Jon Robson

@jdlrobson

Web dev/writer/traveler british hippyster living in San Francisco on mission to make the web better (rainbows, unicorns etc.) Reinventing Wikipedia via mobile.

Essex,Singapore,San Francisco
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    7 Nov 2018

    On the Wikimedia blog: If you've ever wondered why has a separate mobile site that looks quite nice on desktop, hopefully this will give you food for thought!

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    Jul 6

    "Javascript developers trying to keep dependencies up to date"

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  3. Jul 1

    In my quest to cut down my mobile phone usage i have found the most effective to be a badly designed tempered glass screen. It makes even typing tweets like this a chore and has shaved 2-3 hours off my daily phone time.

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    Jun 3

    Did you see the latest awesome feature 🔥? It's helping you see why a CSS property has no effect. We're adding more of those in , if you want to help, it's quite simple to work on, and you might learn some CSS along the way 🙂

    Screenshot of Firefox DevTools inspector. A span element is selected, with a CSS rule applying a width to it. A tooltip is displayed stating that the width is inactive because the element has a display of inline
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  5. Jun 21

    I never really appreciated how bad the cookie warning situation got in Europe. I seem to be constantly accepting them. How does anybody get anything done on the web?! Surely this just pushes people to apps.

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    Jun 2
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    My real position is that there are some stable features within React and common to the other frameworks and we should be looking at promoting them to web APIs. This would allow all the frameworks to get smaller and the web to get faster.

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  7. Jun 2

    Hey - I spotted this suspected sea hare on the beach on Saturday and not knowing what it is is weighing on mind. Any ideas?

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    May 31

    Just listen to what this guy has to say and think about it. If you want to start banging on about Iraq afterwards, fine. The points he is making and their relevance will still be there.

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    Tony Blair delivers furious tirade against Brexit
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    May 31

    Resolving never to buy gear again, and to take the opportunity to remind others I see sporting their logo of this attack on the commons.

    In a video about the campaign, Leo Burnett and The North Face boasted that they “did what no one has done before … we switched the Wikipedia photos for ours” and “[paid] absolutely nothing just by collaborating with Wikipedia.” 2/
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    May 30

    The first joint and hackathon session (and photo walk) took place in Prague, with people interested in exploring ways to share freely-licensed observations on biodiversity across the two projects. Read more from Jon:

    If you've ever wondered what happens at a Wikimedia hackathon, I've tried my best to paint you a picture. Look forward to seeing you next year. As for me, "there’s nothing more valuable than getting face time with the people your software serves".
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    May 30

    oh look who's on the latest MDN Developer Newsletter ❤️ 🇸🇬 represent 💃

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  12. May 30

    <3

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  13. May 30

    If you've ever wondered what happens at a Wikimedia hackathon, I've tried my best to paint you a picture. Look forward to seeing you next year. As for me, "there’s nothing more valuable than getting face time with the people your software serves".

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    May 25

    Four bird species endemic to Micronesia have for the very first time an image on Wikipedia, thanks to iNat user thibaudaronson: • the Long-billed white-eye • the Pohnpei fantail • the Pohnpei flycatcher • the Pohnpei kingfisher CC BY SA media FTW!

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    May 20

    As a reminder: fucking vote. ()

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    May 20

    was awesome! Not only do I leave Prague with the perspective of a MediaWiki extension (), but also the awesome wikilovesinat app by which allows finding Wikimedia compatible observations in

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  17. Apr 17

    Linzy and I have been working hard on a book of short stories and website for learning Chinese and today we learnt that we've won a platinum in the design awards from 💪 it's been a long journey but totally worth it!

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  18. Apr 16

    I think a lot of people don't realise how this process works and importantly how they can be part of it! I too find it fascinating watching new stories unfold and reading through the talk pages as they do. please consider writing a longer blog post!

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    While news reports updated and tweets flooded in about the horrible Notre-Dame fire yesterday, volunteer editors worked to research and document the events as they unfolded. I always find this reactive process fascinating, here's a thread on how it happened:
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    Apr 16

    Initial results of our Priority Hints Chrome origin trial show a 1-2% improvement of First Paint by giving a high priority to the top Wikipedia article thumbnail on desktop: Full results including mobile in a few weeks.

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    Apr 12

    There are no words. 🤬🤬 x

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    Apr 10

    Read about how I tried to evaluate Element Timing for images at Wikipedia (origin trials in Chrome):

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