Jessica Journals

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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:

Bookmarking System

I touched on bookmarks twice in previous posts. The first was with storing interesting stuff, and how I didn’t have a good system, which led to me trying out Raindrop.io, Shiori and Shaarli, Nextcloud Bookmarks, and then Logseq. I was happy with my Logseq setup, but later decided to switch my approach to a Link Garden. Which I was satisfied with, and I do like having a public repository of sorts for my bookmarks. However, I recently became reacquainted with linkding, and it’s got me thinking…

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Tags: Applications Setup Mental Health

Micro Blog Update

As I mentioned in my recent posts, I had a test Micro Blog up to archive some toots from my Mastodon account, but I had only recently managed to populate it with the vast majority of my Public toots. In this short post, I’ll go into my thinking behind the whole endeavour, what the test was like, and why I changed it.

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Tags: Setup Website Hugo

How I Archive Toots

The Mastodon server I use recently experienced some technical issues, which we could all still talk to each other on the local feed (and our toots seem to be reaching people outside of our instance), we could not see toots incoming, and our notifications were also broken.

But, as we could still access our data, many of us backed ours up using the Export function from the preferences section on a web browser. However, once we have our data, what can be done with it? In this post, I’ll go through the process of how I archive my toots using my Mac.

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Tags: Setup Social Media Website