I like to make use of and encourage lesser-known FOSS projects.
Fossies is a good example. It's a very nice FOSS directory
and archive run by an older Coder named Jens. The site is located
at:
Jens went on vacation for about two weeks. He didn't announce his
return, but I noticed that he was back. So, I sent him a Fossies
Song. Here's the song followed by his response.
1.
A day without Fossies
Is one of total Lossies
There is no coin to toss
Without FOSS it's a LOSS
2.
There are many places for code
Github is one abode
But each abode lightens load
And such abode means no forbode
3.
Code all day and all night
Code all night while sun shines bright
Sleep all day and shout hooray
Reach for a bottle of code
Jens' response:
You have a good sense and very attentive eyes:
Yes, yesterday evening I and my car came after
4 weeks and 5555 kilometers from Germany to the
nearly southernmost point of Europe (Peleponnes,
Greece) back at home.
Your surprising poem has made me very happy!
Thanks
Jens
This is the advice that I offered to Edgy McEdge on the occasion of
his 19th birthday.
1.
Years to come, in short, to sum
It's not just a job
It's adventured
Don't proceed as though indentured
2.
Nothing adventured, nothing gained
Analysis doesn't need to be fine-grained
Too serious is likely insaned
In the end, nothing remained
3.
Too light is also a plight
Strive for the right with a degree of might
But rigid is frigid and cold is not best
Find the balance that's needed on the quest
4.
No advice need be heeded
But to Time all is ceded
Do what you can while you can
That's how not to be also-ran
5.
The years will be cheers
Don't overdo the beers
Yes, there are fears
But destiny is heres
6.
Happy Birthday to the Traveler
You'll succeed and not unraveler
<mrmeow> dream
<mrmeow> about domains
<mrmeow> falling from the sky
2.
<OldCoder> Lots of dots
<OldCoder> Lots of coms
<mrmeow> yes
3.
<OldCoder>
Puddles of dreams of riches
On the ground
Splash through the APIs
And the acronyms
Dreams of magic ponies
Pulling wheelbarrows of money
Down from the server clouds
4.
<mrmeow> dropping dns servers, web servers, mail servers, vps
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Server Clouds
Illustration by Jon Lock. Posted at a Deviant Art account that,
as of 2020, no
longer exists. License is believed to permit redistribution.
Attribution has been moved from the illustration itself to this
text box.
In 2015, I knew a data-entry person, Laurie, who spent hours at a time
typing “batches” of data. She was overworked, so this song was
written to cheer her up.
1.
Batches are the peak
Of their merits we speak
Batches are our friends
On Batches we depends
2.
Loads of fun
No need to point a gun
Cuddly and cute
Do not Batches shoot
3.
Batch all day
Batch all night
Nothing is astray
In the Lord's mighty sight
4.
Batch all day
For prices we pray
Batch all night
No need for fright
5.
Batches are swell
Profits ring the bell
Batches are our friends
On Batches we depends
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This is a song that I wrote to celebrate the creation of a new
language named Lever. Lever was created by an IRC friend,
Henri Tuhola aka Cheery in Finland. I think that
Cheery drew the illustration.
One reader told me that, after seeing the song, they wanted
to go and try the language. That was fun.
1.
Lever is a language clever,
Pour a bever-
age and review. Code shall ensue.
This I tell you true
2.
Lever Python is not
Lever is a language hot
Here is what with it you can do
You can a tasty beverage brew
Color the sky a new shade of blue
3.
Lever has Python-isms
Similar concepts through shiny new prisms
But there are no schisms
Like Ruby and Perl, boy and girl,
the languages are friends, though it depends
4.
Here is Lever's setup,
no need to get up,
relax and review. Details are here for you
Prepare for fun under the Finnish sun
because of documentation there is a ton
5.
Lever is a language clever,
Pour a bever-
age and review. Code shall ensue.
Mr. Tux was one of a group of about 5 hacker kids that I knew in
2012. He was 13 at the time and the pretend cousin of another
hacker kid named Pentium44 — who I actually lived with
a decade later.
Both boys grew up to be IT in their 20s though Pentium44 didn't
manage to make steady employment out of it.
The poem below is a gift I gave Mr. Tux in recognition of his
determination to take on every possible developer task in the
world at his age.
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Daeken, also known as
Cody
Brocious
and Serafina Brocious, is an interesting character.
He [now She]
had a couple of moments of fame from 2010 to 2012. He/She didn't
like me very much and, on November 06, 2012, he/she
challenged me to something similar to a rap battle.
I recited the following piece extemporaneously. I believe that
this is the exact wording except for one line that I
tweaked later.
The “abode API” part is a reference to Daeken's famous hotel
locks hack. I think that he made it onto “60 Minutes” for that
one but I'm not certain.
DAEKEN FORSAKEN
Daeken, since you ask
Take me to task
So bluntly and rudely
I hear a rhythm with appeal
When I write I feel
I'm singing out loud to you
The lines I write
In my sight
Are a song
If you can't accept that
Right off the bat
/IGNORE is where I belong
So chill. Whitebread Hacker
Not a Slacker
I'll admit
But a drag is sort of
What you are
Go decode an abode API sub-par
This one is a favorite. It's an extemporaneous song by Loome
aka Rubidiun aka Harold with minor edits by me.
COOKING FOOD
I did it!
I made food
I sat up
I went to the kitchen
near the stove
I grabbed a pan
to cook food on and
I cooked food on it
I now have food, hot and ready
to be eaten
sitting near me as
I write this
I will eat it soon
when it becomes suitably cold
because presently
it is too hot
I can't eat it now
I will spend the time waiting
for it to cool
by talking to you
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