Terry Boon

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Enjoying John Caird's "Theatre Craft", a hefty A-Z on working as a director. I don't expect to be directing a play (or having any other involvement more active than sitting in a theatre watching one!), but liking the insights on how it all works, run through with entertaining anecdotes and dry humour.
(For example, on angel investors in the theatre: "The term should really be confined to those who

1 views Enjoying John Caird's "Theatre Craft", a hefty A-Z on working as a director. I don't expect to be directing a play (or having any other involvement more active than sitting in a theatre watching one!), but liking the insights on how it all works, run through with entertaining anecdotes and dry humour. (For example, on angel investors in the theatre: "The term should really be confined to those who

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

3.1%

Engagement vs followers

Apr 2024

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: I had #Boggle in the 1980s: the game of shaking lettered dice in · 3 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.18 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.3×

Follows 184 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I had #Boggle in the 1980s: the game of shaking lettered dice into a 4x4 grid & making words from adjacent letters (as the sand trickled through the egg-timer). Sometimes the grid would end up "nice", other times not... Now software engineer Dan Vanderkam proves (with neat expla… ★ 3

An exercise wheel, a magnetic sensor, a Python script to convert the data to a .FIT file, and an automated upload to Strava... all to track the running of little Mollie the hamster :-) https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/… New Eclectic Stacks blog post: “Not X, but Y” is now a tell-tale sign of AI writing - but in Daniel C. Dennett's 2013 book "Intuition Pumps" he was also warning that the pattern could indicate a writer attempting a logical sleight of hand.… ★ 1 #DaveBrubeckDay prompted me to finish this brief blog post about musical pieces with variant time signatures - taking five (or not), rejoicing greatly, and being flown to the moon: https://www.eclecticstacks.com/post/unexpected-music-time-… (New Eclectic Stacks blog post) Hacker News discussion of #sliderules reminded me of the paper cut-out slide rules in the children's book of games and puzzles, "Nut-Crackers" (1971). I revisit some of the other unexpected #maths in that bo… New "Eclectic Stack" blog post: Getting a Rubik's Cube again after 40 years, I look at how I solved it then (with trusty copy of "You Can Do The Cube" at my side) and the approaches nowadays - for beginners, speedcubers, and the omniscient…

Enjoying John Caird's "Theatre Craft", a hefty A-Z on working as a director. I don't expect to be directing a play (or having any other involvement more active than sitting in a theatre watching one!), but liking the insights on how it all… ★ 1 Article on creating a text adventure: discussion of breadth (many locations/objects but generically implemented vs smaller scope with more detail and interaction), technical challenges in writing a modern game, and a programmer's thoughts … ★ 2 I enjoyed occasional childhood visits to its library. I like its cinema, galleries, and theatre (remembering seeing Shakespearean Julius Caesar and mathematical Ramanujan, which I think was the first time I saw that the infinite sum 1 + 2 … ★ 1 How easily can you tell if text such as a hotel review is by a human or AI? You can test your skill in this survey run by Lancaster University: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3WrOLkOBfzUo8DA Tried after fascinating talk … ★ 2 Liked the comic at https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/plural-2 on plurals of filenames - despite never having considered calling multiple ".docx" files ".docxen", for which my colleagues are probably grateful. (Nor did I, when occasionally … ★ 1 Updated two PCs to #Windows11. How did I know when it was done? The taskbar was in the centre instead to the left-hand side. What's the first thing I did? Set it back to being on the left, with the Start button in an easily-hit corner, as …

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

hachyderm.io

A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

On Mastodon since

Apr 2024

An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.

👁️Averages 2 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

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Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

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High Data confidence

Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~3.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.

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About

Interests in games & stories; maths & language; technology, security & open source; and thoughtful politics & law. Working in banking IT/risk/regulation. Living in London, UK. Views are my own, not representative of an employer or any other party, and boosts≠ endorsements.

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