The personal blog of Casey Kolderup

California's plastic bag ban aimed to reduce waste and increase recycling, but it hasn't worked out as planned. What went wrong?

Grindr Inc. has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize.

Threat Analysis Group shares findings on a new campaign by North Korean actors targeting security researchers.

Welcome to another edition of Teamwork Newsletter that explores managing people and building high-performing teams.

First part of a story on how I’ve built 25 Gbps router for home use.

With customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential…

Since our launch of the Mojo programming language on May 2nd, more than 120K+ developers have signed up to use the Mojo Playground and 19K+ developers actively discuss Mojo on Discord and GitHub. Today, we’re excited to announce the next big step in Mojo’s…

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Bun 1.0 is here!

Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit designed for speed, complete with a bundler, test runner, and Node.js-compatible package manager.

https://bun.sh/

It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.

Explore the enhanced security features of Ubuntu with TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption, now available as an experimental feature in Ubuntu 23.10. Discover how this innovative technology eliminates the need for passphrases, enhances data protection, and guards…

BMW has made a U-turn on a controversial subnoscription service that saw drivers pay a fee to activate the heated seats fitted to their car.

Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer, the most overrated metric in entertainment, is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. “Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do,” says filmmaker Paul Schrader.

Hybrid organs raise prospect of fully human body parts being grown inside animals for transplants

Astronomers report the discovery of a new massive and quiescent galaxy at a high redshift. The galaxy, which received designation COSMOS-1047519, was detected using the Keck I telescope. The finding was ...