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 1,600+ 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. […]

Film Reviews

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Theater Camp (2023)

It's a fun summer camp movie. Not forging any new paths with the story but the characters and performances were all great. If you were a drama kid and really into musicals, it will probably hit half a star harder.

Extra Ordinary (2019)

An Irish absurdist horror-comedy where the story is kind of an afterthought, but all of the actors are so funny that it doesn't really matter. You're just kind of along for the weird ride. Unnecessarily gross at times.

Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997)

This is an incredible documentary that covers one of the last periods of time in America that you could hold an event like this without being sued into the ground by its contestants. Every one of the people featured is an insane Texas caricature ready to torture themselves over a shitty $15k Nissan truck. Most of them want to immediately sell the truck to fix personal life problems that would be solved by like, the basic tier of a socialism subscription.

Sing Street (2016)

This movie never gets old. This is probably the tenth time I've seen it and it's just as good as it was the first time. One of the great 80's movies even though it was made in 2016.

The Reef (2010)

They broke the cardinal rule of Chekhov's sausage and I just can't forgive that kind of thing.

Flatliners (1990)

This looked exactly like Batman & Robin, which was very distracting once I realized Joel Schumacher was the director of both films. I hadn't seen it since the 90's and it was much darker than I remembered.