Coders Dream in Dataflow Too

It happened in the shower, or on a walk, or staring at a whiteboard with a dried-out marker in your hand. The solution arrived not as words, not as syntax, but as a shape — data flowing from here to there, branches splitting, paths converging, the whole thing hanging in your mind like a mobile. You can see it. You can trace any path through it. Then you open your editor and start dismantling it.