Jon Robson homepage - JavaScript and short stories

Jon Robson

This is Jon Robson (jdlrobson) personal website. I'm a British open source web developer and writer living in San Francisco. I like to make things. I work for the WMF and I built the mobile Wikipedia experience. You can feel free to email about any of those things. I contribute to the web in the hope I will leave it a better place for the children I'll never have.

Built

someday [2017] pan offline travel guide allowing you to edit open knowledge from the comfort of your offline phone.
weekipedia [2016] an offline ready React.js progressive web app clone of the Wikipedia mobile site.
Also allows you to subscribe to all sorts of push notifications driven by Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia mobile site [2012-present] You know Wikipedia, right? I made the mobile version.
Tunbridge Wells Winter Shelter [2011] Built for 2011-12 winter season.
International Gay Lesbian association [2010] (Has since been rebuilt).

Writing

Tinderella Mash stories competition 12, October 2016.
How Wikimedia helped mobile web readers save on data Wikimedia blog, Sept 2016
Why I Didn't Change my Relationship Status to Married. elephant JOURNAL, March 2016.
The Wikipedia editors behind the curtain Wikimedia blog, May 2014
The Temple Burning Man, September 2013.
The Man Burning Man, September 2013.
The Letter ‘E’ Burning Man, September 2013.
Go on a Wikipedia scavenger hunt with Wikipedia Nearby Wikimedia blog, May 2013
Wikipedia Mobile gets a face lift Wikimedia blog, March 2012

Hacks

divide and concur flashcard game
I've been teaching myself Chinese by focusing on characters and how certain Chinese words can be decomposed into other words. This has resulted in a flashcard game.
service workers
I got a bit obsessed with Service Workers and progressive web apps in 2016 (the best thing since the geolocation api/canvas boom) and besides the projects that came out of it I had fun exploring lazy loading images with a Service Worker (sept 2015).
HTML canvas
Back in 2010 Canvas was pretty cool and new and I had some fun hacking around with it.I had some fun with moving particles and I made a spinning globe using geodata.
riot map vs deprived areas [2011]
A simple mashup using government and crowdsourced data to link deprived areas to riots in London during August 2011. It took less than an hour to build and most of that was writing. tweet even got me a BBC Radio 4 interview.
TiddlyWiki hacks
Up till 2012 I was a core contributor to TiddlyWiki and tiddlyspace. I used it for many things for example mind mapping ideas, family trees and even calculating carbon footprints!

Misc

I draw occassionally:

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That's all from me.

me sniffing an inhaler after a stressful day