After reading that pumpernickel bagels are becoming endangered, I set out to buy, photograph, eat, and write about one to support a tasty cause.
Wherein I caution against using Reddit to complain about AI on Pinterest from the perspective of someone who does not use Reddit and nominally has a site account for Pinterest.
A comprehensive survey of NBA teams that went from missing the playoffs one year to making the Finals the next, with an additional look at how they performed the year after the turn-around, with an eye toward the 2026-27 Spurs.
I share various tools for finding backlinks to one’s own articles, blog posts and other online media.
I learned some time ago that there was a former thenewleafjournal.com. Today, we examine our domain name predecessor.
It has been too long since I reported on a fallen street sign. For the first time ever, we cover (A) a fallen Double Arrow sign and (B) a fallen street sign in Columbia Street Waterfront District.
The trees leaf in May. So too do New Leaf Journal articles. I review the month that was at NLJ and related projects in May 2026.
The Oklahoma City Thunder lost in the 2026 Western Conference Finals despite having a historically great regular season SRS. I examine how the top SRS teams in NBA history performed in the playoffs.
In honor of the 2026 Eastern Conference Champion New York Knicks, I take a look at the longest broken and ongoing NBA Finals droughts.
An article about an outgoing Baidu employee replacing himself with a chatbot reminded me of the time I replaced myself with a classmate in math class. What follows is an anecdote about humanity. Is there a lesson here? I leave that to the readers to decide.
I conclude The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday project with the case for making the blog or writing website that you would want to read.
Today I learned that Spotify is offering AI/LLM generated podcasts. I had thoughts after I considered what I learned about this exciting technological development.
