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Before you jump to monads, consider: would a monoidal means of constructing/reading this data work? If not, what about a Free Applicative? What about a limited recursive sum type, perhaps a GADT, that can express what I want to do? [parsonsmatt.org]

If the result of computation needs to perform an effect, encode that effect as a datatype. Free monads are a technique to encode computation as data, but they’re very complicated; usually a much simpler datatype can express the behavior you want. [parsonsmatt.org]

@prometheus @33MHz Ah. For a forum, phpBB still works, and now Discourse works even better.

@Skematica @phoneboy We’ve actually been dry enough to trip a couple fire hazard warnings from the NWS over the last week. Rapidly alternating warm and chilly weather, but dry either way.

@schmonz Mob programming always sounds most appealing when my team’s work style grows furthest from it. Seems hard to claim mobbing would be more productive than embarrassingly parallel solo epics with code review, but it definitely sounds less stressful.

Tonight’s #cocktailhour was my first Between the Sheets and a Brandied Port. Port has grown on me, and the dash of Luxardo really adds to its fruity overtones.

@33MHz I don't know about the opposite - it's still chronological rather than "curated". Maybe off at an angle, though.

@33MHz No, they're talking actual RSS as consumed by Feedly and NewsBlur and such. "I switched from finding and reading new content published by sources I track via Twitter to via RSS feed" would probably be the longhand.

@33MHz That verbiage is in a comment. Context is author discontinued using Twitter, but soon resumed posting "New post!" tweets, because so many people who use Twitter as a really crummy RSS feed reader to track new posts on a source cried out.

As long as we want clicks and likes and shares and RTs more than we want genuine understanding, we’ll use social media platforms rather than RSS. [text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com]

@prometheus @33MHz Huh. I can’t say I’ve encountered those problems. “Won’t use the group someone set up because Opinions” sure sounds line “Volunteered to set up and run a group consistent with Opinions” to me, though.

You can mitigate some negative experiences by learning as much as you can. Ask the teachers directly about how they support students who are struggling with either the content or their social experiences in a class. [medium.com]

Sometimes task interdependency can be a good thing as it can drive more communication [medium.com]

warning signs that a team may not have the right technology for the task: look out for people not being able to get started on tasks, expressing dissatisfaction with processes, and information not making it into shared team documentation [medium.com]

uncertainty about silence can make it difficult to know when a decision has been made in a geographically dispersed group [medium.com]

keeping communication positive and responding reliably helps teams develop trust in each other [medium.com]

When the work is rather well-understood & unambiguous then technical & structural coordination mechanisms (plans, standards) work best. But when dealing with uncertainty, best are people & social mechanisms (talking to each other, informal networks, etc). [medium.com]

Many of the differences between remote teams and face-to-face ones seem to get smaller over time, as employees adjust to technology and develop better ways of working remotely. [medium.com]

Cluster headaches snuck up on me again. Tonight’s is finally waning, just in time for me to go unconscious. Scuttled my hope to finish watching season 1 of The Expanse when kid went to bed early tonight.

@bayprogrammer You basically get syntax for fluent interfaces, rather than only getting them when the API author decided to play along by returning self.