Where Curiosity Meets Code, Without the Intimidation

Hi, I’m Barbara Hernandez – the girl behind A Girl Among Geeks. I wasn’t born into tech. In fact, I stumbled into it late, learning to debug loops while juggling a day job and reheating coffee for the third time. But something about breaking problems into logic just clicked for me. Slowly, I built confidence line by line, bug by bug.

A Girl Among Geeks started out as a tiny notebook on my desk where I jotted down solutions to things I once googled a hundred different ways: “How do I clear the console in Java?” or “Why won’t my CSS grid align?” Over time, those scribbles became something bigger.

We built this site to be exactly what we wish existed when we were starting out a place that doesn’t assume you already know. A place that doesn’t talk over your head or make you feel silly for asking.

Behind this blog is a growing team of geeks who’ve all been there stuck between Stack Overflow threads, frustrated by vague error messages, or searching for straight answers on setting up containers or making WordPress behave.

We noticed something important: people hesitate to ask the “simple” questions. How do you add an app to the Mac dock? Start a function over again in Golang? Or unzip a driver file and make it work? These are the real everyday coding roadblocks. They’re not glamorous, but they matter.

That’s why A Girl Among Geeks exists. To offer answers without ego. Whether you’re setting up a local server, navigating JSON confusion, fixing hardware quirks, or wrestling with CSS quirks we’ve got your back.

We write what we learn, and we learn what we live. This isn’t a place of perfection it’s a place of progress.

So welcome. No question is too small here.

Meet Barbara Hernandez

Barbara Hernandez is a late blooming coder who built her tech confidence from the ground up not in a classroom, but at a cluttered kitchen table with an aging laptop and a stubborn CSS bug. With no formal background in computer science, Barbara learned to code the hard way: through hundreds of browser tabs, error logs, and trial by fire debugging sessions.

Before launching A Girl Among Geeks, Barbara worked in admin support roles and quietly nurtured her interest in technology during off hours. It was only when she began documenting her “aha!” moments fixing Docker issues, tweaking WordPress themes, untangling Linux commands that she realized how many people were afraid to ask the same questions.

Today, Barbara is the voice behind the site’s most popular posts, blending step by step logic with empathy for the overwhelmed. She believes tech doesn’t have to be intimidating it just needs to be explained like you’re talking to a friend.

Barbara Hernandez
Barbara Hernandez