Sylvan's Blog

Rust, software engineering, and whatever else I feel like writing about.

I'm Sylvan Bloch, a senior software engineer who spends most of his time building high-performance systems in Rust. This blog covers whatever I find interesting enough to write down, from low-latency trading systems and lock-free data structures to full-stack web architecture and embedded projects. There might even be a post about cooking or whatever hobby has grabbed my attention this month.

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2026-06-23

Building This Site

From backend engineer to fullstack Rust — the honest story

How I built my personal website from scratch using Leptos, why I ditched component libraries, and why Tailwind changed how I think about architecture.

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