BekahHW

Hey! I'm Bekah. I'm a career-changer. Bootcamp grad. Dev. Writer. Mom to four kids. Creator and Maintainer: VirtualCoffee.io | Podcast co-host: VirtualCoffee.io/podcast | Twitch Stream: BekahHW

Ohio Joined on Mar 4, 2020 https://bekahhw.github.io/

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Mar 31

How to Upgrade Your freeCodeCamp Project

#javascript #beginners #freecodecamp #codenewbie

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Jan 17

Job Announcement: A Dev's Journey into DevRel

#career #codenewbie #devrel

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Mar 23 '21

Lessons I've Learned from 100 Virtual Coffees

#codenewbie #community

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Dec 8 '20

I Came into Tech via Trauma

#codenewbie #community #growth

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Jul 20 '20

The Tech Industry is Failing Junior Devs

#codenewbie #career

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Jun 21

How to Add Speech Recognition to Your React and Node.js Project

#react #webdev #node

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Coding and ADHD - Where We Excel

Brainstorming with other ADHD ppl tips my list of favorite ex...

Jun 23

Needles, Haystacks and Early Career Job Resources

This is such a great list! Thanks for adding my post.

May 27

How do you get started in DevRel?

What a great story! Thanks for sharing.

May 25

How do you get started in DevRel?

Nice! How'd you land your DevRel job?

May 24

How do you overcome low motivation?

For coding, I try to find someone to collaborate with. Learni...

May 21

Navigating a new code base

I’m a huge fan of testing and debugging to learn the codebase...

May 21

Congrats to the Deepgram Hackathon Winners!

I'm happy to provide feedback. Let me know what you're lookin...

May 5

Turn Your Blog Post Into A Virtual Talk

This is awesome, Ayu!!! And you're always welcome <3

May 4

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May 31

What do you like most about your favorite communities?

#discuss #codenewbie #devrel

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May 24

How do you get started in DevRel?

#discuss #codenewbie #devrel

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May 13

Reading List: The Early Career Edition

#codenewbie #beginners #booklist

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May 11

A DEEPGRAM HACKATHON RECAP: WHAT MAKES A GOOD SUBMISSION?

#codenewbie #beginners #hackathon

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Apr 19

What is DevRel anyway: A Deepgram Approach to Developer Relations

#codenewbie #beginners #career

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Apr 5

Technical Writing: Optimize Your Content Creation

#beginners #codenewbie #career #writing

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Mar 28

Technical Writing: Accessible Writing for Developers

#career #beginners #a11y #codenewbie

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Mar 21

Technical Writing: Ethics and Honesty for Developers

#career #writing #codenewbie #beginners

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Mar 17

Let's get Hacking

#codenewbie #hackwithdg #beginners #webdev

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Mar 17

Virtual Coffee: An Update Going into Year 3

#codenewbie #beginners #community

4 min read

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Mar 14

Technical Writing: A Developer's Guide to Storytelling

#career #writing #codenewbie #beginners

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Mar 8

Nevertheless, Bekah Coded in 2022

#shecoded

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Mar 7

Technical Writing: A Beginner's Guide

#career #writing #codenewbie #beginners

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Jan 28

So You Want to Get Started in Community?

#community #devrel #beginners

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Jan 7

Gauging Community Health

#beginners #community #webdev

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Dec 23 '21

2021 Recap

#beginners #developer

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Dec 8 '21

TensorFlow.js 101: Working with Models and TFHub

#tfjs #machinelearning #beginners #frontend

5 min read

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Nov 30 '21

Moms, you're carrying a lot of plates

#career #moms

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Nov 29 '21

What the heck does it mean to make an image a tensor?

#machinelearning #tfjs #frontend

3 min read

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Nov 28 '21

Dear Senior Devs, Use your privilege

#career #devops #leadership

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Nov 22 '21

Hello, Tensor!

