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I tried to git my resume once upon a time. It's still something I'd love to finish doing, it just makes sense to have a git repository as a timeline of your life:

https://github.com/ben174/bugben

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My official CV is a page on my site, that I print to PDF if someone asks for it. The page itself is as source-controlled as the rest of the site.

I do the same by having my resume in latex which I’ve checked in to git. Been meaning to write a GH action to generate the pdf artifact automatically.

I've decided to migrate my CV to Markdown instead -- pandoc can dump to LaTeX, PDF, you name it.

I eventually settled on LaTeX - although I considered dropping all the way down to groff/troff and having TeX be an intermediate step in the process.

Custom LaTeX classes made this more trouble than I was willing to deal with, so I decided to not pursue it further. I suspect Markdown might have similar challenges dealing with this, although given that the "verbose mode" is just HTML, I might be able to make it work.[1]

The print media type has been around for eons, but the @page rules don't support everything I need and are generally absent in WebKit browsers.

[1]: https://github.com/chrisfinazzo/resume

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