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by franciscop 3236 days ago
My first freelancing job (previous jobs were internships) came from this project getting to the HN front page: https://umbrellajs.com/

It basically skyrocketed from there to what you can see in https://francisco.io/resume/ , with basically all experiences afterwards building on top of that (either directly, by reference or just as credentials for the next ones). People (including Google) also seem to love https://picnicss.com/ and I normally use it for showing my front-end skills.

Something I found surprising is that I got a really high quality contacts from my public projects. I would say about 50% of the job offers I get through my developer persona are high quality which I consider (even if many don't work in the end) vs what I used to get through Linkedin or even Facebook (both closed now) which were exactly 100% low quality/SPAM.

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Really like your resume layout. What did you build it with? Is that an open-source layout? Would love to use it.
I didn't think it'd be so interesting as to publish it separately, thanks! It's built on top of my own Picnic CSS (in above comment) but with many px/em/cm-specific adjustments as seen in https://francisco.io/resume/cv.css

Feel free to reuse any of the code under the MIT.

That is a really nice looking CV. I might take advantage of your generosity and do mine in a similar fashion, thanks!
Umbrella JS is a well deserving project. You won me over with the little animated illustrations. I feel like people have attached those to "quality" and "legitness"; at least I do.

I am going to play with that lib this weekend. Could be good for small Eletron/NW.JS apps.

Thanks! Nowadays I am leaning on my own https://superdom.site/ for simpler/over the weekend projects. I almost made it into a next iteration of Umbrella JS but thought it'd be too big of a change and decided to separate it.

I prefer superdom syntax and I consider it the last and best iteration I could make following jQuery's philosophy (there are a bunch of dead jsfiddles from Umbrella to Superdom). It feels a bit hacky but it's quite legible and intuitive. It is not so compatible (no IE/old Android) and the main thing missing from Umbrella is the whole AJAX side, but for that I mostly use the new standard fetch().

I keep telling myself I gotta make superdom's website worth of the code, but I never get around to do it :)

Just 'cause I'm a grammar nazi: you misspelled "Andreessen Horowitz" in your resume. Unless there's a company with a name awfully close to Andreessen Horowitz, of course.
I triple checked it and still got it wrong, thanks for the tip :(

Edit: fixed + added the favicon

Nice resume page. The umbrellajs link actually points to ubrellajs.com (missing the M)
Aside from looking really nice, that's a seriously impressive CV. Well done!

Hola de Madrid ;)

Hola, veo que estas en el slack de Madrid Devs (;