The House Is Back, and So Is Trillium 🔗
The last few weeks have been exciting for me. Not just because I spoke at my first conference in two years in Spain at “J on the Beach”, but also beca [...]
Erica Pisani
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Highlights from "J on the Beach" 🔗
After hearing about what a great experience people have had at this conference over the years by speakers and attendees alike, I finally made it out t [...]
Trillium Updates: Adjusting models, prompts, and other configuration 🔗
For those who are new to my blog, I've been working on a side project that creates a weekly AI-generated newsletter that summarizes the bills that are [...]
TIL: “ours" and "theirs" git merge strategies 🔗
When I’m either: working on an experimental branch that I have no intention of merging into main, yet want to incorporate updates into; or if I know [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]