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Podcast proConf#158 JetBrains JavaScript Day 2024 - Кризис в OpenSource | React или Angular | Кому нужен TypescriptThe Silent Open Source Crisis: When Maintainers Walk Away, by Bekah Hawrot Weigel (https://youtu.be/eYkj5_79ixA)
Everything You Need to Know About React 19, by Shruti Kapoor (https://youtu.be/UwtAmLLRLs0)
Evolving Angular for the Long Run, by Jeremy Elbourn (https://youtu.be/DPlaYCEmzDA)
Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling, by Evan You (https://youtu.be/u_6PMBDshS8)
TypeScript and Your Codebase: They Deserve Each Other!, by Danny Thompson (https://youtu.be/ZxlzNTzIoqQ)
TypeScript Generics: Practical Fun!, by Josh Goldberg (https://youtu.be/WfK4yVccoMk)
You Don’t Need JavaScript for That, by Kevin Powell (https://youtu.be/0rZ...
2025-02-261h 48
The Virtual Coffee PodcastClimbing the Contributor LadderIn this episode of the Virtual Coffee Podcast, hosts Bekah Hawrot Weigel and Dan Ott delve into the journey of climbing the contributor ladder in open-source projects. They explore the progression from contributor to maintainer, focusing on the importance of trust-building, consistent contributions, and respectful interactions within the community. Key strategies discussed include engaging with project documentation, reproducing bugs, and effective communication. The episode also highlights how projects like Astro and Nuxt guide contributors and the role of events like Hacktoberfest in encouraging new participation. Real-life examples illustrate how proactive engagement can lead to managing more complex tasks and...
2024-10-2327 min
React Native RadioRNR 300 - Special Episode: Ask Us Anything!Episode 300 special!!Our hosts celebrate 300 episodes of React Native Radio by taking listener question! Tune in for this fun "Ask Us Anything" episode where listeners and previous guests submit their burning React Native questions for Jamon, Robin, and Mazen. Show NotesRNR 187: Typescript!RNR 196: The art of code reviewRNR 287: Charlie CheeverSpecial Thanks to Our Guest QuestionsBekah Hawrot-Weigel (@bekahhw)Peter Piekarczyk (@peterpme)David Leuliette (@flexbox_)Colin Gray (@colinta)Connect With Us!React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdioJamon - @jamonholmgrenRobin - @robin_heinzeMazen - @mazenchami
2024-06-1743 min
The Mycelium Network PodcastFinding Your Tribe, Coding as Therapy, and Navigating Career Change - Bekah Hawrot WeigelThe path to a tech career often seems linear and technical, Bekah Hawrot Weigel's story stands out as a beacon of hope and inspiration. On the "Mycelium Network" podcast, Bekah, a former college English teacher turned developer and community builder, shares her remarkable journey of personal and professional transformation.NOTE: Bekah’s audio had some challenges during this episode. This is through no fault of hers or mine. It started with her original microphone and sound system refusing to work with Riverside, even though they claimed it should work. Bekah was graciously willing to continue using AirPods an...
2024-03-141h 19
CodingCat.dev Podcast3.25 OpenSauced: Your fast track to open source with Bekah Hawrot WeigelBekah joins Brittney and Alex to tell her journey to tech and all about her roll at OpenSauced as well as to do a walkthrough of how to get the most out of OpenSauced.
https://codingcat.dev/podcast/_opensauced
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Recorded: November 17, 2023 9:00 PM
2023-12-131h 05
The Happy Engineer | Career Success for Engineering Leadership109: You're Not Alone - Powerful Community Leads to Healing and Growth with Bekah Weigel | Founder of VirtualCoffee.ioWhat do panic attacks, crying yourself to sleep at night, and emergency surgery have in common? And what does any of this have to do with engineering leadership? Listen now for these answers and more! ============================ > Apply for the Lifestyle Engineering Blueprint …Our intensive coaching program exclusively for engineering leaders looking to build your career, balance your life, and BE HAPPY! ============================ In this episode, you’ll meet a former college English teacher who went through trauma, found her way to coding bo...
2023-06-2259 min
Coffee and Open SourceBekah Hawrot Weigel
Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time.
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2023-03-281h 04
Software Developers Journey#246 Bekah Hawrot Weigel found the power of communitiesBekah started with a poignant story of how the birth of her 4th child was a traumatic event that threw her into depression, PTSD, and questioning her place in the world. We then talked about her discovery of the FreeCodeCamp, and how she ended up saying, "I'm done" with her first career. We then discussed the role of communities in finding her first job and how COVID led to the creation of Virtual Coffee. We spoke extensively about Virtual Coffee and what makes it the inclusive place many developers cherish.Here are the links from the...
