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:

Dashboards

Upon entering the world of self-hosting, one of the first things I saw when browsing around were the fancy dashboards people had linking to all their applications and services. While I’d dabbled in fancy start pages in the past, these had been limited to add-ons within my Firefox browser, and were not (at least, at the time) accessible on mobile devices. In this short post, I’ll very briefly go into the various applications I tried, and explain my current setup.

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Tags: Applications Setup Self Hosting

Website Revamp 2023

For those who have been here before, you may have noticed some changes to the website. There has been a revamp of the website, so in this post, I’ll briefly discuss what changes I made, how they were done, and why.

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Tags: Website Hugo

Reorganising Everything

We are back here again, reflecting on what has changed in my set up for organising interesting stuff nearly a year on from this original post, as well as updates to my note taking process.

I have learned a lot during the past year, about technology and about myself, about how I function and work. This has resulted in changes to my workflow.

Firstly, my love of Markdown has driven a lot of these changes, so I’ll start there.

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Tags: Applications Setup Hugo Website Self Hosting

The Rest of 2022

2022 was a complex year for me. On the one hand, I grew significantly as a person as I tried new things and learned much more about myself, but on the other hand, I struggled with illness, loss, anxiety and depression. This combination resulted in this blog taking a backseat.

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Tags: Mental Health Personal