Show HN: Résumé Shell

#1

Post by filkatron » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 10:18 AM UTC

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#2

Post by filkatron » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

Hi HN, hope you're having a great day!

I'm currently looking for a remote position as an Embedded Engineer. So I decided to make a shell like resume webpage instead of a classic personal website (since shells = love).

The project is version 0.00001 (lol), just wanted to ask you guys what you think of the idea and if you have any tips on what to improve :).

You'll probably quickly see there are a few bugs (on mobile prolly, etc.) please let me know in the comments. Also, the "help command" feature is not implemented yet, just "help".

I'm not usually into web programming so I used jQuery.

The repo is here:

https://github.com/feelqah/feelqah.github.io

Thanks in advance guys!

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#3

Post by pojntfx » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:12 AM UTC

Love the site! The actual entry field is using a non-monospace font though which looks a little off ;)

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#4

Post by AmorBielyi » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:13 AM UTC

filkatron wrote: post #2

Hi HN, hope you're having a great day! I'm currently looking for a remote position as an Embedded Engineer. So I decided to make a shell like resume webpage instead of a classic personal website (since shells = love). The project is version 0.00001 (lol), just wanted to ask you guys what you think of the idea and if you have any tips on what to improve :). You'll probably quickly see there are a few bugs (on mobile p…

Hello. This is a really fun way to showcase your CV and coding skills at the same time I think. Well done! Starred.

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#5

Post by filkatron » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:58 AM UTC

pojntfx wrote: post #3

Love the site! The actual entry field is using a non-monospace font though which looks a little off ;)

Thanks! I'll fix it straight away.

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#6

Post by filkatron » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 12:11 PM UTC

AmorBielyi wrote: post #4

filkatron wrote: post #2

Hi HN, hope you're having a great day! I'm currently looking for a remote position as an Embedded Engineer. So I decided to make a shell like resume webpage instead of a classic personal website (since shells = love). The project is version 0.00001 (lol), just wanted to ask you guys what you think of the idea and if you have any tips on what to improve :). You'll probably quickly see there are a few bugs (on mobile p…

Hello. This is a really fun way to showcase your CV and coding skills at the same time I think. Well done! Starred.

Thank you very much! I'll "polish" it even more then.

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#7

Post by Jefro118 » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 12:19 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. From a UX standpoint, my first intuition was to use ls to list out the directories and to use tab to autocomplete, neither of which worked. The animation is cool but it's a little slow and might be frustrating if I was trying to read the resume for real to get info rather than just playing around with the demo.

Still really cool though. I made a prototype resume myself recently[0], great to see more of these creative ways of showing off experience.

[0] - https://prototype.profiled.app

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#8

Post by mathieuh » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 12:22 PM UTC

Just a tip, if you're posting this around places I'd put the acute accents on résumé, at first glance I thought this was going to be something like https://mosh.org/

Cool idea though

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

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Post by prepend » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 12:27 PM UTC

This is neat, but doesn’t support the first shell commands I tried- ls, pwd, man.

Maybe try to map these commands to doing something related to your resume.

This plays more like an Infocom text game than a shell because the commands are arbitrary and need to be learned.

If you could treat some of the sections like a file system then I wouldn’t have to type “help” to see I need to run the “skills” command. Maybe just have skills as a file so when I type “ls” I see them. Or when I try to change directories it navigates the resume or something.

Re: Show HN: Résumé Shell

#10

Post by PretzelPirate » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 12:31 PM UTC

filkatron wrote: post #2

Hi HN, hope you're having a great day! I'm currently looking for a remote position as an Embedded Engineer. So I decided to make a shell like resume webpage instead of a classic personal website (since shells = love). The project is version 0.00001 (lol), just wanted to ask you guys what you think of the idea and if you have any tips on what to improve :). You'll probably quickly see there are a few bugs (on mobile p…

This is cool, but as a hiring manager I prefer to be able to read the resume quickly and easily. I’ll probably have over 100 resumes to look at for any position and a finite amount of time I can allocate to each resume.