An Ancient and Apocryphal Story put to verse. Damned if I can find any reference to it any more…
How to write an OS
I relate a story for skeptical ears
Of an ancient OS from Russia
Hand written by soviet engineers
Space-Race providing the pressure
Of note was their novel error cascade
Supplying the reasons for failure
Recognising computer faults they made
With Warnings increasingly Dire
The final error on their fateful list
Most worrying of all in their verse
The list of errors ended with this:
Something is Wrong with the Universe
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Any tool that does the job is sufficient. A hammer, for example, can open a tin of beans.
Taken for a rIDE
Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans
Competing in so many scenes
This band of brothers
Looms over the others
Who use Notepad++, it seems.
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Sponge Floodgates have been thrown back, unleashing the Hordes of darkness keen swarm of devs upon a fledgling Git. Dance the Dance of Unleashment!
Let it Flow
Open the gates to all on Git
Let the crowd onto the ride
Pour their wit into each bit
The swelling of a PR tide
Information flowing smoother
Documentation of Sponge improved
I now predict Sponge’s future
Changelog 1.0: FLARD removed
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I like a good picture. A few million of them must be a million times better.
Cleanup Fail
HDD needed a service
Choking on the files
Sitting in Old Servers
A million* Dynmap tiles
* [Actually 1,406,513 - using 6.16 GB]
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Creative bouts may apparently be simulated by wearing a tight hat.
The Dao of Sponge
Pu, the uncarved block
Perception sans prejudice
… Is it made of FLARD?
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Dapper Hats and Bow Ties, Cravats and Shiny Shoes. Welcome to the new Google Style Guide 
Sponge the Epic: Part 17.202
Plan coalescing, the API stands
A marvel of Sponge innovation
The message now is Calling All Hands
For the imminent implementation
Gatekeepers to the repository
Heroes must watch all the while
To work in Sponge’s laboratory
You’ve simply got to have style
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Apparently this is less than 117 words. Now I want a car with 117 wheels…
SpongeDocs Awakens
Tidings of Joy, SpongeDocs is live!
Gaze at docs.spongepowered.org
Fed by GitHub to grow and thrive
Git PRs help fight through the fog
Neither Sponge nor Docs are finished
So we call you to rise to the test
Find where the data is diminished
And send us your best Pull Request
There’s much to be done on the pages
By those with a developer’s eye
We need to inculcate like sages
A solid grasp of the Sponge API
So bring on the queries and quibbles
Let the load be shared and spread
Many eyes will help isolate troubles
And ensure that SpongeDocs is read
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Quark Quark, cried the Quantum Duck, and dived beneath the foam
Sponge Ducks
GitHub fills with wishes
To make the repo grow
Lining up the issues
SpongeDucks all in a row
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At this time of year, the Romans had a rather different celebration in mind.
Saturnalia
The season’s peak, a festival
Of Anarchy and Chaos
Lawless citizens riot and revel
Order seen with pathos
Somewhat distant from the level
Of Santa’s jolly bathos
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Never play dead near a Mad Scientist. They’ll DO things to you.
I should know, I did things to me when I was dead.
When and Why
Spigot fans are saying
1.8.1 is running fine
But no-one is delaying
Sponge release 'til 1.9
Let them be compared
Isolate every problem
The issues that are aired
Sponge is here to solve them
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Celebrating a milestone, here is Sponge Poem number 100 (or 01100100 for the decimal-impaired)
Aphorism #100
One hundred days and counting
Since the birth of Sponge’s Forum
Issues keep on mounting
As we seek solutions for 'em.
One hundred compositions
Cast onto the Forum’s floor
With nearly daily editions -
Hurry up, or there will be more.
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I think I’ll sum up Sponge’s Existence.
Sponge: A history
Oh, Bukkit had a Monopoly,
only competitor as far as they could see,
Was Spigot MC.
But a storm descended fast,
the crew mutinied.
The captain Wolverness
had doomed them all at sea.
Spigot went down just as quickly.
To save the desperate community,
two people had an idea, you see.
Fire the GitHub repo! Yaah!
Fire the Discourse forum! Yaah!
They - called - it - Sponge.
The rest, as they say, is history.
© 2014 ButterDev
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An ode to a midsummer morning spent banging my head against a wall…
Restart Restart
Hardware needed rearranging
The Floppy Drive estranging
New HDD added to the Bay
Cable cluster massive tangle
Fingers lost in the strangle
Feeling in the box to find my way
Finally ready for restart
I start to tear my hair apart
As it restarts again, and again, and again…
Everything was re-reconnected
The Craftbox was resurrected
Still grumbling if it was worth all the pain
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There is a time and a place for soap. Preferably not in sandwiches.
Sponge and the Tower of Babble
Our Poly-lingual Multiplex
SpongeDocs on Transifex
We’re still a long way from the Finnish
Topping the request list
The truly cunning linguist
Who wants to translate it into English
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The End is something that usually comes before the Beginning, except in this sentence
Sponge the Epic: Part 16.933
Great leaps forward
And the odd leap back
Keeps the crowd awed
And Sponge on Track
Documentary interruption
As the task list is eroded
Its hard to write instruction
For things not yet encoded
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If Acronym was an Acronym would you care what it stood for?
What’s in an API
Always Preceding Implementation
A Ponderous Instantiation
Ably Performing Integration
Another Pleasing Innovation
Assets Presenting Interfaces
And Profoundly Interlaces
All Proposed Intentions
As Playfield Interventions
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Unleash the inner profundity, lest it argue about the colour of your socks
Heliopause
Reaching to us from the quiet
The ominous silence of the New Year
Gifts gather dust as joy ebbs
Surface ripples few and far between
Belying frantic turbulence in the depths
Growing as it rises to meet the day
Only grandiloquent motions are visible
Standing at the edge of the vortex we await
Impatient for a glorious dawn.
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Cats share many properties with liquids, but (in my experimentsence) they remain completely immiscible
Olds and News
Sponge is squeezin’ along
News permeates the throng
Summaries are Soaked Up
Mixins are Mixin’ it Up
SpongeDocs are fit for a song
State of Sponge meet in 2 weeks
We shall hear from our Overlord Geeks
Grant this wish today:
An ETA on the ETA
But louder than words, action speaks
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Behold the Amazing Duck: It can Walk, Swim and Fly. It also tastes quite good.
Learning to Quack
Dev Issues disgorge
What Sponge Events lack
Can it quack like Forge?
It’s a hard nut to quack.
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Resubmitted from #spongedocs for the amusement or annoyance of all
Terror of Sponge Blob
The tide is turning
Our new bulwark is prepared
(Sponge absorbs ocean)
Developers Absorbed
Construction of Artifacts
Sponge on the Rampage
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