Niall's Weblog

I mentioned the Fran routine in a post last week. Along with pull-ups, the workout consists of thrusters. Although I don’t think my thruster is terrible, I definitely need to improve it. I find my shoulder flexibility a limiting factor, causing me to expend more energy than necessary, and power is definitely a factor at [...]

I can’t take credit for this one. No, I’m merely acting as a conduit for a recipe created by my lovely girlfriend, Feifei, who has cooked this wonderful dish on a number of occasions. She kindly agreed to tell me the secret components of this steak marinade, and I’m naming it after her. Steak a [...]

I did the CrossFit Fran routine for the first time last night at the gym. It consists of just two exercises – thrusters at 95 lbs and pull-ups. You do 21-15-9 of each, alternating. In other words, 21 thrusters, then 21 pull-ups, before moving down to 15 thrusters – you get the picture. If you’re [...]

For quite a long time now, OpenBSD has, among numerous exploit mitigation techniques, had a very strict mmap()-based malloc() implementation. Recently re-written by Otto Moerbeek, it is even harsher now. I find that this feature makes OpenBSD one of the best platforms to develop C programs on. If you have a double-free, use-after-free, off-by-one, or [...]

I think food is one of the most basic things in life. Most people eat around three times a day, every day, for their entire life. How food tastes, and what it does to your body, would seem to me to be absolutely critical. Few people here in the San Francisco tech industry seem to [...]