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:

Glitch

Date: 2023-09-21 | Word Count: 1936 | Reading Time: 10 Minutes

Glitch was a browser based video game launched in 2011 and closed in 2012. The game featured activities such as completing quests, growing plants and cooking food, and there was a levelling up system in place where skills were gained, upgrades earned, and achievements to aspire towards. There was also a trading aspect, where products grown or crafted could be sold for currants, the currency of Glitch. I was a BETA tester of Glitch joining September 2011, and enjoyed my short time there, getting 313 achievements,102 skills, and 101 upgrades.

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Communication

Date: 2023-09-18 | Word Count: 55 | Reading Time: 1

This is my attempt at “pronoun pages” which can be found online. It will list the language I would like people to use when communicating with me.

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Manifesto

Date: 2023-09-04 | Word Count: 2076 | Reading Time: 10 Minutes

In this post, I’ll elaborate on the thinking behind the recent website revamp, 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