Hi! I'm Erica, a Sr. Software Engineer living in Toronto, Canada with my dog Ada.
I love to write and find that it helps deepen my understanding of various topics as I learn them. I decided to start this blog as a way of sharing not only what I learn, but also various topics and ideas that I find interesting with others.
I hope you enjoy what you read here.
Give Your AI Coding Assistant Something to Work With: A Case Study
Over my winter break, I'd been noodling over a new side project idea related to Ontario politics. I used to enjoy following what goes on, but these days looking at news articles and reading the email campaigns from my local politicians feels a bit click-bait-y and stress-inducing. I
What I learned from Anthropic's "Building with the Claude API" course
I decided to take this course in order to get a high-level understanding of all the features that Claude had to offer, and a better understanding of how these services worked under the hood, as well as patterns and best practices when interacting with them over an API. I figured
How I use AI
Like so many others, I've been experimenting with a number of different AI-powered tools to find the ones that work best for my style of working and how I learn. For folks trying to get some ideas of how to start applying AI in their workflows, I hope
Considering open sourcing software at your company?
From what I've seen in my career so far, the motivation to open source software at one's company tends to fall into one or more of the following buckets of reasons: 1) As a way of giving back to the wider software development community Developers leverage
Building "My Local Grocer"
This is a side project that I've been picking away at on-and-off for the past few years, and I'm finally at a place where I can say I'm "done". My Local Grocer was my attempt to make small mom-and-pop grocers more visible
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