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Hey! I'm Bekah. I'm a career-changer. Bootcamp grad. Dev. Writer. Keynote Speaker. Mom to 4 kids. Creator, Maintainer, Podcast co-host: VirtualCoffee.io | Sr. Developer Advocate.

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5 Security Chores You Should Offload to Cloud Agents (Before They Burn You Out)

5 Security Chores You Should Offload to Cloud Agents (Before They Burn You Out)

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The Platform Gap: How to Scale Your Engineering Without Scaling Headcount (Yet)

The Platform Gap: How to Scale Your Engineering Without Scaling Headcount (Yet)

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Bug Reports Should Fix Themselves: Dogfooding Our Slack Cloud Agent with GitHub and Linear

Bug Reports Should Fix Themselves: Dogfooding Our Slack Cloud Agent with GitHub and Linear

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The Invisible Load: How AI Workflows Can Replace Your Team's 'Glue Person'

The Invisible Load: How AI Workflows Can Replace Your Team's 'Glue Person'

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When We Became What We Do: The Identity Crisis That Companies Mistook for Opportunity

When We Became What We Do: The Identity Crisis That Companies Mistook for Opportunity

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When 'Local' Went Global: The Pandemic Era of International Communities

When 'Local' Went Global: The Pandemic Era of International Communities

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The Hidden Cost of Tool Switching

The Hidden Cost of Tool Switching

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How I Get the Most Out of My AI Agent

How I Get the Most Out of My AI Agent

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How I Simplified Contributor Workflows with Rules, Prompts, and AI Agents

How I Simplified Contributor Workflows with Rules, Prompts, and AI Agents

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Stop Copy-Pasting Code Into ChatGPT: Build Your Own AI Assistant Instead

Stop Copy-Pasting Code Into ChatGPT: Build Your Own AI Assistant Instead

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The Psychology of Coding: Why Developers Avoid Planning (and How AI Planning Tools Like Continue Fix It)

The Psychology of Coding: Why Developers Avoid Planning (and How AI Planning Tools Like Continue Fix It)

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From Breathing Space to Building: Why I'm Joining Continue as Senior Developer Advocate

From Breathing Space to Building: Why I'm Joining Continue as Senior Developer Advocate

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Why New AI Models Change Everything for Developers

Why New AI Models Change Everything for Developers

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A Developer’s Guide to Choosing an AI Coding Assistant That Boosts Productivity Without Overwhelming Your Workflow

A Developer’s Guide to Choosing an AI Coding Assistant That Boosts Productivity Without Overwhelming Your Workflow

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Pros and Cons of the Top AI Code Assistants: Continue.dev, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor (With a Hero’s Twist)

Pros and Cons of the Top AI Code Assistants: Continue.dev, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor (With a Hero’s Twist)

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When AI Assistants Meet Your VS Code Setup

When AI Assistants Meet Your VS Code Setup

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AI Code Assistants Fix Real Codebase Problems: Mobile Nav Edition

AI Code Assistants Fix Real Codebase Problems: Mobile Nav Edition

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Which Code Assistant Actually Helps Developers Grow?

Which Code Assistant Actually Helps Developers Grow?

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Comparing 5 AI Coding Assistants

Comparing 5 AI Coding Assistants

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Test Drive Before You Buy: Your Guide to AI Code Assistant Trials in 2025

Test Drive Before You Buy: Your Guide to AI Code Assistant Trials in 2025

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Taking Time to Breathe: A New Chapter Begins

Taking Time to Breathe: A New Chapter Begins

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Beyond Stars and Forks: Why Open Source Needs Better Collaboration Metrics

Beyond Stars and Forks: Why Open Source Needs Better Collaboration Metrics

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Breaking Bottlenecks: How Organizations Build Systems of Balanced Reciprocity

Breaking Bottlenecks: How Organizations Build Systems of Balanced Reciprocity

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Reciprocity Intelligence: The Essential Core Skill for Modern Work

Reciprocity Intelligence: The Essential Core Skill for Modern Work

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The Giving-Resilience Balance: Beyond Givers and Takers

The Giving-Resilience Balance: Beyond Givers and Takers

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Agents vs MCPs: Is the AI Hype Shifting?

Agents vs MCPs: Is the AI Hype Shifting?

