Dan Lien

@danclien
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Part of the reason is a role change from manager back to individual contributor.

I think I'm (subconsciously?) trying to make up for 3 years of technical experience while I was focused on managing.

After working at the same (and only) company for 10+ years, starting at a new place has been an adventure.

I can't shake the feeling I'm nowhere near as productive now as I was at my last company. It's probably a combination of multiple factors, but that's not entirely comforting.

Replacing all alcohol with Kosmic Kombucha's Texas Blues now.

hi guys i'm hoping to write another piece about mastodon, a sort of wrap-up for my experiment a few weeks ago where i tried to replace twitter with masto.

i'd love to to interview a bunch of you guys? looking for old users and new users alike

Here are the slides from my Philly ETE talk: "Functions and Determinism in Property-based Testing" http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/ete2017.pdf

how do you learn new skills once you're older than a teen?

*lies on couch playing hearthstone on phone for 3 hours*

i used to be smarter

*wastes half of the day hate-skimming facebook*

there's not enough time when you're an "adult"

Freer monads, finally tagless, recursion schemes. Anything else I should start looking into?
Trying to catch up on the Haskell/Scala ecosystem. :astonished:
So... deleting a toot may be as effective as recalling an email in Outlook?
It's been about 18 months since I've written Haskell. Time to ramp back up.