GitHub résumé (resume.github.com)

Productivity

resume builder

SHOW HN2012

301points
75comments
#36of 1,677 in 2012
Top 3%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

11 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 16 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.

Execution: 2 for, 9 againstIdea: 3 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Nice look and feel, useful way to present a developer profile

    From 3 comments
    • Awesome work. I've been wishing something like this existed for a while now.
      richo on HN
    • It has a nice look and feel.
      kushalashok on HN
    • Brilliant. It's the best resume generator based on GitHub I've seen so far.
      noirman on HN

Objections

  • Only lists the author's own GitHub repos, missing contributions to other projects and hosts

    From 4 comments
    • 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…
      perlgeek on HN
    • 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…
      greggman on HN
    • It would be nice if the resume included popular projects the user has contributed to.
      bochi on HN
    • Agreed. I've submitted lots of pull requests and taken over a small, popular project but none of it shows up.
      AncientPC on HN
  • Not really a résumé, more a portfolio; GitHub focus is questionable

    From 2 comments
    • This is a portfolio, not a resume.
      scott_s on HN
    • 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…
      justinhj on HN
  • Broken or buggy in places (NaN dates, loading errors, IE failures)

    From 4 comments
    • 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…
      Swizec on HN
    • I'm seeing "member since NaN" and "created NaN" on iPad. Cool stuff :D
      kvnn on HN
    • 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.
      BobPalmer on HN
    • Nice work! In some résumé, the organisation section is continuously loading (maybe a bug when it's empty?)
      ecesena on HN

Requests

  • Include contributions to repos the user doesn't own

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      perlgeek on HN
    • It would be nice if the resume included popular projects the user has contributed to.
      bochi on HN
  • Include Stack Overflow or other external work

    From 2 comments
    • What if you could also include some work from the users SO profile?
      jayesh_sidhwani on HN
    • 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…
      justinhj on HN
  • Show recent activity

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      caseyohara on HN

Questions

  • Can you see contributions to other projects via the API?

    From 2 comments
    • 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.
      prezjordan on HN
    • 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…
      perlgeek on HN

Alternatives named

  • Personal GitHub portfolio repos and similar résumé templates

    From 4 comments
    • I have something similar, though it's more like a GitHub portfolio than a resume: https://github.com/dideler/projects You can view it in action: http://dennisideler.com/projects
      reledi on HN
    • It's weird how it looks very similar to mine: http://resume.korokithakis.net/ We probably both stole the theme from the same place and I can't remember.
      StavrosK on HN
    • Like other people here, I have also created a resume that uses the Github API. It's nothing special, just an example of how easy it is to make something like this.…
      wldlyinaccurate on HN
    • Looks like Matt Brown's resume template: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/blog/2009/05/sample-resume-template/
      nickknw on HN
  • Ohloh and Stack Overflow careers profiles

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      greggman on HN
    • 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…
      justinhj on HN

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