I'm not a programmer. I'm a writer and a designer. Coding is what I do when I don't do either – less as a hobby and more a way to vent my creative frustration.

Aesthetics is important to me. Being in an ugly environment brings me down. Fira Code brings positive aesthetics with it. And ligatures are cool.

I'm the kind of a person that does things simply because they're cool.

Haskell without ligatures -> <- => <= looks every bit as amateurish as Lisp without lower case parentheses.