Album-cover illustration: a serene blue-haired figure glowing orange-red meditates over a synthwave grid while a child with a vinyl-record halo sits below a starry forest

I commissioned this piece from my good friend Casey Landerkin, who also happens to be my favorite artist. If you like this, you'll love the rest of her work too. Go buy something!

Jesse.ID

Hi 👋 I'm Jesse, a chronically online software engineer. I automate things and build cool stuff professionally. My hobbies are full-stack web development, writing, making music, and studying screencraft. I'm a movie nerd and I've logged 1,689 films to my Letterboxd profile. I love to create stuff whenever I can, and I support art and artists of all kinds. Read more about me if you'd like.

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Music Jul 24, 2026 2 min read

New Music Friday: Sylvan Esso, In Color, Boy Harsher, Saint Clair, Ash Leone

I’ve been going with three artists on the Fridays I remember to post new music so far, but there are five fresh tracks that I was into this week. One of my favorite groups, Sylvan Esso, powered by one of my favorite music producers — Nick Sanborn — dropped a new track this week. Sounds […]

Tech Jul 14, 2026 5 min read

How I Use AI and How I Don’t Use AI

How I don’t use AI I don’t use generative AI to write prose or lyrics. I don’t use it to write blog posts. I don’t use it to write e-mails for me, outside of the occasional auto-complete of what I was going to say anyway. I don’t use it to create music. I don’t use […]

Music Jul 10, 2026 2 min read

New Music Friday: Wishy, Slow Joy, Dev Lemons

This week, I have three tracks from YouTube. One a track by a brand new band to me named Wishy, a 5 piece band from Indianapolis — a good rec from friend Christian. The other two are from Slow Joy and Dev Lemons. I’ve been listening to them for awhile so I’m always happy to […]

Weird Jun 28, 2026 6 min read

Defining My Own Reality

I’ve been having deep discussions with friends of late, and in one of them, I said that I am slowly coming to the realization that anyone, at any time, can just create their own version of reality and their version of it can spread to envelop the world depending on how many people believe them. […]

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Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

No written review.

We're the Millers (2013)

Pretty funny. Recognized multiple memes that I did not know came from this movie. I wish that Nick Offerman and Kathryn Hahn had all of Jennifer Aniston's screen time. She just didn't fit the character she was playing.

Tremors (1990)

No written review.

War of the Worlds (2005)

I saw this when it came out and I was very disappointed, but as has been the case with many movies from the early 2000's that I've revisited recently, I enjoyed it much more on a rewatch. I think I was just on one in the early oughts.

Life of Pi (2012)

One of the better metaphors for religion that I've seen. The visuals in 3D were really great, top tier as far as that goes — especially near the end.

Set! (2021)

If you love niche art competitions based on arbitrary table setting rules pioneered by the trad wives of yore, and now just annoying technicalities getting in the way of Karens and anti-Karens getting ribbons for their Michael's hauls, then this is the doc for you. (The art is actually great. I'm all the way in on this culture now.)

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Jul 26, 2026 · 12:27 AM

Spent the last couple of days rewatching The Last Dance. Remains the greatest sports documentary series of all time. I may be biased because I was a huge Bulls fan when I was a kid and watched every single game mentioned in the doc, including the regular season games, in real time. #Now

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