<![CDATA[ Jacob Tender's Lists ]]> https://jacobtender.net https://jacobtender.net/favicon.png Jacob Tender's Lists https://jacobtender.net Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:06:29 -0400 60 <![CDATA[ My Letterboxd tickets ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/my-letterboxd-tickets/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad16d Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:35:08 -0500 These are all of the Letterboxd Support tickets I've opened, categorized by their current status. I had a bunch of feature requests implemented before they started using Nolt, but I don't care to link to old Tweets anymore.

Open

Profile Settings Favorites Banner Preview (#4161)

Often, patrons choose the order of their four favorites based on what the banner images associated. To preview these today, the user is required to leave the profile, change the order in the settings panel, and return to the profile page (refreshing if they hit back). If the banner isn’t suitable, the user must repeat this step up to 4 times.

I propose a preview of the banner, shown in the space above the four favorites in the settings area. Mockup attached.
Side note: I noticed there is mixed terminology in use for the settings screen. The page’s title is “Profile Settings” while the header reads “Account Settings” with a tabbed area for “Profile”.

Additional inverse filters (language/country) (#4413)

When filtering a list on genre, it’s possible to inverse the result. Through the UI, you can do this by selecting the genre from the menu twice. Via a URL, you can prepend a - to the genre name.

Example:
https://letterboxd.com/jacob/list/criterion-challenge-2024/genre/-action/

I would love to see this functionality extended to language / country filters. While these do not yet have UI elements associated with them, I would expect to use the following URL to filter my list down to non-English titles:
https://letterboxd.com/jacob/list/criterion-challenge-2024/language/-english/

Similarly, I’d love to chain language/country like you can genre.
https://letterboxd.com/jacob/list/criterion-challenge-2024/genre/drama+romance+-comedy/

This would be useful in a number of applications, but I thought to try it before dinner last night. Thought being that I wanted to watch something that didn’t require undivided attention to subtitles.

Implemented / Fixed

Include "Owned" titles in "Where To Watch" box (#356)

Now that Letterboxd keeps record of films we own via lists, we can filter lists based on ownership status. It would be great to include this status on film pages as well. You know, for those of us too forgetful to remember owning the Blu-ray. 😜

Allow rel="me" attributes in profile links (#2145)

As outlined in the platform’s documentation here, it’s possible to verify links in your Mastodon profile by use of a link using a rel="me" attribute.

Using my profile as an example (bio source), I can see that Letterboxd is stripping away any extra attributes on <a> tags and replacing them with a rel="no follow". In the profile edit view, all attributes are retained. But when displayed, they are replaced. I assume this is to prevent passing any link authority to the target for search engines’ benefit, but as a user I’d like to verify that the profile I’m linking to is mine.

I’d like to suggest either passing these attributes through in the bio text or adding Mastodon as a connection that might allow for such a linkback to be put on the profile. It doesn’t matter the context, it just needs to live on the profile.

FWIW: Mastodon isn’t alone. Others are adopting this method of “verification” as well.

Bug: Managing special tags with characters (#3222)

I was removing some old rating tags I used many years ago and noticed a bug concerning tags using the “½” character.

For example: I had tags for 4 and 4½. While they are listed separately on my tag page, their URLs were the same (excluding the special character). Deleting the “4” tag worked fine, but this decreased the count for the “4½” tag. Attempting to delete the “4½” tag does nothing. Any tag with the “½” character appears to be stuck.

iOS Bug: Tag field scroll jumping while typing (#3870)

This one persisted for months and drove me absolutely insane.

Following the 4.0 update, the tag field jumps around as new tags are typed out and selected.

Web Bug: Duplicated "When Rated" sort option (#3887)

When browsing any profile’s films, there are duplicate sort options for “When rated.” The URIs between them differ, but the labels and resulting sorts are the same.

https://letterboxd.com/jacob/films/rated/5/by/date/
https://letterboxd.com/jacob/films/rated/5/by/date-earliest/
https://letterboxd.com/jacob/films/rated/5/by/rated-date/
https://letterboxd.com/jacob/films/rated/5/by/rated-date-earliest/

Web: match substrings when tagging content (#4611)

On mobile, when I type “netflix” in the Edit Tags view of the review form, I am returned the option of service: netflix. On desktop, I am not.

I would love to see this fuzzy / approximate / substring-matching search implemented on desktop as well.

Other examples that work on mobile and not desktop:

1. “challenge" -> criterion-challenge
2. “child” -> death of a child, abandoned children
3. “nyc” -> new york ( nyc ) (not sure why parentheses are not excluded in substring searches, otherwise i’d expect new york (nyc) to work as well.
4. “comedy” -> romantic comedy, workplace comedy, etc.

