Taking a break/escape from algebraic geometry & topology (mastermath) by attending zigtoberfest 2026. Facing an Either/or dilemma, I wished this conference would help me make up my mind, and it did, albeit in an unexpected way.

Agora is a personal static site generator engineered to sustain an ideal writing environment. This essay traces eleven months of architectural evolution, moving through genesis stoa markup and S-expression inspired markup iterations before settling on a final literate programming design.

It's pretty intriguing that the Effect type in this blog is exactly the traditional Kleisli type in haskell. We'll further show that Monad is the constraint we need to form the valid Effect category. If you are wondering about the meaning of effects in the haskell world, I believe this blog will help gain some understanding.