@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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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

JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.comMay 19 · 4 min read

AI Won’t Take Your Job. But Someone Who Uses It Better Might

It’s a tough time to be a software developer. You have catastrophists wailing that AI will take your job. Deniers dismiss it as little more than autocomplete. Proponents hail it as the solution to all

JWJoanna Wilbournbitsbetween.comMay 5 · 6 min read

So You Want to Be a Senior Developer. Leave It Better Than You Found It

It’s not enough to just pay attention. Turning knowledge into action is where the journey to senior begins. Noticing the change in risk that biometric login posed didn’t have an impact until I flagged