All the cool kids are on fire these days – Dark_Arc
Permission Denied
In this intermission
We discuss permission
The pitfall of so many Owners
Is it False or True?
-1, 0, 1, 2?
Myriad options are shown us
System default false
Quickens the pulse
As the console root is denied
Whatever keys of PEx
Your visitors collect
Sponge’s gatekeeper will decide
Outside of a block, a book is a man’s best friend.
Inside a block, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho FLARD
Inside a Block
Worlds present opportunities
Inspiring creative communities
Myriad players soon at ease
With the lay of the land
Hidden in every block
May lie secrets to unlock
Read the history of a rock
See its future being sand
But there is room for more
For every block may store
A long litany of lore
Concealed in it’s data
So when you next explore
And a dirt block in the floor
Recites Star Wars Episode IV
Ponder the sanity of it’s creator
The historical nomenclature of CPU architecture sounds like a stroll through the countryside
Surfing Architecture
Cross the Sandy Bridge and on
Past the Ivy and cosy Haswell
Progress never ever takes a break
Leap beyond the Devils’ Canyon
Cast pennies into the Broad Well
Then jump into the fresh Skylake
Something important was destined to go here, but right now, I’m hungry…
Hungry Sponge
To feed this hungry beast
We need Food implemented
A very complicated feast
Largely made of PITA bread
The fate of Sponge is at steak
And the pie is ever humble
It should be a piece of Cake
The way the cookie crumbles
Now for a report on the latest experiments in Yggdrasyl Laboratories, where the word Danger is covered with happy smiley faces to make you feel safer
OverEnhancement
Modding folder overfull
Artifacts unforgettable
Developers indefatigable
It’s all incompatible with Optifine
iPhone is unsettable
Milk starts smelling terrible
Frogs rain by the bucketfull
Reality is incompatible with Optifine
Totally indigestable
Surely not a vegetable
Flavour quite regrettable
FLARD is incompatible with Optifine
“Everything is Changing; Everything is Changed.” - Big Weird Thing, Stannard Ridgway
Sponge- The Epic: Part 35.123
Odd noises emerge from inside Sponge hive
Continuing change proves the beast is alive
Data emerged from its second cocoon
To be joined by event refactoring soon
Plugins inflating the nascent State
With economies, jobs, and real estate
Teleport perks and titles galore
Groups, kits, elevators and more
We follow along on the commons and forum
Doing whatever we think is good for 'em
Making good use of the things that we find
Emergent creations from Sponge’s hive-mind
3RR0R 3RR0R 3RR0R 3RR0R
When in Nettingham
The hunter tracks its many prey
Gauging how far each is away
Comparing all to best advantage
Stealing every better vantage
Pathing through the tall Spongewood
The hashing scheme of Robin Hood
Optimising search and store
Robbing the rich, leaving the poor
"The left of the right is the center.
I don’t know where I was going with that." - gratimax
Drafty in here, isn’t it?
A challenge with writing Sponge’s Docs
Sometimes when devs dump data to write
Changes can follow with no end in sight
Much like Minecraft’s endless blocks
They see new things that may need changing
Bugfixes, patches, refactorings galore
Optimisations, minimisations, and more
Then documentation needs re-arranging
Whilst this may all seem frustrating
Nevertheless this helps development
Ensuring all the kinks are un-bent
Making sure it will be worth the waiting
This is not a Goat.
Happy Birthday Haiku
Sponge is one year old
Her eyes are now wide open
She sees the future
Sponge is one year old
Too young for driving license
Someone will pay dear
Sponge is one year old
Gentle is the parents face
Spattered with mashed rusk
{blood_} we refactored all of our events, was a nightmare. no more sources, all causes now
{Grum} At least it was for a good cause
The Eggs
Eggs in one basket
Sponge super-chicken arise!
And now there are two…
We now we have a new sock-puppet for the Poriferan Pantheon, no less and none other than the princess of putrefaction, the demi-royal Sponge Diplomatic Corpse. Huzzah!