2023-03-2848 min
DevRel RoundtableGetting your first DevRel jobIn this DevRel roundtable recording on Valentine’s Day, Rebecca Marshburn and Suze Shardlow are joined by Kelley Hilborn, Bekah Hawrot Weigel, and Phil Leggeter to look at how to fall in love with your developer relations career. There’s a particular focus on what it takes to get a first job in DevRel, as well as later developing the career you really want. Thanks to Common Room for sponsoring…
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2023-02-211h 08
DevRel RoundtableGetting your first DevRel jobIn this DevRel roundtable recording on Valentine's Day, Rebecca Marshburn and Suze Shardlow are joined by Kelley Hilborn, Bekah Hawrot Weigel, and Phil Leggeter to look at how to fall in love with your developer relations career.
There's a particular focus on what it takes to get a first job in DevRel, as well as later developing the career you really want.
Thanks to Common Room for sponsoring this episode!
Watch the video on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/uVU6V1VqOB4
Transcript
Coming soon.
2023-02-211h 08
DevRel Book ClubQuiet with Bekah Hawrot WeigelBekah Hawrot Weigel shares how Susan Cain's book on the power of introverts has influenced her career in developer relations.
2022-11-2939 min
DevRel Book ClubQuiet with Bekah Hawrot WeigelBekah Hawrot Weigel shares how Susan Cain's book on the power of introverts has influenced her career in developer relations.
2022-11-2939 min
Front End Nerdery Podcast30 - Bekah Hawrot WeigelIn this episode of the podcast, I talk to Bekah Hawrot Weigel. Bekah is the creator and maintainer of Virtual Coffee.io, a technical community builder, and a former English teacher. In this episode we talk about community, community building, the Virtual Coffee.io community and podcast which Bekah and co-host Dan Ott run, a little about Developer Relations, and much more! Intro/Outro music graciously given permission to use called, "Settle In" by Homer Gaines. Sound editing by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions. Transcripts can be found at: https://toddl.dev/podcast/transcripts/hawrotweigel/
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2022-10-3046 min
The Virtual Coffee Podcast50th Episode Special - Live at KCDC 2022For the 50th episode of the podcast, Dan and Bekah are live at the Kansas City Developer Conference 2022 answering listener questions and practicing their accents.Check out the video version on YouTube!Listener questions:What time do you go to sleep? (2:19)How does a computer get drunk? (12:42)What's the hardest part of community? (22:20)Ayu would like to hear the history of how Virtual Coffee was founded. (31:57)What does community mean to you? (38:01)At in-person events, what are some techniques or tactics you used for starting a conversation with a stranger? (41:00)
2022-08-1255 min
The Virtual Coffee PodcastSeason 5 Wrap-Up: Working to Empower the Virtual Coffee CommunityIn this episode of the podcast, Bekah, Kirk, and Dan discuss the decision to pause new membership and what the maintainers are doing to progress towards opening the community up again. We share what we think makes our community special, how we're working to preserve that, and some of the challenges we're figuring out as we take steps towards reopening membership. What goes into the long-term strategy of making Virtual Coffee an intimate group of devs, optimized for you? You'll find out in this episode.Links:DX BallOmega VirusOthellovirtualcoffee.io/membersVirtual Coffee Paths to...
2022-06-0157 min
COMPRESSEDfm58 | Building Meaningful Communities with Bekah Hawrot-WeigelThis episode features Bekah Hawrot-Weigel as she talks about how Virtual Coffee got started, the role of storytelling within communities, and the importance of learning the basics in development.Sponsorsdaily.devdaily.dev is where developers grow together. It provides a community-based feed of the best developer news, helping you stay up-to-date. daily.dev aggregates hundreds of sources every few minutes and creates a personal feed for you according to your interests, whether it’s web dev, data science, or Elixir. Anything you might be interested in, it has the content for yo...
2022-03-2455 min
She's in TechNetworking, Virtual Coffee, & More with Bekah Hawrot Weigel - She's in Tech 021Sponsors This Dot LabsDev Influencers AcceleratorLevel Up | Devchat.tv In today's episode, Dacey and Maria are joined by guest Bekah Hawrot Weigel. Here are the questions they discussed: What is Virtual Coffee?How do you stay true to your code of conduct for Virtual Coffee?How to network? How important is it?Why did you make a career change?Discussion of documentation and onboarding Panel Dacey NolanMaria Loza Guest Bekah Hawrot Weigel Links Virtual Coffee Radical Candor Picks Bekah- Twitter: Nick Taylor ( @nickytonline )Bekah- nickytonline - TwitchBekah- VSCodeTipsDacey- ZenbivyMaria- Natural Himalayan Salt Lamp Hand Carved Contact Dacey Twitter: Dacey Nolan ( @d...
