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:

How I Self Host

In this short post, I want to talk about my experience with YunoHost, Portainer, and Docker-Compose on my Raspberry Pi, as well as my previous limited experience of self hosting using a Synology DiskStation.

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Tags: Applications Setup Self Hosting

Organising Interesting Stuff

When I started browsing the internet, I remember saving a few select webpages I found interesting into my browser. As time went on though, no only has the web expanded significantly, but the type of content which can be found on the internet has increased. There are recipes, news articles, academia, how to guides, podcasts, videos, newsletters, long-form journalism, tools, RSS feeds, tips and tricks, Reddit threads, and websites which are just plain interesting. Trying to organise all that interesting stuff in ways to not just access it, but be able to save/store it for later use, as well as being able to extract the most important aspects from it, so as to not forget it, has become, for me at least, difficult.

In this post, I’m going to walkthrough where I started on this journey, where I went, and where I am now.

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Tags: Applications Setup Self Hosting

Digital Gardens

While I was writing a post documenting my adventures into organising stuff, I became sidetracked and began to delve into the world of digital gardens. The content is enough to warrant a post of its own, as well as needed to reduce that post’s length!

Here I will walkthrough my journey with Obsidian, Logseq, personal knowledge systems, wikis, and digital gardens, as well as brief forays into Jekyll.

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Tags: Applications Setup Productivity