Principal Product Engineer at @IntercomEng — Previously slinging code at @Deliveroo 🍔, @GDSteam 🇬🇧, and @lastfm 🎶
London, England
Joined April 2007
- Tweets1.1K
- Following125
- Followers998
- Likes2K
David Singleton retweeted
Very much this. At Deliveroo you MUST first build component in situ in an actual app, ship it, use it a second time for another use-case and then, and only then, does it get promoted to our design system.
I've noticed a lot of teams creating design systems struggle to make components that truly serve their products. "How do we know if these components work when we plug them in?"
I recently wrote a post about the connection between the system and products: bradfrost.com/blog/post/tool…
David Singleton retweeted
We're #hiring! I'm looking for a couple of great content designers to join our team @ParliDigital and help make UK Parliament's content work harder for our users 💪
Here's the ad: parliament.uk/about/working/…
And you can read about some of what's involved: pds.blog.parliament.uk/2018/…
David Singleton retweeted
Here's a post that summarizes all of the questions and answers from the GitHub/Microsoft AMA with @natfriedman reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8p… xitter.gq/sh4na/status/100479861…
I think we can all agree that this is the best and pretty much only acceptable response from now on to this question. reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8p… #MrClippit
David Singleton retweeted
Super interesting exhibit, cooking demos and tastings. The fermented rice pudding was 💪 and fizzy.
I like a museum where you’re encouraged to eat and drink. Always be eating.
ALT Museum of food and drink. Chow: making the Chinese American restaurant.
David Singleton retweeted
Hi! 👋
I'm David, a Frontend Engineer, and I'll be your #twitterroolette host for the next week.
I've been at @deliveroo for a year and work on the Consumer Web Platform team. Expect tweets about how we do frontend, lots of emoji, and food pictures.
- @dsingleton
David Singleton retweeted
A number of good Twitter infrastructure war stories in this thread. xitter.gq/garru/status/984238901…
David Singleton retweeted
Right! Exciting news! The current state of the development branch is (modulo feedback) more or less what I intend to release as the alpha version of Hypothesis for Ruby: github.com/HypothesisWorks/h…
David Singleton retweeted
How many different style guides are currently used across Parliament? 17! Here they all are*, waiting for us to compare, critique, and condense in a workshop later this week.
*20p for scale
David Singleton retweeted
Now in Chrome 64: Select an element in the DOM Tree, and the new #Accessibility pane shows you that element's position in the accessibility tree, as well as its ARIA attributes and computed properties.
David Singleton retweeted
This is huge! Brilliant work from the Safari team. xitter.gq/rmondello/status/95625…
David Singleton retweeted
I'm slowly coming around to the idea that my work in communications and content design for @gdsteam and now @UKParliament could be of interest to some weirdos. Does anyone want to put me on a panel or a stage?
David Singleton retweeted
This is such a good post, especially about asking “dumb” questions. I’ve often felt the same & guaranteed there is someone else in the room thinking the same thing - I know because sometimes they’ve come and told me afterwards! xitter.gq/philhawksworth/status/…
Full of pride to be a part of the same team as @lunaceee as she shares the experience of moving to SF, joining @netlify, and shipping a feature (one I use A LOT) within her first 24 hours.
medium.com/netlify/how-i-joi…
David Singleton retweeted
This is excellent, important work. "A team of thieves rappelled into a room filled with motion sensors to steal $2.5 million worth of rare books, possibly at the behest of a wealthy collector known as The Astronomer." xitter.gq/briancgrubb/status/939…
You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
David Singleton retweeted
"Passwords must be considered as confidential and must be used only by the originator" - Parliamentary IT security team (not that obliquely) responds to Nadine Dorries
David Singleton retweeted
Today I’m strapping a GoPro to my chest and climbing 30m of scaffold to help @ParliDigital’s filmmaker record the important restoration of the roof of Westminster Hall.
I’ll try and sneak some behind the scenes shots to share with you here.
David Singleton retweeted
While I'm really glad more people are holding tech companies accountable, it sucks that the current, often more diverse teams take the heat while early employees who shaped the culture and made millions off it fly under the radar of criticism. – at Brooklyn, NY
David Singleton retweeted
Guys, I have huge news about Constable Frozen, probably the weirdest and most mysterious Tumblr account of all time. Hold on to your butts.
David Singleton retweeted
This is big. We're finally building a design system for government! Help us make it even better gds.blog.gov.uk/2017/10/30/b… #govdesign
David Singleton retweeted
Work gripe. I find it so hard to work with senior bods who don't get that small kindnesses are valuable.
A good leader has good manners.
David Singleton retweeted
redefining your culture is something you should be doing all the time. It will happen when new people join anyway. #LondonDevOps