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:

My Keyboard

In today’s post, I’m going to be discussing my current keyboard, how I decided which one to get, which features I cared about, and why I felt I needed to change from a standard full sized membrane keyboards I’d had most of my life.

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024 Hardware

PearCleaner

Fully uninstalling applications on a Mac can be a bit difficult, simply dragging the .app file into your Trash and then emptying it usually leaves behind many files and folders, and if you try to reinstall later (perhaps uninstalling and reinstalling for the application to behave as brand new) the .app may try to reconnect with the old data.

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024 Mac Applications

PTSD

Something that has been bothering me these past two weeks has been an increased sensitivity to sounds, which sets off my audible-based PTSD triggers. It has resulted in me feeling overall very anxious and unable to fully relax. My sleep has worsened, which has made me feel like I’m more susceptible to these sounds affecting me, creating a loop where I need more sleep to be more resistant to them, but my anxiety is making my sleep worse.

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024 Mental Health

So, About WebMentions...

A couple of days ago, as I was writing a post about Linux, I went back to an old post of mine about Linux Mint in order to grab the URL and check a few details. As I scrolled down to the bottom, I saw a section at the very end:

WebMentions

What is a WebMention? - Send a WebMention

No WebMentions found.

And my eyes narrowed, because although I knew I had set up WebMentions, it not being something you do accidentally, it dawned on me that I could not remember the recent posts having this section at the end.

So today I’ll discuss what has happened here, and ponder if I want to actually fix it?

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024 Website IndieWeb Hugo Mental Health