The New Leaf Journal

The Board of Immigration Appeals published a precedential decision on issues related to marriage fraud investigations. I noticed it published the decision on Valentine’s Eve.

I take a look at the top-three market share in North America for home consoles sold in North America by generation, beginning with the NES-dominated generation 3 and going through Switch’s superlative generation 9.

NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell answers eight questions presented in a Ava’s Space’s Bear Blog blog questions challenge (with one question modified for broader applicability).

Reviewing Christmas Tina, an interesting visual novel set in Tokyo in the late 1980s with Chinese and Japanese voice acting written by Tomo Kataoka and produced by a Chinese studio.

A blog post against defining the indie web by its enemies prompted me to make the positive case for making the positive case for good and humane tech.

I learned about Project Genie and similar “world building” AI tools. While I suspect their best use will be generating slop for social media consumption, I take my critique as an opportunity to examine humane game development concepts.

Join me in reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal, Emu Café Social, and Newsletter Leaf Journal in January 2026 (perhaps with the pictured hot chocolate).

I noticed that Itch.io recommends TOTP 2FA apps for BlackBerry and Windows Phone. This is notable in that I noticed this on February 1, 2026.

N.A. Ferrell discusses developing the first-ever New Leaf Journal visual novel, Little White Lies, in collaboration with singer-songwriter Victor V. Gurbo.

The story of how I helped a lady move her car out of a very snowy parking spot in Brooklyn Heights.

Every instance where an NBA player wins an MVP or makes an All NBA team with team X, leaves team X, and is still active and playing for a different team when team X wins a championship.

I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal’s homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki’s QR Code Generator on GitHub.