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Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Also, to anyone who forks this and decides to use, you might want to remove the authors original google analytics!

Good point - I just added that to the "Building Your Own" section of the Readme.

I'm not criticising, I'm only trying to complement what you've already done. The buttons show an underline on Safari on OSX when they're hovered over. I'm working on it now, and will post a link with my fixes later on. Fantastic work, thanks so much!

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Good point - I just added that to the "Building Your Own" section of the Readme.

I'm not criticising, I'm only trying to complement what you've already done. The buttons show an underline on Safari on OSX when they're hovered over. I'm working on it now, and will post a link with my fixes later on. Fantastic work, thanks so much!

Thanks for the positive feedback! I can look at the CSS soon, but if you want to put in a pull request on Github that would also be appreciated!

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Really cute, props on the originality. The general design is good (I loved the skills bars!), but your Experience sections looks a bit too wall-o-text. I can't imagine reading through all that.

If I were you I'd try reducing the word count as much as possible as well as applying a very very subtle background shade for each position to set them apart (or something similar to that).

Anyway, awesome stuff.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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I'm not criticising, I'm only trying to complement what you've already done. The buttons show an underline on Safari on OSX when they're hovered over. I'm working on it now, and will post a link with my fixes later on. Fantastic work, thanks so much!

Thanks for the positive feedback! I can look at the CSS soon, but if you want to put in a pull request on Github that would also be appreciated!

Best way to fix those (Website-->) buttons is to remove them. They are very distracting! Just make the titles links with some suitable style.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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I like mostly everything I see, but I have one criticism. The bars in the technical section seem arbitrary. It seems that a person viewing this CV wouldn't know quite what to take away from it. To start, I am assuming this is some sort of proficiency. The proficiency of a skill is relative only to the proficiency of the other skills which doesn't tell a person much. Is there some way that you can give the bar a baseline to work from. Something along the lines of 'no experience' -> 'comfortable' -> 'proficient'.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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I set up my resume[1] with PDF exports using Docverter. It takes Markdown or HTML and turns it into PDFs and Word docs. [1]: http://www.bugsplat.info/resume.html (Disclaimer: I also built Docverter)

this is a really well done project, did you build the whole app yourself? EDIT: I guess you just answered this :) awesome job, it looks amazing!

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it. The integration turned out to be really easy.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

#18
I love those skill bars.

Because they say something meaningful, potentially, namely what you're relatively better or worse at, more or less experienced at. Without committing the sin of telling the world what your objectively absolute rating is in some supposedly global but in actuality undefined frame of reference.

Example: "I'm a 6/10 on Apples and an 8 on Oranges, and Bob over there says he's 9 on Apples and 1 on bananas. Turns out in actuality I'm way better at Apples than Bob, but Bob kicks most people's asses at bananas!"

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Cool idea. This is something I've wanted to do for a while. I'll have to fork this later for my own use.

Few things I noticed that could be improved. Your technical section isn't very clear on what the graphs mean. Do the bars mean the amount of time you've used that technology, the number of projects you've built with that technology, or your experience? It's creative, but it's hard for me to understand what they mean (especially relative to one another).

I also noticed that you didn't include a print CSS. Yeah, physical resumes are not great, but they won't go away for a while. It would be good to have a print CSS that replicates generally what print resumes looks like. Right now it doesn't look very good. It wouldn't be hard to fix.

On another design note, I think it would look better if the pill links didn't have a blue underline on hover.

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