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.
Assorted Reads (November 2024)
Hey folks, it's that time of month again! I hope you're all having a great weekend wherever you are in the world. Let's jump right in! Instead of Being Cynical, Try Becoming Skeptical This read came from an issue of my favourite newsletter, Dense
What is a carbon handprint?
I've recently started reading "Building Green Software" as part of an online book club and, in the introduction, the authors reference the potential "carbon handprint" of software. I wasn't familiar with this term, so I decided to dig into it to learn
Git Log's Hidden Gems: Using -S and -L for Powerful Code History Search
Ever needed to track down when a specific piece of code was first introduced in a project? As part of some refactoring I had to do recently, I needed to do just that for a variable on a Django model. I was already familiar with the basic git log command,
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