when you have planted and nurtured young fruit trees and you spend a few years waiting for them to finally flower (and hopefully, maybe, produce fruit), the feeling when they finally do is not dissimilar from watching your child take his first few steps

haven't logged on here in a long time, apparently, so i figure i owe everyone a cat picture

mfw someone has read The Essence of the Iterator Pattern and also Applicative Programming with Effects but still wants ~me~ to prove it to them when i casually refer to applicatives being monoidal https://mastodon.social/media/BcDRhKMWuRO06ZhBnK4