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why i built chroma collection, a design tool based off of art institute of chicago's library

most color palette tools start from nothing, you pick colors in a vacuum. i wanted something that starts from real art. back when i was in my web dev bootcamp at msu, we had a class project where we h...

jesse • March 4, 2026

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why i built fotoflo, a personal photo manager for film photographers

a lot of the beauty in film comes from the unknowns, but one of the unknowns that causes a pain point in my workflow and general enjoyment of film is organizing my files digitally. confusing file names...

jesse • February 24, 2026

tarkovsky's polaroids

if you look for a meaning, you’ll miss everything that happens~ modern mass culture, aimed at the ‘consumer’, the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people’s souls, wrote tarkovsky, setting...

jesse • February 8, 2026