Daily Update
Comedian
YESTERDAY:
- head to work
- ramen for lunch
- and a salad and a soup
- one nap
- head to Stanford health center in Redwood City in afternoon
- parked in the wrong parking lot
- still made it to my appointment on time
- super nice doctor
- got me a sleep monitoring device
- head to yoga in Palo Alto
- teacher was surprised to see me
- fun class
- caught up with Kofi on my way home
- shower
- head to comedy show
- Gina Brillon!
- used up some of our stubhub credit
- hilarious set
- ginger ale and salsa + chips
- dislike required minimum orders
- head home
- frozen dumplings for dinner
- went through mail stuffs
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: