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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Code Aug 24, 2026 6 min read

My friends and I take turns picking movies to watch. I converted our crappy spreadsheet into a whole ass website.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been watching things over Discord on a nearly nightly basis with my friends Felicia and Beth. Sometime in March of 2025, we welcomed our friend Casey as a fourth to our nightly “watchies” group. Casey and I have similar tastes in movies, but Beth, Felicia, and myself have wildly […]

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 […]

Film Reviews

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American Movie (1999)

There is not a single person who is normal in this film. This is the purest and most insane form of lightning in a bottle that I can ever recall seeing. Everything is so real, and so weird, and so fucked up. Everyone had to be exactly how they were for their entire lives — and all be in the same town — so that this unfettered chaos could come together into something just cohesive enough that you can't believe what you're watching is real life. It's a perfect documentary.

Dust Bunny (2025)

I'm a sucker for a Bryan Fuller project and I'm a fan of Mads Mikkelsen. I knew this was going to be a good time and I wasn't disappointed. The cinematography stood out, of course, but the score was also very fun. The pacing was a little slow but I kind of want everything to be 90 minutes without much wiggle room.

Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)

It was better than I thought it would be. The video game style animation made it feel like a very long cutscene and when I'm playing games, I instinctually skip every cutscene that I encounter. The gunshots were distractingly loud, so if you're into protecting your hearing, be sure to lower the volume during the action scenes.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

No written review.

Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer (2019)

No written review.

Class Action Park (2020)

No written review.

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Aug 25, 2026 · 1:19 AM

Just finished creating watchies.jesse.id for my friends and I to track our movie picks rotation with. This will truly be one of the most lopsided effort-to-use ratios of my life as a programmer. #Now

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