Itay is a developer and a researcher who's passionate about solving low-level challenges. He loves to tinker with electronics, to optimize his Emacs config, and to learn new technologies.

SeaHash: A blazingly fast, portable hash function with proven statistical guarantees.

I started experimenting with asynchronous Rust code back when futures 0.1 was all we had - before async/await . I was a Rust baby then (I'm at least a toddler now), so I qu... (more…)

Moore’s Law is just about done. It once described a trend of transistor count doubling every 24 months (enabled by increasing the density of transistors by making them ever-smaller). Now: (more…)

I’ve noticed that the ideas that I post on my blog are getting much more “well rounded”. That is a problem. It means I’m waiting too long to write about thin... (more…)