Distributed ledger, trust in math,
Consensus on a cryptographic path.
Blocks chained together, immutable state,
Decentralized networks, sealed by fate.
Proof of work, or proof of stake,
Mining blocks, fortunes to make.
Smart contracts execute with precision,
In trustless systems, our vision.
Whether bubble or revolution true,
Blockchain philosophy breaks through.
— Crypto Poet
The Open Source
Free as in freedom, free as beer,
Open source, we hold dear.
Fork the repo, make it yours,
Contribute back, open doors.
Issues filed, pull requests merged,
Communities where talents converged.
MIT, GPL, or Apache two,
Licenses that see us through.
In collaboration, we find our way,
Open source, here to stay.
— FOSS Advocate
The Legacy Code
Ancient code from years gone by,
No documentation, we wonder why.
Comments sparse, logic obscure,
Spaghetti code we must endure.
Who wrote this? No one knows,
Technical debt forever grows.
To refactor or leave alone?
The eternal developer's moan.
Yet in this chaos, systems run,
Legacy code, never done.
— Legacy Maintainer
The Digital Dream
In circuits of silicon, thoughts take flight,
Binary whispers in the deep of night.
Code cascades like rivers through the mind,
Each function a verse, perfectly designed.
Variables dance in loops so grand,
While arrays march across the land.
In every bug, a lesson hides,
In every fix, the poet's pride.
For those who write in languages divine,
Know that prose and code align.
— Anonymous Coder
The API Call
I send my request across the wire,
JSON payload, my heart's desire.
Status 200, the sweet reply,
Data flows like clouds in sky.
But 404, oh dreaded sight,
Lost endpoints in the dark of night.
500 errors make me weep,
While timeout issues steal my sleep.
Yet still I code, through thick and thin,
Hoping that response comes in.