I love JSON Resume. I even built a project leveraging it!

My blog: https://brendonbody.blog

Just a basic Jekyll template. I have had a 2 year break and recently got back into it. In that time I also forgot to renew my old .com domain and had it taken over.

Have had a few posts that previously got attention on Hacker News.

This looks great! I wish I found this at the start of the year. I have been building something similar closed source.

I think it highly depends what kind of company you are looking for, FAANG? Tech startup? Finance? Average company?

To more directly answer your question: 1. Like you said, a recruiter spending 5 seconds on your resume might not understand and move on. However in an interview your passion for this project will be an asset.

2. How self driven are you? Can you spend X hours on something you find boring?

This is something I was wondering as well. I am targeting FAANG and similar companies, what projects would be suitable for such orgs?

I try to stick to one main project (https://issueembed.dev/) but do allow myself to indulge in one or two other ones when I need a break.

I also try to have my environment setup automated and some level of testing so that if I do switch between projects, I am not wasting time on regression or environment setup. This may be best practice but it is very easy to not bother with in a side project.

It used to be a free for all and I'd have a lot of different projects working on at different stages but I'd rarely finish anything or get it to a stage I was happy with. I now just track any other ideas I have in a Trello board and look at it occasionally to get inspiration.

Before people start posting various programmer falsehood articles, here is a compilation: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Hey HN creator of Issue Embed here, this is my lockdown project.

I wanted a tool to collect bugs on my websites but every other tool I could find would either want me to use their issue tracking platform or was too expensive. I just needed something simple for small websites, so I could receive issues straight into my GitHub Issues. I am able to use the issues in my current workflows. I scratched my own itch then a few friends asked to be able to use it too.

So here we are today, Issue Embed is on the GitHub Marketplace. I am launching a free plan. Any feedback is welcome.

Hi,

Congratulations with your launch.

Question: must an end user (web site visitor) do a (Github or other) login? Or can they simply leave a comment?

Hey thank you very much. No login needed for submitting an issue. However follow up is handled differently:

Public repos: the reporter is given the link on successful submission, so to communicate further a GitHub account is required

Private repos: the reporter needs to supply an email (not shared with repo) which will be held by Issue Embed and handle communication from the issue to email (and visa-versa)

You can try a demo here: https://issueembed.dev/

Edit: formatting

I gave the reporting a try, and I like the flow in the demo (which is for a Public repo); easy to use.

For a private repo, I would probably also want people to be able to leave anonymous replies (to get 'as much feedback as possible'), but that's just my n=1 opinion.

Good luck.

Thanks for the feedback, I have been thinking of whether making email optional or allowing the admin to not show it. Your feedback is a noted data point, thank you!

My favorite is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797391, it is a reply to a story about a time traveler coming back warning us about Bitcoin.

I have lost too much time to this, thank you.

I lived in Vanuatu for a couple of months working, I used to have kava once a week. I found it to be a lot better than alcohol at helping me wind down from work, got used to the taste after a little bit.