Martin Joiner's Blog

As all the engineers in my team gradually went offline for the last time in 2025, I found myself spending my final day helping the QA guy in our team with some end-of-year housekeeping.

Let us mark this momentus event: Today I finished stripping all uses of the jQuery library from my long-running side-project Open Mic Finder!

Screwfix's systems are undeniably slick, but if there was 1 small improvement I could make it would be a text formatting tweak in both their self check-in interface and the SMS message notification.

Sometimes I think we forget that the "I" in API stands for interface.

The month of November has never been particularly special for visitor numbers to openmicfinder.com.

I present to you, the most delicious problem my team solved this month!

The experience of travelling to the crag in Spain is much better than Kalymnos.

I only began my climbing journey in 2018 when I was already 35 years old.

It was a calm summers evening on a sleepy weekday in Bristol.

My girlfriend has taken the brave choice to career switch, now retraining as a software developer.