Originally, I intended to write one giant post about various algebraic patterns, mostly in python. This was mostly prompted by not-as-successfull presentation I did at my work, that was about applicative functors. I thought applicative functors are really cool. Most colleagues thought that my examples in haskell were not comprehensible.

"Maybe if I translate this to Python, more people would understand", I thought to myself. But as I wrote, the post grew in size and I had to split it into several posts. So far, I have:

• Algebraic patterns in Python
• Monoid pattern in Python
• Monoid for specifying configuration
• Functor pattern in Python
• Applicative pattern in Python
• Applicative pattern for reactive programming

Maybe it will include a proper monad tutorial once :-)