In Progress

Add "Now Available To Watch" view to apps (#2161)

I love the “Now Available To Watch” roundup emails. They’re super influential in planning what I want to watch each week. When each email is delivered, I also get an app notification.

However, tapping into this notification takes me to the first film on that list of “now available” features. By using the native app over an email (which I’d prefer to do), I’m missing out on the entire list and end up having to open the email anyway.

I’d love to see a page or list view of all films now available on my services.

Under Consideration

Filter movies not available on streaming OR in owned lists (#3656)

I have a list which I’ve filtered to exclude films available to stream on my services. Within this subset, there are a number of films shown that I own.

I would like to filter these too, leaving just the films that are not available for streaming on my services OR marked as owned. I’m looking for the subset of movies that I do not have access to.

If I mark both available filters (“include films you own” and “exclude matching films”), I see the following language in the filter banner above my list: “There are 38 films in this list that you own or are not available for streaming on your favorite services”

This combination shows me the movies not available to stream AND the movies marked as owned. I would like the ability to exclude films matching “owned” as well. The delta again being movies I do not have access to anywhere that Plex is aware of. This way I can endeavor to find them physically or otherwise.

Declined

Although #2145 was declined, it has since been implemented so this section is now empty!

]]> <![CDATA[ All-time vocalists ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/all-time-vocalists/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad150 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:02:47 -0500 Those songbirds which transcend conventional ability and became something altogether more greater. I listen to these artists when I want to feel a higher power.

  • Donny Hathaway
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Liz Frazier
  • Jeff Buckley
  • Roger Miller
  • Robin Pecknold
  • Deloris O'Riordan
]]> <![CDATA[ Websites that make the Internet worth it ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/websites-that-make-the-internet-worth-it/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad14c Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:58:31 -0500 Can we admit that, by and large, the Internet was a bad idea? As someone who's made most of their nut and name on the Internet in some fashion, I'm convinced most of it is garbage. This is my list of sites and services that have only given me joy.

]]> <![CDATA[ Lame claims to fame ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/lame-claims-to-fame/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad14f Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:13:13 -0400 Brushes with celebrity.

  • My late friend JP submitted a rather unattractive selfie of me to the Chainsmokers for their music video. It's supposedly in there (or perhaps the second cut), but I've not looked for it.
  • I published a personal essay about Fall Out Boy on my birthday in 2012. Patrick Stump responded to it. These events led to the reuniting of the band.
  • Questlove emailed me once. I emailed him back and told him I didn't believe it was him. It was.
  • I stood in line next to two members of Paramore at Jenni's Ice Cream in Nashville, TN in July 2014. Neither of them were Hayley.
  • I made the poster most commonly used for Michael Parbot's "lost" documentary on the making of The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Somewhere in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, I exchanged a confused head nod with Kal Penn who was riding in the backseat of a car. I was very tired and sweaty from a four-hour hike across the city. He looked very comfortable.
  • I was the first person to interact with Matty Healy of The 1975 on Reddit.
]]> <![CDATA[ Sheer delight comedy series ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/comedy-series/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad14e Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:05:10 -0400 These programs have indelibly marked my life with joy.

]]> <![CDATA[ Words I consistently spell wrong ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/words-i-consistently-spell-wrong/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad14b Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:00:42 -0500 These are the words that make me feel most like an illiterate moron. I'm exposing myself here. Red squiggles and all.

  • necessary (neccesary, neccessary)
  • restaurant (restaruant)
  • maintenance (maintainence)
  • publicly (publicaly)
  • silhouette (sillouhete, sillouette)
]]> <![CDATA[ Comedy heroes ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/comedians/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad140 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:21:42 -0500 I think you can learn a lot about a person, their sense of humor, and how they see the world by knowing who their favorite comedians are. These are the ones that have made the largest impact on me over the course of my life, in order of my exposure to their work.

  • Gene Wilder
  • Robin Williams
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • Steve Oedekerk
  • Drew Carey
  • David Letterman
  • Mel Brooks
  • Monty Python
  • Demetri Martin
  • Tig Notaro
  • Andy Kaufman
  • Bo Burnham
  • Ricky Gervais
  • Larry David
  • Steven Wright
  • Emo Phillips
  • Garry Shandling

A few more modern comedians I really, really enjoy:

  • Tim Key
  • John Mulaney
  • The College Humor crew
  • Tig Notaro
  • Tim Robinson
  • James Acaster
  • Bob Mortimer
]]> <![CDATA[ Characters from kids movies that frightened me as a child ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/characters-from-kids-movies-that-frightened-me-as-a-child/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad13f Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:58:47 -0400 Is it just me or were kids movies scarier before the new millennium?

