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.
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
Reflections on "Performance and Sustainability" at QCon London 2025
I had the privilege of hosting the "Performance and Sustainability" track at QCon London this year. It was my first time hosting a track, and I was incredibly fortunate to have the following talented speakers be a part of it: * Ludi Akue * Jade Abbott * Alex Good * Sarah Hsu
Avoiding Go runtime errors with interface compliance and type assertion checks
As I've been brushing up on my Go skills with a side project, one question I had was how errors related to structs not implementing an interface manifest in different ways in Go. So here's a bit of a dive into what I learned on how
Assorted reads (January 2025)
Hi folks, I hope you've all been doing well! 👋 I've been starting my new year on a bit of a podcast-listening binge, revisiting old shows that I've stepped away from for a bit as well as trying some new ones out that I'
Privacy-preserving payment systems, goals for 2025, and a new side project
Happy New Year all! I hope you had a great holiday break and a wonderful start to the year. I enjoyed some much needed rest and got a chance to read a lot of books I've been meaning to get to. One of them was a novella called
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