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Show HN: Résumé Shell

33 pointsby filkatronover 4 years ago

10 comments

cmehdyover 4 years ago
It&#x27;s a cool idea and looks pretty good!<p>I would however do a few things to make the experience worthwhile to the reader: either list the resume directly, or add many &quot;easter eggs&quot; that are the typical commands anyone will use when playing with the shell (as already mentioned: ls&#x2F;pwd&#x2F;man&#x2F;cd etc). And the scrolling should be super fast - that sort of slow display is cooler in a movie than when actually having to wait for it.<p>If it&#x27;s to share with someone actually into recruitment I&#x27;d do something like pre-write on the line `.&#x2F;resume.sh` and fake &quot;echo&quot; a message saying to just press ENTER, which then prints it all neatly at once for reading (and then you can always have a fake `ls`, a fake `resume.sh` file with read-only attributes, and you can troll your visitor differently depending on if they try to use vim&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;nano, and more things along those lines). An option to get a PDF would be awesome too.<p>I&#x27;m having a lot of fun thinking about doing things with what you&#x27;ve done (particularly at the expense of the visitor, I wonder what that says about me..), but ultimately you&#x27;re the one who coded the site already - so all props to you!!
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mathieuhover 4 years ago
Just a tip, if you&#x27;re posting this around places I&#x27;d put the acute accents on résumé, at first glance I thought this was going to be something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mosh.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mosh.org&#x2F;</a><p>Cool idea though
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Mister_Snugglesover 4 years ago
As someone who occasionally hires technical people, I&#x27;m torn on this one.<p>The process at my employer is that resumes are submitted via the web site, they get stored in a shared folder (each application gets a folder with all of their attachments plus whatever they entered into the form on the web site), and once the competition closes the people doing the hiring (usually a manager and a team lead) review them.<p>When I review resumes, I spend about 30s per resume on my first pass through. This is where I just visually scan the document for keywords. For example, if I was hiring a Django developer (I&#x27;m not, this is contrived), I&#x27;d look for Django (obviously), but also for other Python web frameworks (e.g., Flask, Pylons, web2py), other big Python frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy), and other related technologies that we might use in conjunction with Django (e.g., PostgreSQL, Celery, etc).<p>Once I&#x27;ve completed the first pass, I take a deeper dive into the shortlisted resumes, decide who I want to interview, etc.<p>As a technical person, I&#x27;m intrigued by this resume. It&#x27;s presented in an interesting way, and the presentation itself can even serve as a living showcase of this person&#x27;s skills.<p>As someone doing hiring, I&#x27;m wondering how this will show up in that shared folder. Will it be a PDF with a link that leads me to this resume? Will there be no files attached and a link placed in the comment box? Will I pass on a potentially great hire because I didn&#x27;t actually see a resume during my first pass?<p>I do think this resume would work really well as supplemental material to a traditional one. One of the best people we hired submitted a traditional cover letter&#x2F;resume as a PDF, but had hyperlinks within the PDF to online supplemental material. This worked really well for my process because they passed the initial scan, and the hyperlinks let the applicant provide a lot of detail that would have overwhelmed a traditional resume format.
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filkatronover 4 years ago
Hi HN, hope you&#x27;re having a great day!<p>I&#x27;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).<p>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 :).<p>You&#x27;ll probably quickly see there are a few bugs (on mobile prolly, etc.) please let me know in the comments. Also, the &quot;help command&quot; feature is not implemented yet, just &quot;help&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not usually into web programming so I used jQuery.<p>The repo is here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;feelqah&#x2F;feelqah.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;feelqah&#x2F;feelqah.github.io</a><p>Thanks in advance guys!
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Jefro118over 4 years ago
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&#x27;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.<p>Still really cool though. I made a prototype resume myself recently[0], great to see more of these creative ways of showing off experience.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prototype.profiled.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prototype.profiled.app</a>
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prependover 4 years ago
This is neat, but doesn’t support the first shell commands I tried- ls, pwd, man.<p>Maybe try to map these commands to doing something related to your resume.<p>This plays more like an Infocom text game than a shell because the commands are arbitrary and need to be learned.<p>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.
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jolmgover 4 years ago
The text cursor is put below the prompt when the window isn&#x27;t fullscreen:<p><pre><code> [feelqah@github ~]$ | </code></pre> Also, on trying to copy the prompt to paste here, I noticed the mouse cursor disappears on everything but links, and whatever I select is immediately unselected.<p>It&#x27;s a cool project.
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zevedover 4 years ago
really nice job, I like<p>you have an XSS vulnerability tho :) you should escape &#x2F; strip out tag-like content<p>more info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cheatsheetseries.owasp.org&#x2F;cheatsheets&#x2F;Cross_Site_Scripting_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cheatsheetseries.owasp.org&#x2F;cheatsheets&#x2F;Cross_Site_Sc...</a>
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pojntfxover 4 years ago
Love the site! The actual entry field is using a non-monospace font though which looks a little off ;)
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chadlaviover 4 years ago
This is a great example of why you should spell it &quot;résumé&quot;. I thought this was some product related to resuming a previous shell session.
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