Deutschenspongenieurenkorps
Gluing words together
Makes Sponge classes unique
Akin to German and the
Komposita word technique
Sponge’s scribes do stress
To continue this tradition
Reorganising the weirdness
For every new edition
So do not be surprised
When you’re developing later
To be interrupted by
SpongeForgeDataExterminator
Reef the sails and swab the deck, the good Ship Sponge sails ever onward into the inky blankness
Sea Sponge Shanty
Seasick sailors, all topsy-turvy
Sustenance keeps ye free from scurvy
Spongy fruit, it be changin’ with the season.
Tantalisin’ flavours, be it rhyme or reason.
If ye calls the API appalling
Get ye ready for some swift keelhauling
No room for slackers in this show
Knuckle down there sailors, row!
Latest News: DATA API CONFIRMS, EVERYTHING IS A LARGE MUSHROOM
Fuel for Change
Faithful Spongineers, be not afraid
Of the bounty of change arriving
The State of Sponge has been delayed
Enabling further gallant striving
They break everything to make everything
With extra bits left over as a bonus
Bakers sing of the message they bring
That even evil masterminds need donuts
Celebrate the Sponge Anniversary with a cake or two. Here’s my favourite recipe, put to rhyme
A simple and delicious cake with a sugary cinnamon crust.
Streusel Recipe
Soften or melt 125 grams of butter
Mix vigorously with 0.75 cups of sugar
Until fluffy and beaten through
Next, mix in a pair of beaten eggs
Half a teaspoon of vanilla essence
And half a cup of milk too
Add 250g self-raising flour and fold in
Pour it into a greased 10-inch cake tin
Then get a coffee cup to make crumble in
Mixing together 1 tablespoon softened butter
2 tablespoons each of plain flour and sugar
And 2-4 teaspoons of cinnamon.
The result should be like sticky breadcrumbs
Sprinkle evenly over the level mix as it comes
Finally, cook 45 minutes at 180*C
Allow to cool before removing from the tin
Or serve hot with apple, maple syrup, and cream
You can add whatever fruits suit your fancy
After assisting O with some Physics problems, I continued my research in the Lab…
Thermodynamic Rule #-1
The universe tends to a state of disorder
The reasoning is not too hard
Diffusion expands the entropic border
Where everything turns to FLARD
Sponge’s expansion causes cooling
The Core growing adiabatically
Gibbs free energy knows no fooling
Chaos is inevitable, mathematically
Lost and all alone in the codebase, the stray typo cried “HEPL”
Error, Fix Thyself
Typos in your template
Can be hard to mitigate
Luckily we have the tools we need
The SpongeMassager will fix it
Squeeze it all together and mix it
Making for an entertaining read
Cobbling, patching, nerfing
Random code-style surfing
Novel ways of making more with less
It can even contain puns
It’s fine, as long as it runs
Let third party software fix the mess
When the test world literally exploded, I was absolutely delighted
One Thing or Another
When you want a WGen showstopper
Here is the easy way to hack it
Exchanging Blockstates with Swappa
In the Sponge Substitution Racket
Redstone trees with TNT leaves
Are simply a modest example
Populator threads it readily weaves
So upon your world they may trample
Lakes of FLARD and fiery grass
Deposits of cake, most tasty
Pistons for flowers, Lava for glass
Air made of barriers, for your safety
I was bitten once by a caveat. Nasty little beasts, they breed in dark corners.
Conception of Perception
When left becomes right and up is down
The world is whirling round and around
Every thing is new to dawning perception
Mysterious causes evading detection
Senses adjusting to the wild panorama
Gradually refining the sensory armour
Understanding our range of influence
Experimenting with points of confluence
Studying the macrocosm yields to the topic
Of examining events in the microscopic
Yet even if all is not infinitely divisible
Activities beyond this point are invisible
Thus we now rely on the realm of machines
Complex calculations to see what it all means
Consider this as their complexity evolves
What defines reality, each question they solve?
Welcome to yesterday. The universe has reached the elastic point and it all runs backwards from here.
The Case of the Upper
There once was a problem with Git
We fed a fresh doc into it
The result was crappy
Travis was not happy
The build.sh ended in it
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E~MCP
There was a programmer essential
Whose poetic lines grew increasingly voluminous in an alarming fashion that could undoubtedly be described by an impartial observer as exponential