Daily Update
Palm Springs Planning
YESTERDAY:
- head to workout
- very sore from yesterday
- cat was hiding in a box at the gym, very cute
- shower at work
- productive day
- lots of folks out of office though
- one with a baby
- one with a sore throat
- one with a DMV issue
- one with a stomach ache :(
- long meeting in the morning
- dashi chicken for lunch
- semi-productive afternoon
- head home a bit early
- ran an errand on the way
- Thorvald had to skip due to a dental surgery
- late night meetings with Asia
- fell asleep waiting for Jackie to come home
- Jackie brought a burrito!
- not bad, but the guac at work is better
- fell asleep again while she watched Thunderbolts
- late night work
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: