Daily Update
Country Swing
YESTERDAY:
- woke up around 9
- checked out of hotel
- head to brunch at Mimi’s Cafe
- food was ok
- ended up eating a bit of everybody’s plate
- musicality salsa workshop was theoretically interesting
- combo was a bit weird, mix of different steps and timings
- country swing workshop was pretty fun
- Jackie convinced me to try a jazz funk class
- holy cow that was hard
- declined the instructor’s offer to film us …
- totally respect the people who could do it though
- left Sacremento around 5:30 pm
- head to UC Davis to visit Charlotte!
- family call with Amy around the same time
- sushi place for dinner
- not too bad
- dropped off Charlotte
- head back to bay area
- dropped by garage to pick up some inventory
- head home
- unpack, shower, made a smoothie
- ordered some wedding stuff on Temu
- found two new books to try!
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: