yeah this is is me really telling on myself. I often tell people that this sentence in my bio is the truest thing I can possibly say about me and strikes as deeply as possible to the core of what moves and motivates me as a person.
There's lots of ways to interpret this phrase (and all of them are correct), but one interpretation is that I love taking things that people take for granted and showing them that they're actually more beautiful and elegant than they appreciated.
One particularly notable example of this is … Haskell! (or more generally, functional programming) Before I learned Haskell I had always thought of programming as a sort of a banal thing … purely a means to a more interesting end. And once I discovered Haskell I realized that programming could be delightful, and elegant, and beautiful and, and, and … I fell in love with programming. And I felt that the whole world needed to see in Haskell what I saw so that they could appreciate how wonderful and beautiful programming had the potential to be.
So I started blogging about and evangelizing Haskell (thus my blog name: Haskell for all) so that I could share that beauty with others. I fashioned myself a "midwife" to the Haskell language: I didn't create or give birth to it, but I wanted to help it along as much as I could because I felt that it was something precious that deserved to be nurtured and protected.

