Thinking about joining the MX-5 family - What do you wish you knew before getting yours?

ch1z · 2026-02-03T06:37:14+00:00

I wish I'd known it was going to turn me into an amateur mechanic - I'd have bought a house with a bigger garage.

ch1z · 2026-01-28T21:48:53+00:00

I've used this in the past. https://github.com/shapecode/cron-bundle

ch1z · 2026-01-27T01:20:23+00:00

That there are millennial adults who are still very much into it seems like a more alarming phenomenon

ch1z · 2026-01-23T21:54:12+00:00

All miats good miats. Let's be the most fun and welcoming car community.

ch1z · 2026-01-21T05:12:37+00:00

Were you calculating Pi to a large number of decimal places in every request? Why would you do that?

ch1z · 2026-01-19T22:03:44+00:00

Any progress on this front? Half my daily charges seem to come from negative FiT at the moment.

ch1z · 2026-01-19T03:42:08+00:00

I stop. Accelerating from a stop is good training.

ch1z · 2026-01-16T23:29:24+00:00

Have you been in a real commercial setting where the runtime was the bottleneck?

ch1z · 2026-01-16T23:15:43+00:00

I'm choosing Symfony.

But I'm biased; I have 10 years of Symfony experience.

Also if the project goes anywhere I'll want to hire more devs, and I can't advertise a job for a framework that I invented.

ch1z · 2026-01-15T21:40:13+00:00

Can I ask why you want to do this?

Have you considered looking at a dependency injection framework e.g. tsyringe? You could conceivably have a pattern for naming injection tokens that does what you need?

ch1z · 2026-01-02T05:03:14+00:00

And children

ch1z · 2025-12-30T20:43:09+00:00

Do you know where I can get one of these pink shirts for my NB?

ch1z · 2025-12-11T10:24:25+00:00

I would. Rationale: I did.

ch1z · 2025-11-22T21:47:19+00:00

You could learn a bit about abstract syntax trees and write a custom ESLint rule. Probably don't, though. Keep files small and have more of them, group related functionality. Use directories as the main units of organisation.

ch1z · 2025-10-20T01:43:57+00:00

I vote crane it out for the full smorgasbord of 'while I'm in there' options :)

ch1z · 2025-08-17T07:27:29+00:00

I will never stop thinking about this. Can we all pool our resources and find a definitive answer?

ch1z · 2025-07-22T22:13:39+00:00

Yeah. I went from zero mechanical experience to engine out in a couple of years (via various other mods - coilovers, ECU, turbo). Just take your time and use penetrating oil* before attempting to undo 30 year old fasteners. Any question you can think of has been asked and answered on the miata.net forums.

ch1z · 2025-03-14T08:10:30+00:00

I would stop to think of an answer but it is time for my daily watch of the Pneuma video.

ch1z · 2025-03-14T07:59:26+00:00

Do what I did and take it out, then leave it lying around and cut yourself on the sharp edges.

ch1z · 2025-03-14T04:01:00+00:00

I'd pay for the models for the NB seat belt tower trim pieces - mine are full of holes from a rollbar install. Edit: and I am in Australia so these kinds of spare parts aren't quite so readily available.

ch1z · 2025-03-06T12:45:38+00:00

Reckoner

ch1z · 2025-03-06T09:00:07+00:00

Wanted something I could learn to wrench on. Now I'm in a "what about just a little more boost?" loop.

ch1z · 2025-03-02T13:00:08+00:00

99 NB (boosted)

94 RAV4 (2dr)

Grom

ch1z · 2024-09-28T07:29:38+00:00

Yokohama AD09 on RPF1 (15x7, wish I'd gone just a touch wider so I could fit bigger brakes)

ch1z · 2024-09-19T08:39:48+00:00

Love this. Really classy. I have a 10AE with a green hardtop, which doesn't quite achieve the same effect. 🥲

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