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Fantastic. The Unix hackers are alive and well. Keep it real.


I did my resume in groff once, formatted like a man page. It didn't look half-bad either.


This is a great idea


100%, I'd love to see the template if GP ever makes a blog post about it


I'll see if I can find it. I checked archive.org but it didn't save a copy (it saved the PDF version though, apparently that was good enough to save).

It wasn't the craziest resume I did. I applied for a company that made this UI tool for enterprises. It was a half-WHSIWYG, half-Lua tool. I downloaded the demo and spent a week building my resume as a UI, then sent it to the team. I got an interview with the top level guys and a team of programmers, and they excitedly asked me questions about how I made it and how I figured out certain features (like this image passthrough functionality that "none of their clients could figure out"). It was all very exciting but I wasn't ultimately hired (they were being acquired at the time, perhaps that had something to do with it). I have the video on the UI and the making of it, perhaps I'll post it one day once I anonymize the company's name in the video.


I’m not GP but I also ported my resume from latex to groff a few years ago for fun: https://github.com/qartis/groff_resume/

I’m not experienced with groff so the code isn’t great but I was quite happy with the typesetting (and the compile times!)


I think Unix hackers would get horrified by how wrong and non do-one-thing-well my setup is. ed(1) was never intended to be an SSG, after all.




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