Jeremy Friesen

Recovering interrupter with occasional relapses, lover of spreadsheets, blogger, programmer, adept debugger, conjurer of analogies, and probably other things.

Goshen, IN Joined on Sep 10, 2021 devto@jeremyfriesen.com https://takeonrules.com

Education

Goshen College

Work

Senior Lead Software Engineer at Scientist.com

Elisp, Javascript

Ruby, Rails, Elisp, Emacs, SQL

Hugo, Emacs, Forem

Mentoring, Coaching

65 posts published

459 comments written

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Jeremy Friesen

Mar 28 '22

What's One Thing You'd Tell Your Younger (Dev) Self?

#todayilearned #beginners #programming

27 29

1 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Mar 17 '22

The Why and How of Yardoc

#todayilearned #documentation #ruby #lsp

6 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Oct 8 '21

Trick or Treat, I've Joined the DEV Team

#meta #career #developer

39 7

5 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Jan 10

Reflections on the Skills That Have Helped Me Continue as a Developer

#programming

9 min read

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Jeremy Friesen

Dec 15 '22

Using Git Bisect and Other Commands to Determine When Something Was Removed

#programming #git

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 19 '22

Project Dispatch Menu with Org Mode Metadata, Denote, and Transient

#emacs

6 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 9 '22

On Breaking Down Larger Projects

#programming

7 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 5 '22

Public and Private APIs versus Public and Private Methods

#programming #ruby

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Oct 5 '22

Leveraging Commit Messages as Pull Request Text

#programming #git

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 20 '22

Org Mode Capture Templates and Time Tracking

#emacs #programming

6 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Oct 4 '22

Everyday Custom Git Commands

#programming #git

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Aug 30 '22

Differentiating Ruby’s Classes and Objects

#programming #ruby

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Aug 26 '22

Joining Scientist.com's SoftServ Team

#programming

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Aug 24 '22

Today I Learned about Difftastic

#todayilearned #programming #shell

1 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Jul 30 '22

Commit Messages Do Matter

#programming #git #documentation

5 3

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jul 20 '22

On Ruby Keyword Args, Structs, Splat, and Double Splat Operators (Oh My!)

#programming #ruby

14 2

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jul 15 '22

SQL Proof of Concept for Collating Different Article Feed Selection Criteria for DEV.to

#programming #postgres #meta

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jul 6 '22

Responsible Monkey Patching of Ruby Methods

#programming #ruby #rails

21 3

5 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jul 3 '22

That Time When the Only Test and Development Environment Was Production

#programming #git

22 1

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jun 15 '22

A Second Walk Through of Composing a SQL Query

#programming #meta #postgres #sql

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4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jun 12 '22

Walk Through of Using Postgresql and Blazer to Generate a Cohort Report

#programming #sql #postgres #meta

5 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jun 8 '22

What's a More "Advanced" Topic You'd Like to See on DEV?

#discuss #meta

41 34

1 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jun 5 '22

Redefining Ruby Instance Methods at Runtime

#programming #ruby #beginners

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jun 5 '22

Leveraging Instance Variables in Ruby Classes

#programming #ruby #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jun 4 '22

Adding Reproducible Randomization to SQL Queries

#postgres #programming #meta #sql

16 2

5 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Jun 2 '22

Using Ruby to Merge Traveller and Stars without Number System Generators

#showdev #ruby #programming #practice

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

May 14 '22

Benefits of Having a Call Method for Your Ruby Object

#programming #ruby

21 7

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 29 '22

On Sharpening Your Tools

#emacs #programming #productivity #devjournal

22 2

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 29 '22

Working on Open Source Community Software Is My Job

#mentorship #programming #workexperiments

26 2

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 23 '22

Diving into Dev's Relevancy Feed Builder

#postgres #meta #ruby #rails

27 2

6 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 22 '22

Digging into Postgresql and DEV

#todayilearned #postgres #sql #meta

42 7

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 10 '22

What's Something You Want to Learn How to Do in Your Code Editor?

#discuss

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1 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 8 '22

These Are the [Feed] Levers I Know I Know

#ruby #meta #opensource

25 2

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 7 '22

How do you orient to a "new to you" code base?

#discuss #programming #productivity

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1 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Apr 6 '22

What Do You Consider a Must Have for Your Code Editor?

#discuss #programming

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1 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Apr 2 '22

Org-Mode, Git Logs, and Org-Babel for Running Reports

#emacs #orgmode #knowledgesharing #git

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Apr 1 '22

Application Exception Handling in Rails

#todayilearned #ruby #rails #knowledgesharing

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Mar 31 '22

Carrier Wave and How to Test Uploading a New Image to a ActiveRecord::Base Model

#todayilearned #programming #rails

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Mar 31 '22

The Three Caches of Forem

#todayilearned #documentation #programming #rails

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Mar 25 '22

Using a File as a Template in Emacs

#emacs #productivity #documentation

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Mar 19 '22

Regarding Documentation: A Letter to My Earlier Selfs

#documentation #programming #philosophy

26 2

8 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Mar 16 '22

Further Into Emacs with Pcase, Backquotes, and Commas

#todayilearned #emacs #orgmode

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Mar 1 '22

Note Taking with Org Roam and Transclusion

#emacs #knowledge #orgmode

5 1

8 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Feb 8 '22

Org Roam, Emacs, and Ever Refining the Note Taking Process

#emacs #productivity #writing

9 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jan 13 '22

Emacs Packages to Get Stuff Done

#todayilearned #emacs #productivity

6 2

5 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jan 12 '22

Resolving an Unable to Resolve Link Error for Org Mode in Emacs

#todayilearned #emacs #documentation

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Jan 3 '22

Forem Feed Experiment One: January Results

#meta #product #ux #changelog

23 5

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Dec 20 '21

The Serendipity of Pairing with a New Developer

#todayilearned #productivity #git

47 2

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Dec 2 '21

Ruby Script to Find Local Branches with Deleted Remotes

#todayilearned #ruby #github #git

11 5

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Nov 30 '21

Keeping the Stakes Low while Breaking Production

#todayilearned #programming #meta #sre

27 5

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Nov 25 '21

Adding Emacs Function for my Forem Pull Requests

#emacs #github #meta #documentation

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Nov 18 '21

Gently Embracing Different Regular Expression Approaches in Ruby

#programming #ruby #tutorial #regex

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 17 '21

Send Anything in OS X to Emacs for Editing

#todayilearned #emacs #osx

2 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Nov 13 '21

On Writing Documentation

#documentation

49 2

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Nov 11 '21

Further Hacking on Emacs for Github Pull Requests

#emacs #programming #git

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 9 '21

Creating a Documentation Dashboard and Emacs Function

#documentation #emacs #productivity

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 6 '21

Emacs Function to Open Magit Log PR at Point

#github #emacs #programming

1 min read

Jeremy Friesen for The DEV Team

Nov 3 '21

Building and Documenting a Nuanced ActiveRecord Approach

#ruby #rails #postgres #meta

8 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Oct 28 '21

Practicing Postgresql and Postulating (Im)Provements

#postgres #programming

6 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Oct 21 '21

Orienteering in the Time of Remote Work

#devjournal #career #remote

5 1

3 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Oct 10 '21

Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits I Want to Develop

#blogging #bloggingengine #devto #emacs

5 4

5 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Sep 10 '21

Whipping Up a Quick Emacs Helper Function for Hugo

#bloggingengine #devto #emacs #hugo

4 min read

Jeremy Friesen

Nov 6 '21

Adding More Tag Rendering Functions for SHR in Emacs

#emacs

4 min read

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