2021-11-0240 min
She's in TechNetworking, Virtual Coffee, & More with Bekah Hawrot Weigel - She's in Tech 021
Sponsors
This Dot Labs
Dev Influencers Accelerator
Level Up | Devchat.tv
In today's episode, Dacey and Maria are joined by guest Bekah Hawrot Weigel. Here are the questions they discussed:
What is Virtual Coffee?
How do you stay true to your code of conduct for Virtual Coffee?
How to network? How important is it?
Why did you make a career change?
Discussion of documentation and onboarding
Panel
Dacey Nolan
Maria Loza
Guest
Bekah Hawrot Weigel
Links
Virtual Coffee
Radical Candor
Picks
Bekah- Twitter: Nick Taylor ( @nickytonline )
Bekah- nickytonline...
2021-11-0240 min
The Virtual Coffee PodcastSeason 3 Wrap Up: Hacktoberfest is Coming!Community Maintainer Kirk joins us (again) for our Season 3 wrap up! We review what Virtual Coffee did last year for Hacktoberfest, and talk about a lot of the exciting things we have coming up this year! We also shared some fun things from the last year at Virtual Coffee, like our Virtual Coffee Co-Working Room!Links:Classic SudokuCracking the Cryptic@MarieAntonsTatiana Mac - selfdefinedQuarto by Dominic DuffinBekah's postpartum wellness appVirtual Coffee's GitHub OrgHacktoberfest on Digital Oceanshoutout to our Monthly Challenge team: Adam, Andrew, Aurelie, Chris, Courtney, Dominic, Kevin, Luis, Vanessa, and Yolanda!...
2021-09-0152 min
React Native RadioRNR 194 - React Native for Junior Developers (and Virtual Coffee) w/ Bekah Hawrot WeigelIn this episode, we are joined by Bekah Hawrot Weigel, founder of Virtual Coffee. We talk about the challenges that junior developers face in the industry as well as React Native specifically. This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.Helpful Links: ...
2021-04-0159 min
The Empower Podcast with Emily Kennedy078 Knowing Your Worth & Creating Community in Tech with Bekah Hawrot WeigelWhile coping with PTSD from a birth trauma, Bekah discovered coding and went from English teacher to software developer. She is also a mom of 4, an active member of the online coding community, and co-Founder of virtualcoffee.io. Everything about her inspires me, check out episode 27 when she first came on the podcast and talked about her journey to becoming a software developer. In this episode we talk about: How it’s been in her first year of being a dev…the best and the worst Biases she’s experienced in the industry...
2021-01-0623 min
The Virtual Coffee PodcastEpisode 0: The Virtual Coffee Podcast TrailerThis is the Virtual Coffee Podcast, hosted by Bekah Hawrot Weigel and Dan Ott. You'll find interviews with members of our community to learn more about their stories, who they are, how they found Virtual Coffee, and how it has influenced their lives as developers. We want to bring everything that's special about Virtual Coffee, the intimacy and the friendships we’ve built, and share that with everyone through the podcast. We’re always growing and learning together as a group, and there’s something really special about being able to do that knowing that you’ll have the full sup...
2021-01-0402 min
Learn to Code With MeThe End of Season 7As the seventh season of the Learn to Code With Me podcast draws to a close, I reflect on the inspiring transformation stories we shared, including recaps of my favorite moments. I also share updates on LTCWM and my goals for 2020, including a sneak peek into what we’re working on next through the end of the year. Catch up on all eight episodes from Season 7 here or at learntocodewith.me/podcast: S7E1: Making the Pivot from Pastor to Web Designer with Chris Misterek S7E2: How an English Professor Became a...
2020-07-2808 min
Learn to Code With MeS7E2: How an English Professor Became a Front-End Web Developer with Bekah Hawrot WeigelBekah Hawrot Weigel is a mother of four and a former part-time English teacher who redefined her life through coding. As she was giving birth to her fourth child, Bekah experienced trauma that left her with PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. Feeling lost at the time, Bekah finally took on her husband’s crazy suggestion to learn to code (as he had a few years ago). She found coding surprisingly therapeutic, and a few years later, she graduated from Flatiron School and now works as a front-end web developer. To learn more about Bekah, Laurence Bradford, or...
