The Friendly Web Developer Movement with Julia Taylor of GeekPack.com

Ep. 249 - We’ve all been a part of a group, forum or membership with web developers where you know if you ask a question, no matter how simple or basic, that you’ll get a friendly, helpful and encouraging response, amiright?

Oh…is that not your experience? Ok, me neither.

In fact, some of the worst feelings of imposter syndrome for me in the early days stemmed from smarter developers who made me feel like I didn’t belong.

But that was back in 2009 and luckily, as a whole, things have changed.

In fact, there’s a growing movement of “friendly web developers” and I’m so excited to bring on someone who’s really spearheading this movement!

Julia Taylor is the founder and CEO of GeekPack.com, a community and training program for developers to build their business with confidence, is now on a mission to help 100K web developers around the world and break the typical mold of the grumpy developer.

In this chat we explore:

What the developer industry looked like for women a decade ago compared to now
Why developer groups are often agitated environments
The crazy opportunities for being a developer today
The confidence that comes with being a developer
The growing movement of “friendly web developers”

To be honest, Julia really made me rethink the typical view I’ve had of most developers based off of my experience and it not being the norm, thankfully, nowadays!

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
02:34 - Greeting to Julia
05:07 - Original struggles
08:00 - Reason for community
11:27 - WordPress and code
13:36 - Knowing other languages
16:42 - Open doors
19:27 - The most important
22:12 - “Geek” personalities
26:38 - Female avatar
31:13 - Perception is reality
33:35 - Be kind
37:10 - Thoughts on AI
41:53 - How to talk to clients
43:49 - What’s the why
53:38 - Geek pack opportunities
58:29 - Dream big

Connect with Julia and get all the links and resources mentioned in the episode at:

https://joshhall.co/249

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