Daily Update


Dumpling City

YESTERDAY:

  • head to work
  • busy meetings
  • got my lunch a bit late
    • japanase beef was delicious
    • unfortunately they smothered it with horseradish sauce
    • bit of a kick
  • got in one nap
  • head home
  • picked up a lettered cake from Costco
  • head to Irania’s birthday party
    • parking was awful near Stanford
    • haven’t seen some of her friends in a year
    • fun games
    • beautiful venue
  • head home
  • reading late into the night

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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.

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Nordic

Perspectives from a backend engineer learning how to write embedded software specifically on Nordic’s nRF52832.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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:

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