Personal website of

Jon Robson

(jdlrobson)

I'm a Welsh/English/European/adopted-Singaporean open source web developer and writer living in San Francisco.

I am married to Linz. Together we self-published the book A Little Daily Dose.

I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. There, I built the mobile Wikipedia experience and those little previews you see when you hover over links.

I like to build things that remove barriers for non-technical people to empower them to fulfil their dreams. I contribute to the web in the hope that I will leave it a better place for the children I'll never have.

I am curious about anything that helps us retain and celebrate the beauty of different cultures and I write to share my ideas.

Technical writing

fiction / non-fiction

projects

  • screenshot of https://en.wikipedia.org/ wikipedia (desktop) I was in the team that built the refreshed desktop site. [2020-present]
  • screenshot of https://inatdex.netlify.app iNatDex A pokemon-style pokedex for real life nature [2021]
  • screenshot of https://skins.wmcloud.org Skins lab A repository of MediaWiki skins [2021]
  • screenshot of http://littledailydose.com A little daily dose website A book and mobile app for learning Chinese [2019]
  • screenshot of http://openlibrary.org/ Open Library contributing to Open Library to make it mobile friendly [2018]
  • screenshot of https://en.m.wikipedia.org m.wikipedia You know Wikipedia, right? I made the mobile version of the site. [2012-present]

Other clients include ilga.org, tunbridge wells winter shelter, BT Group (internal), notesmusiccoffee.