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Measuring the Impact of Developer Content: Metrics That Matter

Measuring the Impact of Developer Content: Metrics That Matter

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Common Pitfalls in Developer Content: The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Documentation

Common Pitfalls in Developer Content: The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Documentation

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Content Strategy for Startups: Storytelling as a Growth Driver

Content Strategy for Startups: Storytelling as a Growth Driver

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Adding Multiple Authors to my Astro Writing Blog: A Technical Walkthrough

Adding Multiple Authors to my Astro Writing Blog: A Technical Walkthrough

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Creating Content Developers Love: A Guide to Developer Experience (DX) Content

Creating Content Developers Love: A Guide to Developer Experience (DX) Content

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The Power of Storytelling in Tech Content

The Power of Storytelling in Tech Content

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The Quiet Revolution: AI, Critical Thinking, and a Home for Technical Humanities

The Quiet Revolution: AI, Critical Thinking, and a Home for Technical Humanities

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Google’s EEAT vs. Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle: SEO Is Just Ancient Rhetoric in Disguise

Google’s EEAT vs. Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle: SEO Is Just Ancient Rhetoric in Disguise

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Finding Your Voice: Why Speaking Matters in Tech

Finding Your Voice: Why Speaking Matters in Tech

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Responsible Innovation: Open Source Best Practices for Sustainable AI

Responsible Innovation: Open Source Best Practices for Sustainable AI

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Why We Used Dub.co to Track Links for Our Book Launch

Why We Used Dub.co to Track Links for Our Book Launch

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Why We Used Dub.co to Track Links and Prioritize Engagement for Our Book Launch

Why We Used Dub.co to Track Links and Prioritize Engagement for Our Book Launch

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Why I Used Kit for Our Novel’s Website Instead of Building My Own

Why I Used Kit for Our Novel’s Website Instead of Building My Own

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The Cost of Clinging to Legacy Software: Risks and Realities

The Cost of Clinging to Legacy Software: Risks and Realities

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Five Lessons for Five Years in Tech

Five Lessons for Five Years in Tech

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The Hidden Cost of Free: Why Open Source Sustainability Matters

The Hidden Cost of Free: Why Open Source Sustainability Matters

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Transparency is Open Source Currency: Lessons from PearAI

Transparency is Open Source Currency: Lessons from PearAI

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Opening Our Hearts and Our Repo: Virtual Coffee's Journey to Open Source

Opening Our Hearts and Our Repo: Virtual Coffee's Journey to Open Source

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Building a culture of shared ownership

Building a culture of shared ownership

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The Problem of Knowledge Debt in Tech

The Problem of Knowledge Debt in Tech

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The Human Dependency Graph: Why We Need to Rethink Security in Open Source

The Human Dependency Graph: Why We Need to Rethink Security in Open Source

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Preptember: Preparing for a Successful Hacktoberfest

Preptember: Preparing for a Successful Hacktoberfest

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The Art of Effective Open Source Contribution

The Art of Effective Open Source Contribution

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Maximizing Software Security: The Benefits of Tracking SBOMs in Your Projects

Maximizing Software Security: The Benefits of Tracking SBOMs in Your Projects

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Unseen Impact: A Holistic View of Open Source Contributions

Unseen Impact: A Holistic View of Open Source Contributions

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Telling Your Open Source Story

Telling Your Open Source Story

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How does Cal.com check out? 01:44

How does Cal.com check out?

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Introducing the OSCR: Celebrating Open Source Stars

Introducing the OSCR: Celebrating Open Source Stars

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Open Source Alchemy: How Open Source Community Contributions Turn Code into Gold

Open Source Alchemy: How Open Source Community Contributions Turn Code into Gold

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The Unexpected Power of 100 Days in Open Source

The Unexpected Power of 100 Days in Open Source

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The Compound Interest of Open Source: How Collaboration Leads to Growth

The Compound Interest of Open Source: How Collaboration Leads to Growth

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How do you balance showing your understanding of tech with showing you can apply your skills? 02:17

How do you balance showing your understanding of tech with showing you can apply your skills?

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Building Better Developers

Building Better Developers

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YOLO Coding: The Good, the Bad, and the Risky 03:20

YOLO Coding: The Good, the Bad, and the Risky

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