/Now

A /now page tells you what I'm up to at this point in my life; the stuff I'd mention if we haven't seen each other in a few months. Mine is broken into ephemeral updates that I can quickly post to Bluesky using the #Now tag and longer updates that I will add to less frequently. Updates can be expected to be from the last four months, with the newest listed first.

Redesigned the jesse.id/friends page on my personal site to make it look cooler. Thanks to @nickgraynews.bsky.social and his slashfriends.org project for the idea. My friends love it. I think it's evoking a MySpace Top 8 type of dopamine hit. #Now

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Longer Updates

Friday, October 9th, 2026

Just celebrated my 20th anniversary with my wife and we had been together for somewhere around 5 years before we actually got married, which means I have now been with my wife for longer than I have lived without her. That’s pretty insane stuff.

I still don’t feel old, which is nice. Well, I don’t feel mentally old. I am reaching the point where I can feel weather changes coming in my joints. Temperature going down 20 degrees means that I get to feel like I have a high ankle sprain for a couple of days. I try not to eat foods that stoke inflammation but at some point it just doesn’t matter I guess.

I’ve been coding up a storm. I’ve felt pretty reinvigorated by Claude Code, especially with the release of Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 model. It’s been pretty incredible. I feel more and more vindicated by jumping on the AI train early and evangelizing agentic coding. I still haven’t felt any threat of losing my career to the technology, either. Human creativity is undefeated and I think it will stay that way.

Miriam and I watched season 1 of Lanterns as it released to HBO Max week-to-week and it’s interesting how my preferences have shifted with age. When Netflix first launched and started releasing full seasons to binge, I was all about that. Season 1 of Stranger Things was one of the most magical accidents that I’ve ever experienced. I was doing my typical night owl routine and scrolling through Netflix when all of a sudden midnight hit and I saw that familiar red background with boys-on-bikes in the foreground. I watched an episode, texted everyone I knew that I struck gold, and then I was up until 6AM until I finished it and then Miriam woke up and I watched it again with her after a nap. Awesome stuff.

No more. Give me a week-to-week release cadence on everything, please. It’s so much easier to stay ahead of spoilers and less stressful, too.

Monday, July 6th, 2026

I’ve been doing a lot of coding lately — for work, personal projects, and projects for friends. I am maintaining two apps that I built from the ground up and two forks of free and open source projects. I would link to them but the links include my last name, which I’m no longer comfortable attaching to anything on the Internet where I may express an opinion.

It’s not impossible to find my last name if you’re properly motivated, but I’m trying not to include it willy-nilly. I have concerns about the surveillance state forming underneath us here in the United States. I tend to have opinions on things and a non-functioning filter at times.

In the last few months, I’ve either created or done ground-up redesigns of websites for creative projects that some of my closest friends are involved in. Check them out!

I’ve been so into coding lately that I’ve been listening to far fewer podcasts, playing far fewer video games, and watching far less television. I’ve been listening to a lot more music, which I’ll try to post on my blog from time to time.

I did watch Season 1 of Widow’s Bay with friends though, and that is incredibly good. Highly recommend if you love Parks & Rec style comedy mixed with Stephen King style horror tropes.

Ephemeral Updates · 9

  1. Redesigned the jesse.id/friends page on my personal site to make it look cooler. Thanks to @nickgraynews.bsky.social and his slashfriends.org project for the idea. My friends love it. I think it's evoking a MySpace Top 8 type of dopamine hit. #Now

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  2. 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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  3. It's insane how good Madvillainy is #Now

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  4. 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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  5. One of my favorite pastimes is getting myself snagged on the cryptids algorithm in IG reels and commenting on the videos sanely. Been at it for a couple of hours. #Now

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  6. My cat is digging her claws into my leg to beg for hard-boiled eggs when we established that she doesn't like them three years ago, and every time that I've had hard-boiled eggs since then. She lives directly in the center of the dumb, cute, and annoying Venn diagram. #Now

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  7. Anytime I sell stuff on eBay, I'm just so impressed with how good the USPS is. Cheap shipping, I can print the label, they'll send me free boxes, and then they'll come and just pick them up off of my porch for free? This is what the GOP is trying to destroy? The problem is that it's too good? #Now

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  8. I took this week off because I like to stack long holiday weekends with PTO the following week, except I've just been coding all day anyway. Stoking that token bonfire and looking forward to watching USA and Belgium play tonight in the World Cup. #Now

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  9. I'm adding a /now integration (nownownow.com/about) to my website that will look at my BlueSky skeets and pull any with #Now to list on that page. I think it will be a cool way to post about my current goings-on.

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