[billpg]

"That's very nice but can you email me a copy in Microsoft Word DOCX format please?"

[jen729w]

I’m just about to live this hell. On advice from a friend, my response will be a simple one: no, because it doesn’t exist. It was written in Markdown [0]. Here’s a PDF.

I’m expecting the usual pushback, and will reciprocate. I’ll let you know how it goes.

[0]: https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume/blob/main/resume.md

(Yeah I shamelessly inserted my own résumé.)

[lyjackal]

Pandoc does a good job of generating docx files from markdown

[jamwil]

Went through this. Gave up and remade it in Word. Practical beats pure sometimes. Tough for us HN types.

[ant6n]

Can’t u just insert a screenshot of the of the pdf in a word document?

[jamwil]

Not if you want the job. They run the word files through screening software which processes the text.

[Aeolun]

I gave up, I now generate my CV in docx from JSON, and convert that to PDF.

[rthomas6]

I work for a company that was acquired by Leidos relatively recently. Hello fellow coworker.

[nwmcsween]

Sure thing!

unzip resume.docx; cd resume; dd if=/dev/random of=crap.tax bs=1M count=19;cd ..; zip resume.docx resume

[Something1234]

You're going to be sitting there for a while waiting for blocking random to fill 19MB. You want urandom.

[chungy]

These days, blocking random isn't a thing anymore. /dev/random and /dev/urandom just do the same non-blocking operation.

[quickthrower2]

Reply with:

   traceroute cv6.poinsignon.org | pandoc -o whywhywhy-o-why.docx