Jessica Journals

Welcome!

Hello! I'm Jessica, and welcome to Jessica Journals, to my little home on the internet! A cartoon image, from the shoulders up, of a curly brown haired white woman wearing glasses, a purple top, and gray dungarees. Behind are large stripes in black, gray, white and purple, with faint stars.

This is a website where I write about various interests of mine, mostly involving various aspects of techonology including self hosting, productivity and applications.

However, I have recently expanded to include more interests of mine, taking note from the resurgence of websites inspired by those from the 1990s and 2000s, the era I began participating online.

The content has been organised into a series of rooms, as if this website were a house. You can click on “Rooms” in the navigation bar above to find out more about the rooms and what is inside of them. Posts can also be navigated through the “Tags” page if you prefer instead, or by clicking on “Posts” which lists all the posts chronologically, both also found in the navigation bar. Lastly, “Recent Changes” of the last ten updated posts has been listed below.

Recent Posts:

Self Hosting - June 2023

In a previous post made last year, I spoke about how I self host, and the applications I have chosen. Since then, changes have been made, and I thought it would be interesting to do a quick update to see what has stayed, what has been replaced, and what has been removed, following briefly up on my most recent post where I have set up a VPS to dabble with, as well as touching on a new Now page I have recently added to this website.

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Tags: Applications Setup Self Hosting Website

The Fediverse

Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, there has been a significant rise in popularity of Fediverse applications and services, with Mastodon being the most prominent of them. In this rambling and disjointed post, I’ll go into my experiences with the Fediverse, the accounts I have, dabbling in selfhosting my own services, and various positives and negatives of them.

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Tags: Applications Social media

Eurovision 2023

In something completely different, I’ll repost my thoughts I wrote on my Calckey server about Eurovision 2023. I decided to put it all here rather than on the micro blog because, well, this isn’t a micro sized post!

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Tags: Eurovision Music