Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
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Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
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Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#2But why ?
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#3I think I’ll end up doing the same and then printing to a pdf like the article suggested. I previously used Google docs and got more frustrated than I get on even some of the hardest bugs I encounter.
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#4Over engineered. Just write it in pure HTML/CSS. It's a resume, you don't need anything more advanced.
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#5But why ?
why not?
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#6The end result looks like it can be made in pure HTML, not even CSS is needed.
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#7But why ?
Maybe to get experience with eleventy?
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#8This reminds me of writing my resume using nroff[0] when I was a junior engineer years ago. Times have changed but I get why he did it, even though I doubt I would have chosen the same tooling.
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#9Over engineered. Just write it in pure HTML/CSS. It's a resume, you don't need anything more advanced.
Yep. I revisited mine I made in 2015 and it still renders just fine. Haven't touched it in years. No build steps, no external tooling aside from a text editor and a browser.
Print to PDF if you need to via the browser, and you're good to go!
Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
#10I've been using LaTeX for mine for years and never looked back. I have it setup in such a way that I just comment or uncomment a few lins at the start and can easily include or exclude, or adjust, types of skills, work experience, length, etc.
Always produces a nice, easy to clean minimal pdf that has some protections against recruiters trying to copy and paste and change things.