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:

Blogging Resources

In my journey of setting up this webiste, I came acrossed plenty of blogging platforms which interested me, as well as some guides I read on setting up websites in Hugo and Jekyll specifically. Here I have collected it all, which can be very useful when I see people on Mastodon ask for blog platform advice!

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Tags: Hugo

Creating An Ambient Music Server

I was recently given a free one year trial to a premium podcast feed which specialised in getting you to sleep. It features bedtime stories for adults and children, reads royalty-free literature, and also provides eight-hour mixes of ambient music, including ASMR rain, gentle piano playing, coffee shop background noise, binaural sounds, and so on.

While being read to doesn’t help me get to sleep, and nor does ambient music actually, I do like listening to various long looped sounds to help me focus during the day and help me unwind at nights. So, as I poked around the podcast feed, liking what I was hearing, I had an idea of archiving these eight-hour mixes to continue listening after the trial has ended, and I’ll go into detail how in this short post.

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Tags: Music Setup

Rest of 2023 (+Looking At 2024)

2023 was overall a good year in terms of exploring who I am, gaining new skills, and trying to adapt to the world around me as an autistic person. However, as the year was coming to an end, I faced health issues which restricted my energy and resulted in many things taking a backseat. This website was one of them, as I had little capability to keep it up to date.

In this long and rambling post, I’ll look back on the year gone, and forward to 2024.

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Tags: Mental Health Personal