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Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

”She”, for example, is younger than ”he”, and seems to be an amalgamation of two Old English female pronouns, Birkett says – ”heo” and ”seo”. ”[These] probably combined over time, to make ’she’,” he says. Vikings and werewolves Another commonly used modern pronoun, ”they” – along with ”them” and ”their” – is actually not Old […]

Claude mixes up who said what and that’s not OK

The bug Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and then thinks those messages came from the user. This is the worst bug I’ve seen from an LLM provider, but people always misunderstand what’s happening and blame LLMs, hallucinations, or lack of permission boundaries. Those are related issues, but this ‘who said what’ bug is categorically […]

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019]

The 3-D space in the pre-visualization didn’t always relate to the physical stage, but effects cinematographer Bill Neil and his associate, Paul Gentry, found it to be useful, if only as a timing guide. Neil explains, “It was a wonderful communications tool between the visual effects team and the director to help clarify what his […]

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code spend to Zed and OpenRouter TL;DR Instead of $100/month for Claude, pay $10/month for Zed editor and set up a monthly $90 top up to OpenRouter. You can use the Zed Agent harness or keep using Claude Code, however you pay API costs for what you use. When you’re not using, […]

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

All of the work we do is funded by less than 3% of our users. We never show advertisements or sell your data. We don’t have corporate funding. We are fully funded by financial contributions from our users. Thunderbird’s mission is to give you the best privacy-respecting, customizable email experience possible. Free for everyone to […]

Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

[run #12] 2026-02-12 11:42:03 curl -s api.weather.gov/alerts ✓ Fetched 3 active alerts workspace/alerts.json No severe storms detected. Sleeping for 300s…

Open Source Security at Astral

Astral builds tools that millions of developers around the world depend on and trust. That trust includes confidence in our security posture: developers reasonably expect that our tools (and the processes that build, test, and release them) are secure. The rise of supply chain attacks, typified by the recent Trivy and LiteLLM hacks, has developers […]

Little Snitch for Linux – Because Nothing Else Came Close

Recent political events have pushed governments and organizations to seriously question their dependence on foreign-controlled software. The core issue is simple and uncomfortable: through automatic updates, a vendor can run any code, with any privileges, on your machine, at any time. Most people know this, but prefer not to think about it. Linux is the […]

LittleSnitch for Linux

Little Snitch for Linux Products Little Snitch Little Snitch Mini Micro Snitch LaunchBar Internet Access Policy Viewer More Products Shop Support Blog Getting started Once installed, open the user interface by running littlesnitch in a terminal, or go straight to http://localhost:3031/. You can bookmark that URL, or install it as a Progressive Web App. Any […]

Expanding Swift’s IDE Support

You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live. Swift has long supported development using multiple IDEs including VS Code, Xcode, […]