Thomas Mertz

Essentially eternally 12 years old

2018

  • Growing pains

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    5 min read

    Preface; this is just some scattered thoughts and reaction to events that unfolded in the larping community today. There’s probably a ton of stuff that I need to elaborate on at some point.  I started larping when I was 13 years old, some 20+ years ago. Back then we were the weird kids running around…

  • missed connections; emergency exit row

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    1 min read

    You: Lovely infectious laughter, brunette, travelling with your friend. Me: tall chubby red bearded supergeek. We started laughing about the Chinese gentleman who thought we were waving at him when we were yelling at him to take a step backward, so a young mother could get into her seat next to her child. We never…

  • Private webhooks

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    3 min read

    I was looking into setting up my own incoming webhook server, because webhooks are super cool and useful for a variety of things. And also because I am a giant nerd and wanted to play around with some stuff.  Now, there are very few ready made components for this out there, so I had to do…