58 | Building Meaningful Communities with Bekah Hawrot-Weigel

This 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 you.Check out daily.devHashnodeCreating a developer blog is crucial in creating an online presence for yourself. It’s proof of work for your future employer. Hashnode makes it easy to start a blog in seconds on your custom domain for free. It’s fully optimized for developers and supports writing in Markdown, rich embeds, publishing from GitHub repository, syntax highlighting, and edge caching with Next.js blogs deployed on Vercel. On top of these, Hashnode is free from paywall, ads, and sign-up prompts.Hashnode is a community of developers, engineers, and people in tech. Your article gets instant readership from their growing community.Check out Hashnode, and join the community.Show Notes0:00 Introducing: Bekah Hawrot-Weigel2:10 Parenting Tips4:43 Virtual Coffee11:01 Tech Stack for the WebsiteEleventyRemixCraftCMS13:03 Learning New TechnologiesJekyllTensorFlowGant Laborde Book18:13 Sponsor: daily.dev19:13 Working with the Basics24:03 Asking QuestionsVirtual Coffee Discussions on GitHub30:51 Participating in a Community35:34 Sponsor: Hashnode36:23 Renaming Networking to Investing in Your Community40:25 Answering "Why Should we Hire You?"41:12 Finding the Community that you want to be Part Of Through StorytellingHow to get Run Over by a Truck48:29 Soapbox: A Person Centered Approach to Build Both Internal and External CommunitiesNever Split the Difference52:54 Community Shout OutsVirtual CoffeeCincinatti Software Craftsmanshipcfe.devLearn Build Teach Discord CommunityYou Got This Events