Nathan Marley on marley.io

blu: Encrypted, Deduplicated File Archival You Actually Own

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The cloud will burst someday. blu is an encrypted, content-addressed file archival system in Rust with post-quantum hybrid encryption, built so your data stays yours with keys only you control.

Macro Thesis: Sovereignty, Privacy, and the Future of Money

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Three forces are converging: the sovereign debt crisis, AI-powered mass financial surveillance, and the emergence of network states. Together they make private, fungible, sovereign money a structural necessity, not a feature.

Rust-Powered Full-Text Search w/Tantivy

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I built a full-text search engine in Rust using Tantivy to ingest and index Brazil’s Diário Oficial da União–the federal government’s daily journal. It scans new publications for key phrases and sends real-time email alerts.

Projects

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For now this is an overview of hobby projects, systems I want to build, and a few coordination problems I think are worth solving.

Open-Source Infrastructure Ideas

Generic DNS Seeder in Rust

I've been sitting on this idea for a few years now, need to get started on it. Would be generic for any network (Bitcoin, Dash, etc.) and configured via command-line options and/or config files.

Using Goroutines and Channels for High-Throughput S3 Object Hashing

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Revisiting the S3 Hasher, but this time in Go! We achieve similar performance to Rust, processing at just around 3 GB/s using Go’s built-in concurrency primitives.

High-Throughput S3 Object Hashing: 3GB/s with Rust and Tokio

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A high-speed S3 object hasher built with Rust, processing at up to 3 GB/s. We use a channel-based architecture to concurrently stream and hash S3 objects. We process a 12 TB dataset in just over an hour, demonstrating Rust’s capability for efficient, large-scale data processing.

Kekich's Credo

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dave Kekich was a long-distance runner, weightlifting fanatic and up-and-coming entrepreneur, and in the late 70s, suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury which left him paralyzed from the waist down. After his injury and a couple of bad business experiences, he wrote 100 of the most impactful business and life lessons, commonly referred to as the “Kekich Credos”, or “Kekich’s Credo”.

Kekich’s Credo

1. People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. The easy roads to discipline are 1) setting deadlines, 2) discovering and doing what you do best and what's important and enjoyable to you and 3) focusing on habits by replacing your bad habits and thought patterns, one-by-one, over time, with good habits and thought patterns.