🧭 Where CREDIT is due
A guide to applying the CREDIT values, based on my time at GitLab and beyond.
🦄🌈 Brie Carranza’s Blog
🚀 This is a blog by Brie Carranza.
Latest posts
🤏 Making my tiny e-reader practical: a guide to the Xteink X4
The tools and configs I use with my Xteink X4.
🪞 2025 in review
🔭 A look at 25 things that earned their place in my annual reflection.
✌️ Goodbye Goodreads
A review of my reading workflow and toolkit ten months post-Goodreads.
🪞 Reflecting on a fifth year at GitLab
A look back at my fifth year working at GitLab.
✨ Use gron to grep JSON
A few notes on one of my favorite tools to use and recommend.
OK, Reader
Using KOReader and PocketBook to replace Google Play Books and upgrade my reading workflow.
Python Made Better with uv
Thoughts and notes after a month using uv.
🪞 A look back at 2024
A look back at the things I enjoyed, experienced and decided during in 2024.
4️⃣ Four Things about my Fourth Year at GitLab
🚀 A difficult but rewarding year.
🧪 Using YARA for log analysis
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.
April 2024 - My Journey to Staff Support Engineer
How I became a Staff Support Engineer.
🪞 2023, a year
🪞 Reflections on my goals and accomplishments for the year.
November 2023 - 🔐 OCSP Response 🧪 Testing with k6
Using k6 to check if http.OCSP_STATUS_GOOD.
October 2023 - Packaging a Python Program for PyPI: Tools, Tips + GitLab CI Config
A collection of things I learned while publishing a Python package to PyPI in 2023.
September 2023 - 🚀 Announcing pastebin-bisque v1.0
A quick update about the latest release of pastebin-bisque!
May 2023 - Three Years at GitLab 🦊💜
My third annual look back at the last year on the GitLab Support team.
April 2023 - A Staff (Support) Engineer's Path
A collection of notes and reflections after reading and discussing The Staff Engineer's Path.
March 2023 - General Purpose Troubleshooting Principles
This is the written version of my Troubleshooting like Batman talk.
Using Markdown for Mindmaps with Markmap
Generating mindmaps with Markdown: HTML export included!
February 2023 - Good Reads + GraphQL, k8s for Cats and ChatGPT in Academia
A round-up of interesting things that I read, shipped and thought (a lot) about in February 2023.
January 2023 - Awesome Articles and Cool Commands
A curated list of links accompanied by notes about the things I found interesting this month.
Tools I added to my toolbox in 2022 🧰
Here's how I did it.
Automate HTTP Testing with hurl: Generate HTML and JUnit reports via GitLab CI
Using hurl to automate website testing.
HTTP Response Status Cats
HTTP Cutie Cats
A second year at GitLab
How I managed.
Automating my personal DNS setup, part 1
Here's how I did it.
A look back at one year at GitLab
Here's how I did it.
DIY Cat Cave
Here's how I did it.
My 2021 Web Development Stack: Gridsome + Firebase + GitLab = <3
Here's how I did it.
Set up and control elgato Stream Deck Mini on Linux
Here's how I did it.
Monitor Public Trello Boards
A CI pipeline template using the Trello API to monitor the list of public Trello boards for users of interest.
Markdown to HTML5 with Beautiful CSS with Pandoc
Here's how I did it.
Ansible role testing with multiple Linux distros, using GitLab Container Registry
Here's how I did it.