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Dear Past Bekah,

Confession: I never thought I’d be a developer. I thought that I would finish my bootcamp, and I fully believed that no one would hire me. I thought maybe I would end up teaching beginner coding courses because it’s not...

I’ve been doing something new with my coding. I’ve been doing two-hour code sprints–which seems more like a 5k, but whatever sprint is easier to say–where I eliminate distractions and just code. So no social media, email, meetings, slack, etc....

Ok, if that title doesn’t automatically make the Flight of the Concords Part-Time Model play in your head, you should go listen to it right now. It’s been one very interesting first week of being a dev, and I had...

There are stages of learning. There are stages of being part of a community. This morning I went back and reread my blog post from last Mother’s Day, and most of what I wrote still stands. So today I want...

Look, if you’re a parent, I don’t have to tell you that life is hard with kids. It’s hard when they’re a baby, it’s hard when they’re adolescents, it’s hard when they’re teenagers. It’s hard. But let’s add to that....

I have a love-hate relationship with my trauma. I hate it because of how it stopped my life for so long, how it prevented me from being myself, how it made me feel like I was stuck in this bubble...