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by cmehdy 2082 days ago
It's a cool idea and looks pretty good!

I would however do a few things to make the experience worthwhile to the reader: either list the resume directly, or add many "easter eggs" that are the typical commands anyone will use when playing with the shell (as already mentioned: ls/pwd/man/cd etc). And the scrolling should be super fast - that sort of slow display is cooler in a movie than when actually having to wait for it.

If it's to share with someone actually into recruitment I'd do something like pre-write on the line `./resume.sh` and fake "echo" a message saying to just press ENTER, which then prints it all neatly at once for reading (and then you can always have a fake `ls`, a fake `resume.sh` file with read-only attributes, and you can troll your visitor differently depending on if they try to use vim/emacs/nano, and more things along those lines). An option to get a PDF would be awesome too.

I'm having a lot of fun thinking about doing things with what you've done (particularly at the expense of the visitor, I wonder what that says about me..), but ultimately you're the one who coded the site already - so all props to you!!

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Your ideas sound pretty cool to me, thanks. I'll implement them later. Cheers!