https://www.brettryan.dev/tags/jq/Recent content in Jq on Brett RyanHugoenSun, 24 May 2026 00:23:14 +1000https://www.brettryan.dev/posts/gitlab-credit-usage/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:23:14 +1000https://www.brettryan.dev/posts/gitlab-credit-usage/<p>Through this article, we&rsquo;re going to explore the <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/cli/">GitLab CLI (glab)</a> to help us query <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes/">compute minutes</a> consumed and remaining.</p> <p>I created this helper script as I was iteratively making a lot of mistakes on my <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/">GitLab</a> runners which was eating into my free 400 minutes that&rsquo;s given when you sign up. I will now periodically run this to see how close I am and if I need to purchase additional credits.</p> <p>Creating our own tools and helpers not only save us time in the long-run, but they do way more than that, they teach us more than we would have ever known about what&rsquo;s available and give us incrementally acquired knowledge on many auxiliary tools and languages that we can flex throughout our careers.</p>