About

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My name is Jeena. I'm a software engineer, my email address is [email protected].

I live in South Korea, brew beer, dry meat, play metal and develop games and other software. I'm a hobby photographer and use Mastodon and PieFed.

This website is divided in several parts:

There is the blog for longer essays, I post short notes which are kind of like tweets and I post photos, you can think of it like my private Instagram.

Want to know more about me? Read it on the about page.

Each part of the website has its own Feed which you can subsribe to if you'd like to follow what I phost here.

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What's new?

Every day the Kindergarten of my son is posting pictures to this app and we can see what he was doing during the day. Today this adorable picture came in, looks like four little friends on a big adventure :D

Jeena, about 1 hour ago

A very unexpected upside of self hosting your own communication and social media is that when you travel to china everything slill works even over the Hotel Wifi without a VPN.

I use PieFed, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube, and some more. Yesterday I wanted to call my Family in Germany and tried WhatsApp, Signal to have a christmas call with them. but nothing worked, the only thing which di was Matrix with Element which both my brother and my dad use, my brotherver the matrix.org server and my dad over mine. Finally we could have a call.

Similar with YouTube and PeerTube, I can access my PeerTube instance and watch videos but not YouTube. And next on the list Netflix and Jellyfish, I have some childrens movies accessible on jelkyfish which the kids wew able to watch. But the little one is ok with wattching shorts in chinese :D

And last but not least FaceBook, Instagram and so on, I'm already on PeerTube and Mastodon which I use through my self hosted instances, everything just works because it flies under the radar.

In Japan

over 5 years ago 2020-05-15 17:24:34

My vacation in Japan with Luna.

My wife, first time voter

She was never allowed to vote before

Posted 7 months ago 2025-06-03 12:39:18 by Jeena

I was born in communist Poland, and I remember the sham of a voting process my parents had to go through. Basically, they had to go voting, but there was only one party to vote for, and if you didn't vote or made your vote invalid, you’d get into trouble. So once we moved to Germany, election da...