Martin is a Nottingham Front-end Developer, enthusiastic about quality user experiences and building highly-visible services that matter. I'm passionate in engineering culture and being part of focused, self-organising teams who are enthusiastic about doing the right things.

Currently working at Vodafone UK.

Apps

Url:jam - URL Shortener #

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URL Shortener

Building a URl Shotener is a great learning exercise in how to architect such an app and saw me working with the nuances of validating and correcting URL inputs, the URL API, zod library and Next14's new Server Components.

It was a fun little project to do some high-contrast, bold styling in the UI too just using Tailwind, following a design I did in Figma.

Built with Next14 (TypeScript, Server Components), Prisma ORM, MongoDB, Zod validations, and Tailwind for styling.

iTunes Music Artwork searcher #

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Album posters

I was playing recently with the album and artist info available via the Apple iTunes database using their API, so thought it would be a fun idea to turn it into an app.

I started with some Figma wireframes and a spec I'd set for myself such as the entity type and sizes I wanted to make available.

Built with React and Vite with Chakra UI components.

Resource tracker #

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Album posters

This was a fun coding exercise to add hardware items to a list with some business rules I set myself, such as implementing unique IDs per asset, and an undo function.

The state of the list also persists between refresh using local storage.

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