🦄🌈 Brie Carranza’s Blog

A guide to applying the CREDIT values, based on my time at GitLab and beyond.

The tools and configs I use with my Xteink X4.

🔭 A look at 25 things that earned their place in my annual reflection.

A review of my reading workflow and toolkit ten months post-Goodreads.

A look back at my fifth year working at GitLab.

A few notes on one of my favorite tools to use and recommend.

Using KOReader and PocketBook to replace Google Play Books and upgrade my reading workflow.

Thoughts and notes after a month using uv.

A look back at the things I enjoyed, experienced and decided during in 2024.

🚀 A difficult but rewarding year.

An initial exploration of how useful a SAST tool like YARA could be for analyzing Gitaly and Redis logs when troubleshooting and performing systems administration tasks.

How I became a Staff Support Engineer.

🪞 Reflections on my goals and accomplishments for the year.

Using k6 to check if http.OCSP_STATUS_GOOD.

A collection of things I learned while publishing a Python package to PyPI in 2023.

A quick update about the latest release of pastebin-bisque!

My third annual look back at the last year on the GitLab Support team.

A collection of notes and reflections after reading and discussing The Staff Engineer's Path.

This is the written version of my Troubleshooting like Batman talk.

Generating mindmaps with Markdown: HTML export included!

A round-up of interesting things that I read, shipped and thought (a lot) about in February 2023.

A curated list of links accompanied by notes about the things I found interesting this month.

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Using hurl to automate website testing.

HTTP Cutie Cats

How I managed.

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A CI pipeline template using the Trello API to monitor the list of public Trello boards for users of interest.

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