Daily Update


Georgia Tech

YESTERDAY:

  • head to work
  • garlic pepper beef for lunch
    • delicious
    • but had to finish it in 10 mins
  • met with Tommy to go over interview prep!
  • met with Eli
    • sadly he did not get into Questbridge
    • worked on essays for early action though
  • busy day
  • head to core workout class
    • fun workout!
    • Turkish get-up was interesting
  • head to climbing
    • Ruth and Jackie!
    • practiced back squats afterwards
  • took Ruth to FT BBQ for late night dinner afterwards
  • head home
  • kindle wasn’t able to download an e-book :(

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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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