Title doesn't match, it's ripped from the first paragraph which really doesn't encompass the theme of the article. The article is more tips for writing manuscripts in tex without getting sucked down rabbit holes

Recently had to track down and update my resume. When I finally found it I was able to quickly add last few years of updates on the commandline and run xelatex and done. It took much longer to track down the files than to update and ship it off, that is why I like latex. Building latex docs from scratch is incredibly daunting, fortunately there are many templates and often they are mandated for use.