Scoring Systems1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 12Digital Purchases as Indefinite Rentals1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Reviewing the Elephind Newspaper Search Engine1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 14The Dangers of TikTok Stardom for Children1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 15Adding a Carbon.txt File1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
nafnlj · 2023-07-05
https://thenewleafjournal.com/
I started NLJ back in 2020. It is built with WordPress (hosted on Hetzner VPS and managed with Cloudron). I have published more than 800 articles and 350 short-form posts (almost all posts by me, but my friend has published 30something articles). I write about whatever interests me (I tell myself this means there is something for everyone). Common topics include, but are not limited to, tech (digital ownership, open source software, feeds, and my learning Linux), history (usually American or Roman), old books and poems, anime, visual novels (mainly English translations of freeware NScripter/KiriKiri novels), photos from my walks, fictional dialogues, and occasional commentary about life in NYC.
https://memos.emucafe.org/u/2
I am testing out Memos (https://github.com/usememos/memos) for short-form notes and microblog-style posts, but very much a side project next to NLJ. Neat little tool.
jwilk · 2022-05-24
It's much easier and faster to read ~10 lines of text than to watch a 16 minutes video.
[Looks like someone silently updated the submission URL to point to the video. The original URL was: https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/man-uploads-2000000-youtube-videos/…