A Monad is Just a Monoid in the Category of Burritos

TechBrunch returns with a Functional Programming edition: a small, relaxed brunch gathering for people drawn to the mathematical foundations of software. Conversation centers on category theory and functional paradigms — monoids, functors, applicatives, and monads — and how those abstractions actually show up in real codebases. The attendee mix is intentionally cross-disciplinary: developers working in Clojure, Haskell, OCaml, or Scala alongside mathematicians and CS folk who use category theory in research or production. Expect tangents into algebra, graph theory, set theory, and topology rather than a structured talk. Meeting point is the hotel restaurant Beltempo at the Hotel Metropolitan Edmont Tokyo near Iidabashi. RSVP is important — the group may relocate, and confirmed first-timers get their meal on the house.