  • The Child Catcher - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • The Winkster - Barney Live in New York City
  • Monseigneur Claude Frollo - Hunchback of Notre Dam
  • The Wicked Witch of the West - The Wizard of Oz
  • everything - Return To Oz
  • Shan Yu - Mulan
  • Miss Trunchbull - Matilda
  • Percival C. McLeach - The Rescuers Down Under

This is also a Letterboxd list.

]]> <![CDATA[ Names for Jazz ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/names-for-jazz/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad13b Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:05:57 -0400 These are some of the affectionate titles I've used to refer directly to my dog, whose actual name is Jazz. She's the best.

Jazz
Jazzy
Jazzaroo
Jazzarooie
Jazzaroogie
Jazzaroonie
Jazzybobazzy

Roo
Rooie
Roonie
Roonit
Rooballoo
Roogie
Roogiebatoogie
Roogala
Roorito
Roonieballoonie

Bub
Bubby
Bubba
Bubbeleh
Bubbaroo
Baboo

Ron
Ronballon

Goofy
Gooba

Grandma Roo

Thumper

Smiley

Potroast

Sweet Baby Girl

Miss Roo
Miss Velvet Ears
Miss Belvedere

]]> <![CDATA[ Video games I've played ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/games-ive-played/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad136 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:26:57 -0500 I don't play video games very often. Apart from the extreme nausea I experience when playing many first-person games, I'm also very picky. Here's a record of some games I've completed since 2020.

  • The Last Of Us (Remaster, PS4)
  • Firewatch (PS4)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild (Switch)
  • Alien: Isolation (PS4) — Thread
  • Animal Crossing (Switch)
  • The Dig (Mac)
  • The Last Of Us, Part II (PS4)
  • Jedi: Fallen Order (PS4) — Thread
  • Star Wars: Battlefront (PS4) — Thread
  • Thimbleweed Park (Mac)
  • Unpacking (Switch)
  • Backbone (Steam Deck)
  • Deep Rock Galactic (Steam Deck)
  • Valheim (Steam Deck)
  • Norco (Steam Deck) - Thread
  • Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch)
  • Goodboy Galaxy (GBA -  Analogue Pocket)
  • Melvor Idle (iOS)
  • Pokémon TCG Pocket (iOS)
]]> <![CDATA[ Articles that never fail to make me laugh ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/articles-that-never-fail-to-make-me-laugh/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad101 Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:33:27 -0400 If the Internet is good for anything, it's chuckles on demand. This is a list of articles I've read online that I can read over and over again for a laugh.

2021:


2016:

2014:

]]> <![CDATA[ Pet peeves ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/pet-peeves/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad134 Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:54:00 -0500 We all have them. These are mine.

Things people do:

  • When things are set on the edge of a table.
  • FaceTiming in public spaces.
  • Bare feet in restaurants and on planes.
  • Smoke detectors low on batteries in the background of video calls for months on end.

Things people say:

  • When people utter "vinyls" to refer to vinyl records in the plural.
  • Using Rise of the Skywalker to refer to Episode IX of the Star Wars saga.
  • Checkout clerks who mindlessly offer to "help whosever next."

Media:

  • Starting a TV show or movie while another remains partially watched.

Branding:

  • The instructions on One A Day chewable state, "Adults and children 12 years of age and older: Fully chew two gummies daily."
  • Triscuits haven't had just three corners in years.
]]> <![CDATA[ Things I do that other people don't ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/things-i-do-that-other-people-dont/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad133 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 09:48:00 -0500 What is the weirdest thing you do? After John and Merlin began talking about this on Reconcilable Differences, I've started to keep a list of the "secret weird things that I do" that other people do not.

  • I absolutely can not eat the last centimeter of a pickle spear or banana. I can eat the first centimeter, but I can not eat the end that once connected to a stem.
  • I'm a chronic water cup rinser. If I finish a glass of water or want to top it off, I dump, fill, swirl, dump, then refill it.
]]> <![CDATA[ Rules for Twitter ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/rules-for-twitter/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad135 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:55:00 -0500
  • You don't have to have a take.
  • Talk about things you like and not things you don't like.
  • Be nice.
    • ]]>         <![CDATA[ People I'm told I look like ]]> https://jacobtender.net/lists/people-im-told-i-look-like/ 69bf07bf9268845e852ad132 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:38:00 -0400 I'm told often and without hesitation about who I remind people of. This is a running list of celebrities I've been likened to.

    • Christopher Mintz-Plasse (specifically his fictional character McLovin)
    • Brendon Urie (singer)
    • Theo James (actor)
    • Keanu Reeves (actor)
    • Ben Schnetzer (actor)
    • Zach Braff (actor)
    • Jason Lee (actor)
    • Brad Delson (Linkin Park guitarist)
    • Jeremy Jahns (YouTuber)
    • Benny Safdie (Filmmaker)

    I must have one of those faces.

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