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.
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.