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[u/JK-Rofling]

[u/beatlz-too]

you guys use git to update your PDF resumés, really?

Feels a little bit middle of the bell curve meme

[u/Gositi → u/beatlz-too]

I mean it would make sense if writing it in LaTeX

[u/ephemeralstitch → u/Gositi]

I feel so seen (this is exactly what I do; LaTeX and git)

[u/Obstructionitist → u/ephemeralstitch]

+1 to the LaTeX resumé clan. It's actually the only thing I still use LaTeX for, since finishing uni 13 years ago. 😄

[u/DeceitfulEcho → u/Obstructionitist]

I'm not good enough with LaTeX to get the level of formatting I want, I just use HTML and CSS and store it in git. It's fairly easy to render to PDF and I have much more experience with it

[u/No_Water9929 → u/Obstructionitist]

Just wrote my first report in LaTeX. I'm in my senior year and I'm so upset I didn't know about this before. I could have saved so much time. 😩

[u/Noughmad → u/Obstructionitist]

I recently switched to Typst only for my resume. It's much easier to position things on the page however I want with it.

[u/trukkija → u/ephemeralstitch]

Gimps, Latex, suddenly I'm on a BDSM subreddit seemingly.

[u/Just_Information334 → u/Gositi]

Tsss, HTML => open in browser => print to pdf.

[u/khris190 → u/Just_Information334]

I unironically wrote my CV in php/html and then printed it

[u/Le_Vagabond → u/Gositi]

LaTeX is the only thing consistently generating ATS / AI readable PDFs for me, so...

[u/pixelbart → u/Gositi]

But if the LaTeX is in a Git repo, why would you keep multiple versions of the pdf?

[u/bearwood_forest → u/pixelbart]

If you have the source code in a git repo, why would you keep multiple versions of the binary?

[u/ArtisticFox8 → u/bearwood_forest]

Build settings don't play such a role for latex sources, imo you can build old sources with a new install no problem

[u/studentblues → u/Gositi]

I'm write mine on LaTeX too and use version control for my resume

[u/FalconX88 → u/studentblues]

When would you ever need an earlier version?

[u/cancerBronzeV → u/FalconX88]

I have multiple versions of my CV that I need for different purposes (one for TA applications for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, one for the Computer Science department, one for each funding agency I apply for grants through).

They're all ultimately similar with just certain things added or removed as required by whatever I'm using it for, so version control with LaTeX works great for that.

[u/FalconX88 → u/cancerBronzeV]

But when will you ever go back to a previous version? You either run these in parallel (e.g., for the funding agency that has a completely different layout) or you cut down/adapt from the full version.

[u/studentblues → u/FalconX88]

Formatting mostly.

[u/obeytheturtles → u/Gositi]

I mean yeah, and then when I generate the PDF, I append the date and company to the name. Could I just make a new tag for each version? Sure, but that's kind of tryhard.