Hi, I’m Jessica!

This is my personal website, where I blog about life, ideas, and everything else. There isn’t a pattern to when I post, but I’m liking this “every two to three months” thing I have going on. Either way, you can be pleasantly surprised by subscribing to the RSS feed.

I have profiles all over the Internet; check the links in the sidebar/follow button. I’m most active on Signal (and increasingly IRL), so ask for my username via the other channels.

My current GPG key is 6D71 C504 6A9A 4B98 DAE9 5EE8 BBA3 C03E D204 C805, corresponding to dev at jessicarod, dot com. You can retrieve it via WKD and various keyservers. The easiest way to do that is via your email client, or in the terminal with sq:

# Pull from WKD and the keyservers
sq network search <fingerprint_or_email>
# Trust the cert once you verify it
sq pki link add --cert <fingerprint> --all

Recent posts

🌇 Summer 2025

less than 1 minute read

Sharing a few fun pics (and clips) from this summer.

Vitamin D

2 minute read

Life updates, a year later.

Beware the Ides of March

2 minute read

Five years ago, give or take a day, my university announced that in-person activities were cancelled through the end of the year. I was a freshman, a little ...

Trapdoor

3 minute read

It’s… weird to get a fresh start.

Coming Out

2 minute read

Hi, I’m Jessica! Maybe you knew me by a different name. I wanna talk about that.