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:

openSUSE Leap 16

Date: 2026-04-16 | Word Count: 1267 | Reading Time: 6 Minutes

I’ve recently made a change in the operating system running on my laptop, and I thought I’d explain what happened there in this short post.

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Tags: Setup Linux

Audio Setup - 2026

Date: 2026-03-19 | Word Count: 3579 | Reading Time: 17 Minutes

Last year, I wrote about reorganising the hardware side of my music setup, along with a few software changes. However, shortly after that post, I started to experience some issues and decided an overhaul was already needed. So! In this post, I’ll go into what went wrong, the various ideas I explored, what I landed up with, and why this is now titled Audio Setup and not Music Setup.

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Tags: Setup Self Hosting Music Linux

Manifesto 2026

Date: 2026-03-12 | Word Count: 2097 | Reading Time: 10 Minutes

I last wrote my website’s manifesto in 2023, and due to the recent revamp, I thought I ought to provide an updated version noted changes made since. I don’t believe there are too many changes, so the vast majority of text here is repeated from before, but enough change has happened to warrant an update.

For those who have not read the first manifesto, this post elaborates on my thinking, and stating more explicitly the theory and principles which influenced my decisions in how the website should function and why. As such, it is a post less on the technical side of things, and more on the philosophy.

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Tags: IndieWeb Accessibility Web 1.0 Website