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Dark mode’s bright future: How we hope dark mode will transform Wikipedia accessibility

Dark mode is here for Wikipedia and as we speak is slowly rolling out to all our projects. While on the surface this may seem like a…

Jul 11

Dark mode’s bright future: How we hope dark mode will transform Wikipedia accessibility

Jul 11

The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village

All the other things we changed in addition to Wikipedia’s look

Jan 18, 2023

The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village

Jan 18, 2023

Diving into Wikipedia’s ocean of errors

How we went from an error counter to fixing our code

Sep 28, 2020

Diving into Wikipedia’s ocean of errors

Sep 28, 2020

Wikipedia: The strange case of the wandering semicolon

And how this change and other small changes helped increased moderation on mobile

Jan 15, 2020

Wikipedia: The strange case of the wandering semicolon

Jan 15, 2020

Why all software engineers should wear a ring on their little right finger

The night before my flight, I picked up an Accurist wrist watch that my Grandfather, a mechanical engineer, received on his 21st birthday…

Dec 10, 2019

Why all software engineers should wear a ring on their little right finger

Dec 10, 2019

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Down the Rabbit Hole

A hackathon story

On how connecting with the people your software serves is more important than anything else you could do

May 30, 2019

A hackathon story

May 30, 2019

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Down the Rabbit Hole

How we tackled technical debt at Wikipedia

Talking a bit helped us write off several years of technical debt

Mar 13, 2019

How we tackled technical debt at Wikipedia

Mar 13, 2019

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Down the Rabbit Hole

We’re going on a bug hunt (we’re not scared!)

Using statsv for client-side error reporting

Feb 11, 2019

We’re going on a bug hunt (we’re not scared!)

Feb 11, 2019

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Why all developers should do their chores

How technical debt can become a shared responsibility

Jan 14, 2019

Why all developers should do their chores

Jan 14, 2019

Twelve days of Brexmas

A Christmas song for all those who are bored of Brexit

Dec 12, 2018

Twelve days of Brexmas

Dec 12, 2018

Jon Robson (David Lyall)

Jon Robson (David Lyall)

Travel fanatic, writer, web dev british hippyster on a mission to make the web all happy with rainbows, unicorns etc

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