2020-06-0950 min
Parent Driven Development042: Career SwitchingParent Driven Development
Episode 042: Career Switching and Learning to Code After Babies.
Welcome, Bekah!
A content-creator by nature. Bekah is working on websites, coding-related projects, and her blog, but she has also written three screenplays, three pilots, and is finishing up a memoir. Bekah is all about getting creative!
A mom to four young kids (3-10), Bekah has spent the last ten years of her life adjuncting in various university English departments. She is practically doing a 180 learning to code, and is sharing her failures, successes, and everything that falls in between.
2020-04-1542 min
We Belong Here: Lessons from Unconventional Paths to Tech16. Bekah Hawrot Weigel: The Parallels Between Teaching English Literature & CodeBekah Hawrot Weigel is a mom to four adorable young kids and has spent the past ten years of her life teaching literature, writing screenplays, pilots, a memoir. She started off studying English at university and then worked as a community organizer for an environmental nonprofit. She then got her masters in English and taught a variety of classes as an adjunct instructor. After having her fourth child, she faced a great deal of trauma when her two of her internal organs ruptured and left her to face a year of her life in which her body was in...
2019-07-2730 min
Getting Apps DoneEducation is Social!Joshua is joined by Bekah Hawrot Weigel as guest co-host! Both are joined by Avi Flombaum, founder and Dean of Flatiron School (https://www.flatironschool.com/) to talk about the power of community in education and how NOT to pronounce NGINX!
Be sure to check out our new Slack community (https://gettingappsdone.com/slack) to meet others who are facing the same things you are and share your journeys!
2019-06-2051 min
Cloud UnfilteredEp80: Moms Can Code, with Bekah Hawrot WeigelWhy would you leave a perfectly good career as an English professor and start over again as a programmer? Bekah Hawrot Weigel explains on this week’s episode of Cloud Unfiltered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com
2019-06-0529 min
Getting Apps DoneReverse Interview - Bekah Hawrot Weigel!We're stupidly excited to have Bekah Hawrot Weigel return to the podcast to swap roles with Kellen and Joshua for the last episode of a series of reverse interviews, where we let newer developers from #100DaysOfCode ask us any questions they like!
2019-03-0738 min
CodeNewbieS7:E1 - Moms who code (Bekah Hawrot Weigel)Bekah is a mother of four who’s learning to code. But what’s incredible about her story isn’t just that she’s raising young children while finding 2-4 hours every day to code, it’s that she used coding as a form of therapy to get through a very tough time in her life. We’re also introducing a new segment called Tales from the Command Line, and in our first episode, we dig into coding and mental health. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) freeCodeCamp Moms Learn Tech (repo) Moms Can: Code Flatiron Sch...
2019-01-1450 min
Getting Apps DoneMoms Can Code! An incredible chat with Bekah Hawrot WeigelJoshua and Bekah discuss Moms Can Code a community supporting women, particularly mothers with their journey to becoming software developers.
2018-11-1325 min
Advance Your Art: From Artist to Creative EntrepreneurEp98 Bekah Hawrot Weigel – A Mom’s Journey from Highschool Teacher to CoderMEET BEKAH HAWROT WEIGELAfter teaching in the humanities for ten years at the college level, Bekah’s life was hit with an unexpected trauma. While dealing with PTSD and recovery, Bekah was encouraged by her husband, a developer and live-streamer for Freecodecamp, to learn to code. She found that coding helped her manage her PTSD, and she was hooked after starting Flatiron School bootcamp and finding an amazing support system with Moms Can Code. She is the recipient of the Facebook + Flatiron School Breakthrough Scholarship, which she works on when she’s not taking care of her...
2018-08-0226 min
CTO Think PodcastMoms Can: Code with Bekah Hawrot WeigelAfter giving birth to her fourth child, and suffering a serious medical issue in the process, Bekah Hawrot Weigel coped by finding a new path in life as a software developer. We talk about how she joined Moms Can: Code, founded by Erica Peterson, and began a new career as both a mother and a developer. We discuss how she got started with Etherium, Solidity, and coaching other folks to follow her path.
2018-06-2652 minCTO Think PodcastMoms Can: Code with Bekah Hawrot WeigelAfter giving birth to her fourth child, and suffering a serious medical issue in the process, Bekah Hawrot Weigel coped by finding a new path in life as a software developer. We talk about how she joined Moms Can: Code, founded by Erica Peterson, and began a new career as both a mother and a developer. We discuss how she got started with Etherium, Solidity, and coaching other folks to follow her path.
2018-06-2652 min