@joannawilbourn

Joanna Wilbourn

@joannawilbournManchester, EnglandJoined March 2026

I care about the code because I care about the people working in it

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I'm a senior frontend and mobile developer with a decade of experience building things that work - and occasionally fixing things that don't.

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The Bits Between the Techbitsbetween.com10 posts

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JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.com5d ago · 5 min read

“Keep It Up” Isn’t a Direction

My first job title was Graduate Developer. I held onto it longer than I should have. It was useful to begin with. When I made mistakes, well - I was only a graduate. When I didn’t know something, that

JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.comJul 14 · 5 min read

What a Flutter Developer Learns When They Pick Up React

When I started learning React, I thought it would be easy. It was, mostly. I've worked across enough languages and frameworks over the years that I don't dread the switch. The engineering fundamentals

JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.comJun 30 · 5 min read

What Kind of Developer Are You?

My husband wanted to clone me. Not literally. He's a hobbyist coder with a talent for AI, and was curious whether he could distil my engineering knowledge into skills and agents to code like me. The w

JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.comJun 16 · 4 min read

You Don't Have to Be a Rockstar

Always On Call I could never fully relax when I took leave. Even after a thorough handover, there was always the chance that something might come up that only I could solve. I don’t mean that as a boa

JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.comJun 2 · 7 min read

I Didn’t Know Where to Start With AI Either

My feed was full of articles about the potential of generative AI. I felt a vague sense that I should be using it, but I had no idea where to start. I didn’t want to create code with it - I like writi