TIL: OSC 52 🔗
I’m working on setting up a mini PC to serve as my homelab server instead of my MacBook (more details to come in a future post) and I’ve configured it [...]
Erica Pisani
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LLMs as a primary user of APIs and SDKs 🔗
I have an upcoming talk at the “J on the Beach” conference about experiments in tooling within Sentry's Python SDK to better support AI-assisted devel [...]
Reading Notes from 'Simplicity' and 'Kill it with Fire' 🔗
After a long stretch of only reading articles and documentation, I've been getting back into software engineering books. I wanted something grounded [...]
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 r [...]
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 leg [...]
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 i [...]
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 da [...]
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 h [...]
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 h [...]
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 bucke [...]
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 Loc [...]
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 in [...]
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 manif [...]
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 s [...]
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 [...]