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.
Green software book club, git log tricks, and pro bono work in tech
Hi folks! I hope you've all been doing well and, if you live in an area that's getting colder as winter approaches, hope you're staying warm. I love the colder weather because I get to bust out all the warm soup and stew recipes
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,
Using XOR to write concise conditionals
It's not uncommon that I sometimes write if statements where the overall conditional is true when both conditions are true or both are false. As an example, let's say I'm validating input from an API call where I'm updating information on a
Fixing "No preset version installed for command poetry"
Poetry is a packaging and dependency management tool for Python, and a tool that didn't exist when I worked with Python many years before I started working at Float. I also hadn't been exposed to asdf, which is a handy little tool for managing multiple runtimes.
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