Daily Update
Satoshi Chicken
YESTERDAY:
- surprisingly not sore
- acai bowl for brunch
- Jackie went to do some errands
- getting mini-pumpkins for a work event?
- head to Sunjay for a bit of work
- brought guitar!
- case is now delaminating :(
- kids had just left though
- skipped dance practice
- picked up Jackie
- head to Fuego for some social dancing
- Jackie had her Google team performance!
- head to Millbrae
- picked up James and Edwin
- they were at CalHacks
- they won an award!
- took them to Satoshi ramen for dinner
- fried chicken is not as good
- massive quantity though!
- dropped them off at SFO
- head home
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: