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:

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

Migrating To EndeavourOS

In my previous post, I spoke about running Linux and how it may not be for everyone, pointing to myself as someone who has Linux installed on their laptop, but not being used their day-to-day operating system, also known as a distro, on their desktop. However, I did not go into which distro I am currently using on my laptop, having written in the past about using Linux Mint. In this brief post, I’ll go into which I left Mint, where I went to, and then why I’ve now landed on EndeavourOS.

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Tags: Setup Linux WeblogPoMo2024

To Do Lists

Throughout the past decade or so, I have dabbled with using “to do” applications with limited success due to either a limiting feature set, nagware in free versions, or me simply forgetting about it. In this post, I’ll go into apps and services I tried out in the past, what worked for me more recently, and where I am at now, having successfully implemented a functioning setup I use and don’t forget about, as well as having a brief discussion on how I manage and access my calendars.

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Tags: Applications Setup Productivity WeblogPoMo2024