Jessica @jayeless@toot.cat

Hello all! I'm Jessica, and I've joined this instance because a) it looks nice and b) I've been curious about the Glitch-Soc variant of Mastodon and wanted to join an instance that had it running :) My old/other account is @jayeless@todon.nl, which I'll probably keep around for more political content.

Here, I'll probably post on a range of topics, including technology (I'm interested in #smallweb and adjacent topics, like the #indieweb and #gemini), #languages and #linguistics, #books I read, the occasional thing about #gameing or other forms of entertainment, pictures of #cats and #dogs, life in general, and stuff about the city I live in (Melbourne, Australia). As well as English I speak Spanish, and I've also studied Catalan (I did an honours thesis in #history, on the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia). Gonna leave you with a couple of pics of me and my beloved cat Gidget ❤️

#introduction

Thanks to Robert Rackley on Micro.blog, today I received my invite to try out Arc Browser! Haven't really used it enough yet to form a solid opinion, but so far it's fun and novel. I was relieved to find you can install normal Chromium browser extensions in it – I need my Bitwarden 😅

When the weather was nice on the weekend we took Gidget for some outside time. She spent about 20 minutes on our neighbour’s AC exhaust unit soaking up the sun, then went to a shady spot (not pictured) to cool down for ten minutes, then went to said neighbour’s front porch to camp out there. The whole time she was stealing glances at the next neighbour’s front door, to see if their cat was noticing her assert her dominance 🤣

It's a second blog post in one day! This one is pretty niche; it's about how I tinkered with Keybuild (an app that lets you design custom keyboards in iOS) today to make a Shavian keyboard pane. And also how I edited a couple of my pre-existing panes. Anyway: https://www.jayeless.net/2022/08/keybuild-part-2.html

Made a quick blog post to follow up on a couple of minor things I mentioned last month + sharing a cute story about a local currawong 😊: https://www.jayeless.net/2022/08/quick-life-updates.html

Started a silly little CYOA story (it’s about my cat nagging me for food 😆) in #Ido, using #Twine, tonight. I made decent progress but I’m definitely not going to get it done tonight, so I should not try and just get some sleep instead! It’s defs been a bit of fun, though.

Today's been a beautiful day weather-wise, sunny and 19°. I've been out soaking it up this afternoon, and Gidget did the same from her windowside cat bed – she didn't even have to deal with the wind from there 😆 It's so rejuvenating.

Liked this piece, about how we should take back our cities from being car-centric monocultures: Rewilding Cities

Also saved it as a link post on my blog, where I elaborated a little more on my thoughts, at just enough length that I didn't think I should crosspost it directly to Mastodon 😛

That feeling of power you get when your cat has been nagging for food for three hours and you just go to the kitchen to heat up your own lunch and give the cat nothing 😎 (DW, she had her full breakfast this morning, she's fine)