David Singleton

@dps

Born in Belfast, former Londoner. Engineering & Design , married to . I like to make things.

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 May 2019

    Over the long weekend, I built a thing I have wished existed for years - this is *all* of Wikipedia, available offline on my tablet.

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  2. Jan 30

    19 years together ❤️ you ⁦

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    We all want to help address the climate crisis. But it’s such a complex issue that it can be hard to distinguish between data-backed improvements and feel-good distractions. So here's your data-backed guide:

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  4. Jan 20

    🦸‍♀️🍲 Superhero stew. I devised this for my kids. It contains many of their favorite ingredients. My daughter Emily named it and promises you that it is “scrumdiddlyumptuous”.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 13

    Hooray! 🎉 You can now subscribe to Increment, ’s quarterly magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale. (You can stock up on individual issues from our back catalog, too.)

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  6. Jan 12

    I hacked up 's beautiful peak-map (h/t ) to dump out the raw data. Then wrote a little python program to interpolate and draw the right number of slices in .svg format for , adding a base to thread dowel through to keep aligned.

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  7. Jan 12

    Sneak preview of a project I'm working on. These are topographically accurate models of Santa Catalina island. You might recognize from your Mac OS X wallpaper ;-) I think you might like this!

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  8. Jan 10

    Friday night fun playing with old* operating systems. So much faster and easier than when I installed each of these on my 486 PC the first time around. * slight cheat - it's haiku rather than BeOS

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  9. Jan 8

    the code I wrote is also on github, if you'd like to get a sense for how a (tiny) completed project in SwiftUI looks * plus, enjoy some yummy food

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  10. Jan 8

    Over the holidays I had fun learning SwiftUI while building a little Recipes app. Here's what I thought of the experience:

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  11. Jan 7

    I also resolved to do 3x bike rides each week and to attempt to achieve a 364*-day streak on . Delighted to realize I can fit in 2x duolingo lessons during the warm up for a Peloton session. [* decided on Jan 2]

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  12. Jan 7

    For 2020 I decided not to eat meat during the week. Feeling quite proud of myself for keeping it up on the first Taco Tuesday of the year. 🥗

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  13. 27 Dec 2019

    Everyone is conditioned to find the “Get out of my way” button as quickly as possible. Finally, the detailed disclosures of some media sites in particular are 🧐, and one can see what the legislators were _trying_ to do. But 🤬, what a mess!

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  14. 27 Dec 2019

    Here’s a remarkable bit of doublethink

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  15. 27 Dec 2019

    I think it’s fascinating that every team who built these presumably received approximately the same brief: “there’s this new GDPR cookie thing, make us compliant pls”, yet we end up with such variation.

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  16. 27 Dec 2019

    Several get it right and show an unobtrusive note that slides out of view as you scroll.

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  17. 27 Dec 2019

    So many that conflict with other UI elements.

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  18. 27 Dec 2019

    The menagerie of implementations out there is 🤯. So many full screen blocking UIs.

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  19. 27 Dec 2019

    Quite struck on this visit how ubiquitous and how pointless cookie warnings are on the web in Europe. It’s more surprising to click through and *not* see a warning than to see one. 🧵

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  20. 8 Dec 2019

    I like to write stuff down with pen and paper. I first made the journal in 2015 to turn the way I work into a structured scratchpad. I gave copies to friends and co-workers and they 🥰'd them. The latex is open source on github and PDF download is free (great on reMarkable).

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  21. 8 Dec 2019

    📖Founder's Journal fans: The 2020 journal is now available with a new quarterly subscription option (tons of notes pages and fresh cover images with each edition).

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