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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • I like Simple Note.

    I’m not sure about real time collab, but I know you can share notes.

    https://simplenote.com/

    They do have a github page. Having to make an account and store notes server side is a big minus, but it is the only one I’ve found to

    1. Not be Google
    2. support all major OS (Lin, Win, Mac, And, ios, and browser)
    3. Not serve ads
    4. Not require self hosting
    5. Not ask for money (beside a donate button)
    6. Not be Google

    Edit.

    Digging into it a bit more. Seems they started in 2008 and were aquired by Automattic, in 2013. Same people behind WordPress. Oddly enough, Simple Note is not listed in their list of products.

    Simple Note client side is GPL-2.0 The server is proprietary

    They say on their own site, don’t store sensitive data. But that’s good advice for any online service.




  • It looks a lot cleaner now.

    The body text seems too light still, but that might be my phone screen. It should be solid black.

    Only One change from here I would strongly recommend making is the blue “city” text black.

    Treat blue and bold text as your ‘highlighter’, there to help someone quickly navigate to the important sections of the page. City is not important. Your use of varriying font sizes and bullet lists is great for page navigation.

    If I was going to use color, I’d highlight the jobs before the city name/git link.

    The rest is personal taste.

    Personally, I think the blue headers is enough. It might get to too blue if you color job titles as well. You don’t need a separate monochrome version, the dark blue will show as black if it happens to be printed in B&W. You should also test print your resume in B&W. I find easier to spot errors on paper.


    Edits as I spot more little things.

    (Also there’s an extra space in the second skill name - Event Bus)

    (You also have space to make programming languages one line. At first glace I though you had a blank section for “languages”. Could probably just say “programming”, but I’m not in that field so maybe that’s frowned upon?)

    (In education, you have an example line underneath the university name, what is that line for? I would put the degree in that space, not off to the side. That’s technicaly more important that the university it self, but it’s probably “improper form” to list that above the uni name. (or whatever some one snoby would say).

    (One last thing, you don’t really need your full street address. Its unlikely anyone will mail you a response, and its just as likely you’ll have to enter it into the application form anyways. City will suffice.)

    (One last last thing, if you’re going to give yourself titles at the top, you better show them in your expirence section. (I know this is just an example template and I am being incredibly picky) but I don’t see architect anyware in the actual resume. That communicates to me you’re just calling yourself related titles hoping one sticks)


  • This looks good.

    A few unsolicited nit-picky suggestions;

    • I’m not a big fan of mixing colors in a single word. ‘Taky’ might the be the right to describe why. I do like the color blue you used - if you’re going to do it, make it the whole word. The name should also be consitent. Bold and either black or blue, not black and blue.
    • The light blue and light gray body text is difficult to read. Colors should be solid black, or navy blue. Bright and ‘fun’ colors are heard to read for some. Assume they’re colorblind or will print it on a B&W printer with poor contrast.
    • I like to lead with the job title instead of the company. Where you worked is largely irrevelvant compared to what you’ve done at those places. It also makes it easy to combine company, city and years in one line.
    • start with previous jobs (unless education was most recent or more relevant to new job). Typically the order is job > skills > education.
    • Avoid italics they can be unnecessarily diffuclt to read

    Engine Mechanic

    Bob’s Auto | City, ST | 2017-2021


    Education does not need so many details (if relevant to job, include specific courses and projects). Grad date can be omitted to help obfuscate you’re age (a grad from 2024 is probably inexpirenced, while a 1967 grad is going to be retiring soon).

    Two lines is all you need;

    Bob’s University, City, ST

    B.S. Computer Science, minor electrical enginnering


  • I think they are suggesting the abality to reset 2fa for a service if they have access to your email.

    Let’s say your database contains your email service, and bank account without 2fa. Let’s also assume they got acess to your email through a sham site that had you type credentials in and 2fa.

    Hacker gets database.

    They can login into your email and use the recovery code the bank send to your email for “lost my 2fa”. (And delete the mail notifications as they come in, hopefully before you catch on)

    A bank (should) have additional steps such as phone number, or a real recovery key you were supposed to write down, but a random online store or entertainment site will probably will just reset the 2fa and the hacker can go from there.

    Realsisticlly we should be using at least 3 password database files with different master passwords for better security.

    1. Account logins and passwords
    2. TOTP
    3. Any 2fa recovery keys.

    However in practice, that is a pain in the ass and if someome has taken the time to breach your 1 specific database instead of going after easier targets, they probably have all your databases.