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"That's very nice but can you email me a copy in Microsoft Word DOCX format please?"

I’m just about to live this hell. On advice from a friend, my response will be a simple one: no, because it doesn’t exist. It was written in Markdown [0]. Here’s a PDF.

I’m expecting the usual pushback, and will reciprocate. I’ll let you know how it goes.

[0]: https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume/blob/main/resume.md

(Yeah I shamelessly inserted my own résumé.)

I gave up, I now generate my CV in docx from JSON, and convert that to PDF.

Went through this. Gave up and remade it in Word. Practical beats pure sometimes. Tough for us HN types.

Can’t u just insert a screenshot of the of the pdf in a word document?

Not if you want the job. They run the word files through screening software which processes the text.

Pandoc does a good job of generating docx files from markdown

I work for a company that was acquired by Leidos relatively recently. Hello fellow coworker.

Sure thing!

unzip resume.docx; cd resume; dd if=/dev/random of=crap.tax bs=1M count=19;cd ..; zip resume.docx resume

You're going to be sitting there for a while waiting for blocking random to fill 19MB. You want urandom.

These days, blocking random isn't a thing anymore. /dev/random and /dev/urandom just do the same non-blocking operation.

Reply with:

   traceroute cv6.poinsignon.org | pandoc -o whywhywhy-o-why.docx

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