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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

#ifcomp is over for another year. Congratulations to everyone. A game I was tangentially involved in placed 16th out of a field of 72! Final results: ifcomp.org/comp/2026

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I've plugged this before but I can plug it again: Wild Ride to Earth is a fantastic sci-fi #interactivefiction game written in #choicescript where you try many and various ways to get back home after being abducted by aliens. It's an entry in the #IFComp […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Inspired by a #metafilter fanfare post, I finally got around to seeing the original Most Dangerous Game #film. It's pretty good - weirdly paced by today's standards but short enough (62 minutes) to never be boring. The version on YouTube is high quality.

A still from The Most Dangerous game - Count Zaroff is kissing Eve's hand as she looks away with a worried expression.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I have been singing the praises of @Estimania lately but I never expected that I would become part of the answer to this one. I am the MortalWombat mentioned in the answer! Amusingly, I was way off with my guess even. I knew I sometimes answer the quiz very […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screenshot of an Estimania question and answer. The question is: "A new puzzle drops at midnight UTC. How many seconds after that did the fastest player ever finish all 5 questions?"

The answer is "Shoutout to MortalWombat, of Sep 8th they blitzed through the whole puzzle in just 1 minute and 20.3 seconds!"

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Not everyone is happy with AI generated code. Saw this on the red line this morning. #vibecoding #mbta #aislop

A defaced ad for AI coding. The copy reads “Vibe code. Ship code.”

The P in ship has been changed to a T

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Punk turkey is not going to let anyone tell it where to be.

Closeup of a turkey on a lawn, in the background is a sign telling people not to feed animals because it attracts turkeys.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

The 2026 inkjam has just finished and my entry, That Sink, can now be played. It is a short, colorful choice-based adventure that takes the jam's theme, "Let That Sink In" a little too literally. #inkjam #interactivefiction #indiegame andrewstephens.itch.io/that-sink

Illustration from the That Sink game depicting a kitchen with all of the appliances mysteriously missing.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

[I like pictures of spiders by some people don't] Want to see some pictures of really big spiders? I took these on a (not so) recent trip to the rain forests and caves of Borneo. sheep.horse/2026/8/borneo_-_spiders… #blog #spider #travel

A very large spider sitting on a mossy log in the Borneo rain forest. It is night time but the subject is lit by touches.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Some pictures from our recent trip to Borneo, where we saw some amazing animal life. sheep.horse/2026/8/borneo_-_animals… #blog #travel

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

[Spider] I think I modelled a pretty cool looking spider in Blender as a splash image for a recent blog post.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Time to update MacOSX, just a point release, should be quick ... 18.4 Gigs? What's in this thing?

Screenshot of the MacOSX progress dialog for downloading a software update showing that the total size of the download is 18.39Gb.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

New Zealand is in the expanded #worldcup at 2500:1 odds, just behind powerhouses such as Cape Verde Islands. So you are telling me there is a chance… #newzealand

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

I don’t understand reddit. They have a borderline monopoly on message boards and a huge audience. Why do they keep pushing people towards their app using an unclosable popover that blocks the website. They already have vast amounts of valuable data on their […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

[Spoiler for the final? screen of Moss Moss] And to prove I am hardcore, a picture of the completion screen (at least I think this is the final screen).

Screenshot of the final? screen of Moss Moss. The text reads "Fully Mossed! You really mossed in all. Thank you for playing"

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

In this post I explain why and how I am experimenting with blocking HTTP1.1 on my site. sheep.horse/2026/2/i_am_experimenti…

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

Ha, I own the sheep.horse domain where I host my blog and projects. Some fool thinks I am going to pay them $500usd for the sheephorse.com variant. I am not interested but they are starting to bargain. Let’s see how low they can go.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Hey, a little project of mine just hit the front page of #metafilter. It always nice to get a little attention. www.metafilter.com/211453/Dot-Battl…

Screenshot of a physics toy, balls bouncing around fighting each other

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

[Spoils todays NYT Connections puzzle] The first line of the NYT Connections puzzle is pretty funny considering they got called out by Only Connect a few weeks ago. (IMO, the NYT Connections puzzle is certainly a directly rip-off of the Only Connect […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

First line of the NYT Connection puzzle today, the items read from left to right "only" "connect" "olive" "branch"

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

The quarters in #Panama are so cool I almost don’t want to feed them into the washing machine at this laundromat. But I also really need clean clothes.

Two quarters resting in my fingers showing the heads and tails side. The tails side is a view of the canal with the water filled in with blue.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Since my server got hacked I have been extra careful and locked down everything. Maybe a little too careful, I locked myself out last night. Luckily I could still log on with my hosting company's recovery console. This is my current fail2ban jail for sshd […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A screenshot of the output of the fail2ban client status command showing over a hundred currectly banned IPs.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

As the owner of a little-trafficked #blog, there is nothing better than waking up to an unexpected spike for something you wrote months ago.

Screenshot showing the hit counts for three posts on my blog for the last 24 hours.

Voyage of the Marigold Authors Notes is the top of the list at 417 hits.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Watch a battle for survival play out over a few minutes on your screen. An allegory for existence? A meditation aid? An excuse to watch some colored balls bounce around for a minute or two? Dot Battle is all these things […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screen shot from the dot battle toy. Colored balls, shot from canons, bounce around the playfield.

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Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon @sheephorse.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Things that don’t really need a Bluetooth speaker : The hotel bathroom mirror.

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