David Singleton

19 years together you ⁦@fjsingleton⁩pic.twitter.com/9KNNG5vT2L

I hacked up @anvaka 's beautiful peak-map (h/t @jkottke ) 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 @glowforge , adding a base to thread dowel through to keep aligned.pic.twitter.com/ANwSgegLGD

Sneak preview of a @glowforge project I'm working on. These are topographically accurate models of Santa Catalina island. You might recognize from your Mac OS X wallpaper ;-) @avibryant I think you might like this!pic.twitter.com/Hcs1EoM8TX

OS/2 Warp's groundbreaking demo feature was a 3D chess game.pic.twitter.com/rZSfG3ALPT

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 BeOSpic.twitter.com/3AB9N6jveZ

Over the holidays I had fun learning SwiftUI while building a little Recipes app. Here's what I thought of the experience: https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2020-01-04-recipes-with-swiftui/ …pic.twitter.com/47GyWBmV9v

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Mostly French to keep up with the kids. Started Irish too but it’s hard.pic.twitter.com/g0UVVTvVcR

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!pic.twitter.com/gU5WXmHK3R

Here’s a remarkable bit of doublethinkpic.twitter.com/Tq7gWghneY

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.pic.twitter.com/ep0awDQ9nC

Several get it right and show an unobtrusive note that slides out of view as you scroll.pic.twitter.com/jbKU9lCJ9A

So many that conflict with other UI elements.pic.twitter.com/KSP4Aq1Juf

The menagerie of implementations out there is . So many full screen blocking UIs.pic.twitter.com/VCRBNyYGhw

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. pic.twitter.com/DkvdDiktY8

Pressing is how we get all the juice out of the must. This allows us to extract much more juice than would simply flow out by filtering the juice from the skins etc through a sieve.pic.twitter.com/vtPQBibmN7

The chemistry of fermentation is surprisingly complicated - enzymes first break down glucose into pyruvate through glycolysis (which is a sequence of ten reactions!) and then release CO₂, producing acetaldehyde which is further converted to ethanol by yet-another enzymepic.twitter.com/RyDnvBIEBY

The alcohol in red wine comes from the fermentation of sugars by yeast. Sugar content in must is measured using a nifty device called a hydrometer - a sealed and carefully weighted glass tube that floats at a particular height based on the sugar contentpic.twitter.com/jYZNweqoQZ

Traditionally wine has been made by crushing grapes by pigeage - treading on them with (clean!) feet and letting the natural yeasts and bacteria on the grapes do their job. We decided to make our wine this traditional way.pic.twitter.com/50A7gbfsIY

I’m making wine. It's delightful fusion of craft and science. I had no idea where this would take me - from harvesting grapes to exploring the micro-biology of fermentation. Way more complicated than I expected, but also way more fun. Read about it at http://blog.singleton.io/wine pic.twitter.com/rSmMWU15kp