Shipping GroupMe on Android
This week: a crash that only reproduces on Samsung devices set to Korean. Three years at Microsoft and the job is still 40% detective work.
KhushwinKhushwin Ujoodha
I build Android apps at Microsoft, and Orbit in the evenings. I grew up on an island in the Indian Ocean and I still cook like it.
Everything below is dated, newest first — work, Orbit, tennis, the occasional thing I wrote. One list, because that’s the order it actually happened in.
nobody’s life has separate tabs for “work” and “personal”
journey is the three places I’ve lived, oldest last
it was the keyboard.
it is always the keyboard.
Tennis twice a week, running the other days
Plus the gym most mornings, with an enthusiasm that varies by season. I'd like to claim it's discipline. It's mostly that I don't know how to sit still.
Orbit went into beta orbit.app ↗
My closest friends are eleven hours ahead. Orbit gives you both the same small question at the same time, and neither answer opens until you've both written something. No feeds, no streaks, nothing to fall behind on.
Luck is the variable everyone leaves out of the model
Every origin story I've read is a description of an outcome with the dice quietly removed. Mine included. So here is the honest version, dice first — keep reading
the only post so far.
a blog is a promise, not a page
Finally made dholl puri my mum wouldn't disown
Nobody in Seattle sells it, which makes this less a hobby than infrastructure. Eleventh attempt. The trick was less water than any recipe admits.
Moved to Seattle, started at Microsoft
Rain seven months a year and Mount Rainier appearing out of nowhere on the clear days, which is a fair trade. Also where my taste in flannel quietly became sincere.
I own four. sincerely.
Teams → GroupMe
Outlook, then Teams, now GroupMe. Three apps, one platform, and a genuinely alarming amount of accumulated knowledge about Android notifications.
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
Left the island at eighteen for a university I had never seen. Four years of computer science, four years of varsity swimming, one real coat. Worcester is where I went from someone who codes to a software engineer, and I can't point at the week it happened.
Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius
Sugarcane, sleeping volcanoes, and three languages in one sentence. Non-negotiable formative event.
the list ends where I started.
felt right.