Jul 30, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Crown of Shit When I get depressed, it's much easier to forget what matters, usually because of the anguish that comes from it. Sometimes there are triggers, but many times it's nothing; it's just an unpredictab...
Jul 29, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0046: What the heck is Brian up to? A professional update, some new things, a request for listeners, and a reading.
Jul 29, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0046: What the heck is Brian up to? A professional update, some new things, a request, and a reading.
Jul 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. ...
Jul 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
Jul 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
Jul 28, 2026 from The Autodidacts Just being is worthwhile Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant. Other moments are intensely and vividly unpleasant, or, more commonly, unmemorable and weakly depressing for no reason. The types of experience can be...
Jul 28, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal O2A2 2026 Visual Novel Review Project (Part 1/2) Reviewing 11 very short visual novels that were submitted to the Itch.io O2A2 2026 - Only One of Any Asset Visual Novel Jam.
Jul 28, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Tiring One nice thing about being depressed is that it almost feels like I have the luxury to tell God, "No, Lord, turn your back on me. I don't need any favors." Because I'm just so tired and incapable o...
Jul 27, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Black Chasm I think the worst kind of writer is not just one who doesn't read, but one who doesn't go out of their way to read good writing. There are many people with blogs or publications who use writing as ...
Jul 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Evaluating My Nagoya Basho Predictions On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of 2026. To be precise, I picked eight wrestlers to hit double digit wins. Now that the Nagoya Basho has been...
Jul 26, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Reviewing Limerence, an al|together-Inspired Visual Novel I review a new indie visual novel that was inspired in part by the al|together 2008 localization of The Letter, which the author stumbled upon thanks to an article in The New Leaf Journal.
Jul 25, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal ONewSletter Mail Novel 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXC Leafy Intro Welcome to the 290th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form wr...
Jul 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say ...
Jul 25, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Amplifier This post is a submission to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, and the theme is "An album that got you through a hard time." I don't use the Bear platform, but you can't get me to not write about so...
Jul 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15 I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I s...
Jul 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Grains I spent most of yesterday asleep, but my body can't keep me from the page for long. No, I'm back here again today, and I have nothing on my mind really—but I still have to write because, well, you ...
Jul 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Re: The Palantir Manifesto I can't believe I'm this late on reading the Palantir Manifesto, which is a summary of some book Alex Karp published last year. I wasn't going to read that book anyway, and it probably would've mad...
