Daily Update
Yoo Yoo
YESTERDAY:
- woke up at usual time
- only 4 hours of sleep
- apparently somebody tried to hack us?
- putting up an Asian gambling site on our subdomain
- DNS fix took an hour to propagate
- head back to sleep
- head to Palo Alto
- lunch with Yoo-Yoo at ramen nagi!
- hung out for a few hours catching up on various topics
- head to dance practice
- Kat, Pawan, and Vikas showed up
- fixed some choreo inconsistencies
- Jackie drove us to Macu tea
- took a PGSS call from the car
- head to Brian’s
- dinner with Ruth
- played a board game called Cascadia
- missed a rule and came in third
- tough Frosthaven scenario!
- oozes are always annoying to fight
- found a cheap strategy using my fist though!
- tried out windex on the INSIDE of my shower
- works pretty well
- one episode of one punch man
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: