Home¶

Hello! These are my notes. The source for this site is available in the bcarranza/notes project on gitlab.com. This is (the latest iteration of) my digital garden at work. These are evergreen notes. Like everything, these notes and this site are in draft form. This enables me to get started with scribbling things down and worrying about the rest later. These notes are available at notes.brie.dev.

`whoami`¶

Oh, hi! My name is Brie Carranza. I am a Staff Support Engineer at GitLab. I joined GitLab in May 2020, just after GitLab 13.0 was released. 🦊 💜

Topics¶

Bookmarks¶

One Liners

🌎 External¶

Useful Tools¶

Links¶

Every now and then, something rings a bell. Sometimes it's relevant, sometimes it's not. To speed the time to find the ringing bell, see Rang a Bell.

Bug Reports

Python Web Server w/ HTTP Basic Authentication¶

I'm looking at these options:

I mark Geo-related issues of interest with the :globe_with_meridians: emoji. I then use this link to filter for issues where My-Reaction is that emoji (🌐)).

Here's a list of the emoji I use in issues:

💡 - Pipeline Insights
🉐 - GraphQL
- This is the Japanese “Bargain” Button emoji which is referred to as :ideograph_advantage:.

Projects¶

Projects I use often... ...also projects I don't use often but want to be able to find quickly when I need them.

bcarranza/detecting-secrets - my test project for Secret Detection
bcarranza/configs - example configs
- mostly for GitLab test environments that are not in GET or gitlabsandbox.cloud
- Configs for CLI Tools
gitlab-com/support/toolbox/gitlab-smoke-tests
bcarranza/openapi

There are more example projects on the Secure Pod page.

Go-To Test Projects¶

These are the test projects I go to very often.

bcarranza/detecting-secrets - my test project for Secret Detection
bcarranza/such-quality
- example MR
Container Scanning Test

Miscellaneous¶

Interesting Stuff

https://circleci.com/blog/smoke-tests-in-cicd-pipelines/

Behind the Scenes¶

I write the Markdown for this site (mostly) in Obsidian.

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of
a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

That Markdown is converted to HTML and deployed to GitLab Pages via GitLab CI. The job that does the ✨ magic ✨ uses MkDocs. While this set up works quite well for me, there are a few downsides.

Obsidian is not currently open source.
I permit "mega commits". I use bad commit messages and commit a bunch of files all at once.
- I do that here in the spirit of getting things out of my head and in my notes site where they can be useful to others as quickly as possible.
Some page names have spaces in them.
- 👻😨😱😯😮😧
- I don't like this but...here we are.
- Maybe I'll move to something like StandardNotes one day but I like pretty things, enough to accept URLs with %20.