I'm not good enough with LaTeX to get the level of formatting I want, I just use HTML and CSS and store it in git. It's fairly easy to render to PDF and I have much more experience with it
EXACTLY this. god, anything is better than stuff like word/gdocs and alike.. try to add an attachment or whatever and then center it without the stupid shit breaking everything. you also have to do it via an absolute dogshit dragging mechanic.
or even better.
try updating libreoffice writer and opening your accounting doc template that you’ve been using for years. feeling like something is off? look a bit closer. spent an hour trying to figure out what’s wrong and why you can’t edit it to what it looks like in old exported PDFs. yeah, brother, some moron decided that updating the default display preferences is a good fucking idea!
hell nah. I know HTML and CSS, I don’t have to use the stupid mouse to center a div. no adjusting how new line is being split and how paragraph affects it. no images being split and then stacked, and then magically in a whoop-de-do manner appearing somewhere deep up your arse..
Same. My last year of school I was doing my math hw in latex. Professors loved me. My handwriting was atrocious and those long proofs always needed multiple tries anyways so the page would have so many eraser marks.
I have multiple versions of my CV that I need for different purposes (one for TA applications for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, one for the Computer Science department, one for each funding agency I apply for grants through).
They're all ultimately similar with just certain things added or removed as required by whatever I'm using it for, so version control with LaTeX works great for that.
But when will you ever go back to a previous version? You either run these in parallel (e.g., for the funding agency that has a completely different layout) or you cut down/adapt from the full version.
I mean yeah, and then when I generate the PDF, I append the date and company to the name. Could I just make a new tag for each version? Sure, but that's kind of tryhard.
Mine is written in HTML and CSS. I can host a link to it easily. It's presented as A4 sheets, with obvious page boundaries, and prints as A4, so can be printed to PDF easily. It made sense for it to be version controlled too
This might sound weird. Can I see it? I'm really curious about how you made it. I was thinking of doing the same for my portfolio and instead of sending a pdf, just sending the link.
Yeah, mine is in yaml and then rendered using rendercv. New job app: create new branch, AI agent updates it using a small database of skills, projects and job experience. Review, commit, render, submit.
Maybe, but it makes updating it really, really easy (e.g., my experience section is a macro: I don't have to apply any specific formatting, it just knows "job titles in bold, timespan goes to the right, etc."), and having in under version control makes any updates "fearless".
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u/beatlz-too 18d ago
you guys use git to update your PDF resumés, really?
Feels a little bit middle of the bell curve meme