YESTERDAY:

• woke up a bit late
• head to Santana Row for yoga
  • 26&2 class was tiny!
  • only five students
  • lots of attention though
• picked up acai bowls for lunch
  • really getting use out of the 3d printed carrier!
• missed the 2-hour garage limit by 4 minutes
• head home
• head out to run errands
  • dropped by Ranch 99 to get dumplings and fish
  • fresh fish is almost same price as fresh crab now!
• head home for a nap
• carpool with friends up to SF for dancing
  • picked up Kathy on the way
• fun social hosted by Lorans
  • class was … not great for some folks
  • also far too many leads, so I ended up following
  • tiny venue, with good music
  • costume competition was interesting
• head back to San Mateo for late night dinner
  • spicy food at Urban Momo
• got home around 1 am
• bit of work

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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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Poem celebrating closing Series A

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

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Poem for yoga!

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Little poem for the first Karat Interviewer Summit:

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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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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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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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She broke up with me this time.

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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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