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> spends more time code-golfing than implementing practical solutions.

Code golfing is a too-frequent requirement for interviews.

Many companies seem happy to miss out on the senior developers who avoid interview requirements to write code to do a fiddly string manipulation test within 2 minutes.

>Regardless of whether it's plain HTML on a CDN or a hectic fully 3d WebGL demo, a senior dev should have a domain with a https secured connection expressly for showing that they can in fact deploy and maintain a production instance.

I just don't think this really tells you anything meaningful. At least not with any certainty. I can setup a site on GitHub pages and push to main and that's all I need to do. Virtually no skill is needed to even do this.

> Like a lot of the other comments here, a LaTeX resume signals to me that the applicant probably spends more time code-golfing than implementing practical solutions.

Do you usually decompile pdfs to find traces of LaTeX to fuel your meaningless spite?

I have a word document I can email to people, and I don’t need to prove I’m something with a more elaborate setup.

Why? LaTeX is one of the most useful programming languages to know these days.

Which should be obvious from the fact that there's so many companies seeking out LaTeX experts. Oh wait...