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Show HN: My Github résumé

301 points| negrit | 13 years ago |resume.github.com | reply

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[+] perlgeek|13 years ago|reply
This is very nice, but it has the same flaw that most of the github résumé generators have: it only lists my own projects, not those from other people or organizations to which I (heavily) contribute, so it doesn't show the repos that get two thirds of all of my patches.

Does the github API not allow to query all the public repos to which I have commit access?

[+] veyron|13 years ago|reply
You can't see all repos for which you have commit access. (e.g. if you are in an organization, you have to query the organization to get the fact that you are a contributor)

Go to https://api.github.com/users/your_user_here/repos to see what repos are accessible.

NOW: it is possible to iterate through all of the repos in Github and build it up, but that's far too much legwork and would need to be run continually.

[+] greggman|13 years ago|reply
nor does it show all the work done off github. Work at code.google.com or sourceforge.net or the myriad of other places someone might be doing great work.

For example http://www.ohloh.net/ let's you add any public repo.

[+] caseyohara|13 years ago|reply
Alternatively, an additional section could be "These are the projects I've been working on recently", an aggregate of recent activity. (Commits, pull requests & comments from https://api.github.com/users/your_user_here/events.)

As resumes go, I think what someone is currently or recently working on is especially interesting because you can tell what they are excited about at the moment.

[+] scott_s|13 years ago|reply
This is a portfolio, not a resume.
[+] Swizec|13 years ago|reply
Love the idea! Usually when I send my "resume" to people it's just a short email with a link to github and my blog.

This does in fact look much better than a vanilla github profile. Better to navigate.

But it does feel a bit strange to read text written in the first person about me ... that I didn't write. Although I guess resumes are supposed to be in first person.

EDIT: there's a bug, going to this url http://resume.github.com/?swizec&utm_source=buffer&b... ... breaks things

[+] justinhj|13 years ago|reply
This is a nice tool but I don't get the obsession with github. Surely resumes should be about what you worked on and how it went rather than where you host it? People use other public repositories a lot, like Google Code. In addition many really good programmers may not be able or willing to work on open source code. I do like the Stack Overflow careers profile though, which allows you to add links to open source work on a few services. Though I get the irony that that site is heavily biased towards people that are active on Stack Overflow.
[+] bochi|13 years ago|reply
It would be nice if the resume included popular projects the user has contributed to.
[+] AncientPC|13 years ago|reply
Agreed. I've submitted lots of pull requests and taken over a small, popular project but none of it shows up.
[+] smcl|13 years ago|reply
"I'm a developer with public repository. I've been using github.com since NaN."

I think it should read "I'm a developer with a public repository" and the NaN thing is a bit odd.

(I was just curious what my resume would look like as I don't use github much)

[+] rumblestrut|13 years ago|reply
I've been working on putting my _actual_ resume on Github using Markdown (when finished, I'll have a HTML version up using Markdown and Strapdown.js, too).

https://github.com/rumblestrut/ejg-resume

I've neglected my resume for a long time and recently felt the need to update it. After considering different options, I thought "Why not just put this thing on Github?" Ultimately, I just wanted something that would withstand the test of multiple document formats over time, and a text file was the best thing I could think of.

So yes, quite literally, Github is my resume.

[+] nj|13 years ago|reply
I would love it if people started including an "apply with Github" link on their job sites where they usually have an "apply with LinkedIn" link now.
[+] Afal|13 years ago|reply
This reminds me of something I made for my github page (made long before github pages had an Automatic Page Generator). You can fork it and change the name of the repo to <your username>.github.com to make your own personalised github page quickly.

https://github.com/dafrancis/dafrancis.github.com

[+] saidinesh5|13 years ago|reply
Hahah, Nice work! i honestly thought it was something like https://github.com/saidinesh5/MyResume ... (hint: the commit messages are more important than the commit diffs :P ) .. i have been quite lazy to update it and correct some design flaws though..
[+] spacemanaki|13 years ago|reply
That's a nice idea, but I'm a bit skeptical of your specific implementation. Would you really want to be so honest on your resume as to admit that you added Java to it after cramming for a job interview for 2 days? https://github.com/saidinesh5/MyResume/commit/22e6aca7711491...

Sorry to pick on you, but it was just the first commit message I read, and it stood out as a particularly bad resume bullet point.

[+] BobPalmer|13 years ago|reply
Weird... every sample link flashes the resume then shows 'ut oh :(' in IE9 and IE10... Odd, since I'm not seeing anything on this that would explain this technical limitation.
[+] prezjordan|13 years ago|reply
Very nice, I was thinking of this in the shower (of course) today. Is there any way to see my contributions to other projects? This is honestly a feature I would pay for.
[+] kvnn|13 years ago|reply
I'm seeing "member since NaN" and "created NaN" on iPad.

Cool stuff :D

[+] beezee|13 years ago|reply
just filed an issue - but the error message is pretty obnoxious for a catch all- bound to the $(window) error event is a catch all error that blames me for not having enough data (56 public repos not enough?)

This means that anyone who knows this url and decides to look me up will see a message accusing me of being a non-producer if anything goes wrong with the resume