This repository contains the latest version of my resume.
I write the content in markdown, style the document with CSS and use Chrome to print to PDF the HTML generated using pandoc.
While this may seem like an elaborate setup, it's really not that complicated. In fact, one of the main motivations for this setup was to simplify the previous version that was written in LaTeX.
Since I don't really use LaTeX, I kept forgetting everything but the basics and had to look things up constantly as I was trying to make changes.
I opted for markdown because it was simple and I write it relatively often.
The problem with markdown is that it's hard to get it to be compact and look decent without adding some complexity.
Even though this has been built primarily to fit my needs, and I haven't planned on making it into a template, I think it can still be used as one.
Small changes can be made through GitHub web app. When you open a pull request, a GitHub action generates PDF and PNG previews and uploads them as artifacts.
For bigger changes, where you need a tighter feedback loop, you can clone the repo
and use the live_compile.py script to get the updated preview
after changing the relevant files.
When working locally, you may need to provide a CHROME environment variable,
which represents the command used for running the browser to generate the PDF.
It defaults to chrome, which is what I use on my machine.
I don't use Google Docs, so it wouldn't have saved any time, the end result would probably look worse, and I wouldn't enjoy the process of making the resume.
I tried using wkhtmltopdf which initially seemed like the default tool for the
job. Later, I found out it was unmaintained and soon started facing difficulties
as my design was getting more complicated.
I wasn't happy with the alternatives either and was ready to give up on the whole idea when I remembered that Chrome has a print option, which seemed to give a decent output.
The pdf outputs that Chrome generates are great and are generated reasonably fast. In addition to that, Chrome is available on every machine I use, so it's not like I'll be installing it only for this purpose.
