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Personal website template - an open source project

José Coelho on December 31, 2019

The idea A few months ago I started looking for a new job and one of the first steps I took was to build my personal webpage with my CV ...
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Patrick Hanford

This looks fantastic, and well done on making it portable for any dev to use. I'll definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a quick magic bullet.

I do really like the timeline from the resume JSON, but I will say the skills section with percentages is a trend that's never made much sense to me. Scripting skills are 95% of what? Your overall skill-set? But then Troubleshooting is also 95% so what's the overall value? There is absolutely an importance in demonstrating your proficiency in certain areas, but I don't believe the percentages do the job, just adds confusion.

I did previously have something similar on my site which aggregated from my Github contributions to determine percentages of languages used from all contributions. This is slightly better since there's an absolute value, but even still, it gets skewed (big stylesheet imports can make CSS seem like your top language).

I would say (from my own personal observation, I'm no authority on this topic) that the percentages themselves are often ignored and just an obstacle in the way of reading a skills list. Maybe this could be best converted to a sectioned list of skills with proficiency enumerations like "Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Master" similar to LinkedIn?

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Phil

I wasn't involved with the candidate selection process, but recently I was on an interview panel for a Java role. One candidate's CV listed their skills as percentages. It made no sense. What does 70% Java mean? They know 70% of everything there is to know about Java? Certainly not! So what, then?

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BEGRAFX • Edited

I was wondering this same thing. 70% of your projects involve Java? Or, like you say, "they know 70% of everything there is to know about Java?" Unlikely, for sure, and how would you quantify such a thing, whatever the case? Respectfully, it seems like meaningless data.

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José Coelho

I see a lot of people don't like the percentages 😄.
It's definetily something to work on for the next releases.

Thanks a lot for the feedback

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Toan Nguyen

When does the next release will be public pro? :D

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BEGRAFX • Edited

It isn't that we dislike them, can you tell me, when you say, "Java, 70%", what does that mean to you? What are you saying? Help us understand.

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kHRISl33t

This looks great, nice job!
I know the percentage section looks cool, but as others mentioned it I don't know what 95% percent of scripting skill means. I would prefer to see a bullet-pointed list with a short description under it. :) It would make much more sense!
Keep up and welcome to Hungary ;)

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José Coelho

Personally I like the progress bars but I see a lot of people don't like them 😄

I need to think of an alternative and make it available on the next release, I like your suggestion about the bullet-point list

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tiff

Why is piping in from a JSON file easier to update? It’s still a manual process or am I missing something?

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José Coelho

As @br3wb0n1k mentioned, with the JSON file the data is separated from the code, hence you don't have to search and go through the code to update your personal information.

Also the Json follows standard which is always good 😏

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Eric Breuers

It's a nicer way of managing the content in one place. It also provides a visible data model for expanding on the project (ie. adding a CMS)

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Alaz Tetik

Is there a better way to deal with that? An automation process, for example?

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José Coelho

I actually thought about making a command line tool that would assist you in building your own Json file (so you don't have to know the Json Resume standard). But that's the only "automation" I would add.

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Reynaldo Josué Cano Bárcenas

It's look amazing, I like it very much, I'm going to fork it. Congrats bro.

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José Coelho

Thanks a lot bro 😉

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leob

Man it looks really cool! Bookmarked this and starred it, I wanna try it out.

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José Coelho

Thanks a lot 😉

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José Coelho

Thanks :)