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Ohad's blog

Hi!

This is my blog. I write about software, performance, Rust, Python and the like.

Everything here is written entirely by me: LLMs are cool and all, but writing is like going to the gym, and sharing an LLM’s writing on the internet without disclosure is rude.

Recent Posts

Sliced by Go’s Slices
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Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
How to Build Python Code with Bazel (and Why)
Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster
Zig is not F’ing memory safe
A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde
Frankenstein’s __init__
BTrees, Inverted Indices, and a Model for Full Text Search
Debugging a Vision Transformer Compilation Issue
State of the Crates 2025
My most downvoted StackOverflow answer
Put a Pin on That
Winning the fight against the Rust compiler (Coherence in Rust, feat. rustc sources)
Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust