Too Slow

By chimo on Jan. 4, 2026 (updated on Jan. 5, 2026)

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I almost sent a patch to gitsrht since I noticed multiline selection on blobs (ex: link to line #4 in a file and highlight the next 11 lines) was broken on my instance while writing a blog post today, but Simon was faster than me by about a day.

Just as well since it probably would’ve taken me a while to figure out patches via email, potentially wasting other people’s time pointing out my inevitable blunders :).

A couple of days ago I noticed my editor settings garbled up newlines on an email I sent. Whoops…

I should figure out why my hubsrht profile’s activity isn’t updating anymore though.

Articles from blogs I follow

Removing .m4v files from my media server when an equivalent .mp4 file exists

For some reason, some of the directories on my media server have both .mp4 and .m4v versions of the same thing. I blame Past Neil for this. To save space, I wanted to delete the duplicate .m4v files. “Duplicate” here just means that the files have the same …

via Neil's blog January 4, 2026

git: diff untracked

Previously. If we can stash untracked files (git stash -u), should we be able to git diff untracked files? Naturally, diffing an untracked file would output the entire file contents. Still, this can be desirable sometimes. When reviewing multiple files, some …

via ¬ just serendipity 🍀 January 4, 2026

Self Hosting A Firefox Sync Server

In one form or another, Firefox Sync has been around for years (in fact, it's not that far off being decades...). It allows you to share tabs, history and bookmarks between browsers on different devices (though, frustratingly, it doesn't sync sett…

via www.bentasker.co.uk January 3, 2026