Thomas Mertz

Essentially eternally 12 years old

2023

  • As I mentioned in my previous post I bought a car last year. I have been very happy with it, but the headunit in (which was cheap Chinese thing) annoyed me. It would crash often, and just generally be unreliable. Also, in the 2006 Honda Civic when you remove the stock head unit you lose…

  • About a year ago I bought a car that I have been eyeing ever since I first saw it. The 2006 Honda Civic hatchback with the space shuttle facelift that relaunched the Civic in Europe. It’s an astonishingly cool car, and I was very lucky. The one I found was in mint condition, and loaded…

  • I still write a ton of code. Code needs to be maintained. That means keeping an eye on how your code performs. While talking through that process with a friend and a client, I thought it might be interesting to write a bit about my process. Git is the common thread I use Gitlab for…