#tfjs #machinelearning #beginners

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Nov 20 '21

A Note to Devs Looking for Their First Job

#codenewbie #beginners #jobhunt

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Nov 12 '21

5 Questions to Ask When You're Interviewing for a Remote Job

#interview #remotework

3 min read

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Nov 8 '21

TensorFlow.js 101

#tfjs #machinelearning #codenewbie

4 min read

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Nov 1 '21

Hot Take: Saying 'In the Spirit of Hacktoberfest' is Gatekeepy

#hacktoberfest #opensource #community

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4 min read

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Sep 20 '21

Preptember: Projects and Discussions

#codenewbie #opensource #hacktoberfest #maintainer

3 min read

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Nov 15 '21

You're Toxic: Using the Toxicity Model with TensorFlow.js

#tfjs #machinelearning #tensorflow #beginners

4 min read

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Sep 13 '21

Preptember: Maintainer Powerups

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

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3 min read

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Sep 7 '21

Preptember: Getting ready for Hacktoberfest

#codenewbie #community #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Aug 2 '21

Interview Series: Birthdays, job responses, and feedback

#interview #devrel

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5 min read

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Jul 26 '21

Two Companies, Two DevRel Positions, Two Different Interview Processes

#interview #devrel

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6 min read

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Jul 20 '21

How I accidentally interviewed for two jobs, a series

#interviewing #devrel

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Jun 28 '21

Notes from Twitter Spaces on Community and Remote Work

#codenewie #remotework

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3 min read

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Jun 8 '21

Code + Community: the highlight reel

#codenewbie #community

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Apr 28 '21

I did something that scared me: I took a week off

#career #productivity #community

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Apr 20 '21

Coding is Pattern-Matching: a growth-mindset perspective

#codenewbie #beginners #webdev

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Apr 3 '21

One Year of Community: The Three Ls of an Accidental Community Creator

#codenewbie #community

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Mar 14 '21

Getting Out of My Comfort Zone

#codenewbie #webdev #beginners #career

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3 min read

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Mar 2 '21

Nevertheless, BekahHW Coded and had a lot of feelings

#shecoded

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Feb 13 '21

Complicated Anniversaries: It's Ok to Not Be Ok

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Jan 29 '21

Five Hot Takes for the New Year

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Jan 18 '21

Let Them Write Tests: Writing Your First Cypress Test

#beginners #testing #codenewbie #frontend

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Dec 28 '20

2020: A Year in Review

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Nov 30 '20

We need to talk: More on the problems juniors are facing

#codenewbie #beginners #career

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Nov 28 '20

I am a Woman in Tech

#womenintech #codenewbie #career

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Nov 23 '20

Let Them Write Tests: An Argument for Cypress

#codenewbie #testing #beginners

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Nov 12 '20

I'll say it again: Kindness Matters

#codenewbie #motivation #beginners #seniordev

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Nov 2 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: The Best One Yet

#hacktoberfest #opensource

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Oct 26 '20

New Devs: Make Pairing a Priority

#codenewbie

3 min read

BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Sep 23 '20

Building Community is just as Important as Building Products

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Aug 3 '20

ADHD, the Quarantine, and Me

#productivity #motivation #womenintech

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Jul 1 '20

Twelve Lessons for Twelve Months as a Dev

#codenewbie

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May 21 '20

A Job is just a Job, Except When It's Not

#codenewbie #beginners

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May 4 '20

Learning Paralysis: How to pick what to learn next

#beginners #codenewbie #learning

3 min read

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Apr 28 '20

What is Virtual Coffee?

#beginners #community

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Apr 27 '20

Leveling Up: how to tell if you're getting better when you're on the coding treadmill

#beginners #codenewbie #productivity

4 min read

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Apr 20 '20

Yo Parents, How you doing?

#community #beginners

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Apr 13 '20

Another One About Interviews: Breaking Bekah

#community #jobsearch

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Apr 6 '20

We Should Be Building Community Now More Than Ever

#discuss #community

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