Daily Update
Hello Bachata Performance
YESTERDAY:
- head to dental appointment
- they found a cavity!!
- haven’t had one of these in years
- she showed me the AI detection on the x-ray which was neat though
- head to work
- kung pao chicken for lunch
- not as dry as last time!
- interesting discussion …
- two naps
- mostly productive day
- head to workout
- lots of core
- head home
- quick shower
- walk to Castro St
- dinner with Kat and Jessica!
- Fish With You was unexpectedly closed
- went to the malatang place instead
- smoothie
- sync with Michael
- head back to Artista to pick up some shoes that Jackie left behind
Posts
Firebase Password Reset from Gmail
Firebase authentication has a useful email/password login option and it’s default behavior includes easy ways to trigger password resets. One annoyance though is that the invoking the password reset will be sent from noreply@(project-id).firebaseapp.com email address. This can easily end up in a customer’s spam folder or blocked by email filters.
Series A
Nordic
Perspectives from a backend engineer learning how to write embedded software specifically on Nordic’s nRF52832.
Yoga
Karat Summit
Culture Interview
In 2012, we hit 100 employees. We were expecting to grow exponentially in the next few years. How do we preserve our culture?
Scaling Karat
For the past few months I’ve taken on a contracting role at Karat, a company that specializes in first-round engineering interviews for other software companies. It’s really a lovely opportunity for me, providing a bit of income, the flexibility I need to pursue my startups, and a great community.
Tech Lead and PM
There’s data out there that shows the best indicator of performant engineering teams are those where the tech lead and product managers align.
Breakup
XCode and Clang Errors
Spent ~6 hours on this today, so figures it deserves a post … the original start of this whole fiasco was introducing one extra dependency for react-native-version-info. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that particular library, in fact I had that up and running perfectly within minutes on Android. For some reason, my iOS build failed to compile with an error caused by recursive expansion of a search header path from a completely different dependency, react-native-fcm: