Hello, I'm Julie Sandburg.

I've been on the internet for most of my life. As a child, I used to make little websites about my interests using GeoCities. I kept a self-hosted blog/portfolio for much of the '00s-'10s to share my writing and photography. I enjoy the ability to own my online presence.

I graduated from an arts high school and studied political science and philosophy at various colleges in the American Midwest. Several years later, I began to study cybersecurity as well. Occasionally I sell stickers, clothing, and vintage items online; but most of the time, I'm mothering two young children.

I'm a big proponent of Umberto Eco's antilibrary of unread books, and I'm always excited to learn something new. I have an extensive list of things I want to explore further in the future and things I've placed on the back burner, so I will never get bored.

Studying

Favorite Things

• Frogs (especially Keroppi)
• Hedgehogs
• Tamagotchi
• Furby

My site is inspired by the retro web aesthetics of the late 1990s and early 2000s when I grew up and started using the internet. This site is built with Eleventy, a static site generator. I use a plugin that I created for Eleventy that allows me to easily crosspost from my blog to Gopher and Gemini protocols, because why not?

I don't have public comments on blog posts (yet?) because I couldn't decide which commenting system I hated less. Instead, I have an email form for receiving private feedback.

I was inspired by LiveJournal's "current mood"/"current music" fields because I used to blog there back in the day, so I've recreated that structure within my own blog. I am using kaoanis from Canuck's House of Kaoani as a mood theme with the original 132 LJ moods.

Glitch letters and various other gifs by King Lulu Deer, companion cube and pastel star pixel art by socksyy, and Pikachu construction & other old school gifs from GifCities.

Fonts: Inconsolata, VT323, and Press Start 2P, self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License.