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.
Trillium Updates: Choosing to self-host
Following up from my previous post about the lessons I learned steering Claude and building on its API, this one is on what I learned in choosing to run Trillium entirely on my laptop, rather than deploy it to the cloud. How this started To start with - I didn'
Trillium Update: Lessons from Steering Claude and Building on Its API
Since sharing what I've learned in my initial post about Trillium a few months back, I've gotten much further with it. There was about a month of legislative activity (~February/March) that gave me a lot of opportunities to test the progression of bills and see
Generating diagrams for unfamiliar codebases using an AI skill
Everyone who has worked in software has experience poring over multiple codebases trying to understand how all the different pieces of functionality interact. One of my first starter tasks when I joined Sentry was to learn more about the Celery integration for Sentry's Python SDK and, more specifically,
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
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
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