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To add another anecdote, I thought I was the only one who thought drivers have gotten worse in the Bay Area over the past few years. The frequency of some driver not paying attention or not following the rules of the road and blowing through stop signs and red lights or abruptly turning into my path without a signal has been increasing, as a driver, cyclist, and pedestrian. Stay safe out there, especially during the winter months.

I'm also hoping the A&B Acoustic II video is similar to the Acoustic I video; the first Acoustic concert video also drew me to go in person.

Side note, Lane 8 experimented with phone-less concerts that went well enough that he does that for his tours now, even naming his new record label "This Never Happened". My friends and I joke that it started with a Mixmag set where a crowd member in the front kept recording video and flash photos, whereas Lane 8 is usually very much enveloped in the music he's playing (https://youtu.be/sWa7GdYiYUQ?t=15m2s).

I've enjoyed his phone-less concerts a lot - it's just tape over the camera, so you can send/receive a quick message if needed, and step off to the back or side if you need to use it longer.

Amazing work! That was incredibly fast (2013 MBA 13" 1.7 GHz i7, Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB, Chrome 59).

Yes, they sent hoodies on premiere night to the first 509 people that reached the end sign-up page. Very cool of the marketing team and everyone involved.

I'm enjoying this a lot. The explanations are straightforward and the writing and animation style is entertaining. I'm liking the website parodies and the puns in the alt texts. I'm learning new things and the linked resources are good for going in-depth. I'd probably pay for advanced lessons in this style. I'll be recommending to friends!

My go-to resource for practicing is http://leetcode.com. There are a lot of questions ranging from easy to hard and an online judge to check your solution by running test cases. If I remember right, there's also a discussions section. They hit a lot of classic interview questions that help you prepare for those questions that wrap those classic problems in obscurity.

For a refresher on algorithms and data structures, I also like the Harvard CS50 videos up on YouTube. They walk through sorting algorithms and cover the bases of various data structures.

The Nature article that PopSci links to goes way more in depth and is a great read: http://www.nature.com/news/nuclear-power-desperately-seeking.... Also brings up discussion of the need of much more powerful energy sources (potentially nuclear) for proposed human space exploration missions.

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This is great! I like being able to see so many different Utilities and DevOps tools being used. But it seems like many of the top stacks don't mention the application frameworks or languages that they're using. Why might that be the case?

LeetCode has a great collection of problems that you can practice with and test your solution in the browser (https://oj.leetcode.com/). The discussion sections were helpful as well.

GeeksforGeeks also has a collection of problems and analyses (http://geeksforgeeks.org/fundamentals-of-algorithms/).

So after refreshing yourself on the fundamentals, practice, practice, practice. Hope this helps!

Wanted to update you that all resumes on private URLs should now be printable. Thanks again for the request!

Thanks! I'll take these all into consideration towards working on a better flow for this

Thanks for the reply! Reordering in the content form is only meant for reordering schools within the education section, reordering employment positions within the employment section, etc. Reordering entire sections can actually be accomplished in the resume customizer, where they can be moved up and down, or to diferent columns entirely.

A few other users have mentioned the same difficulty, so I now recognize that it is a point of confusion due to a lack of guidance or clarity in the UI. I will be working on ways to reduce this confusion, and certainly the documenting of your experience will help with improving this part of the UI.

Resumes are becoming less relevant than they used to be in some fields, but many other people still need them. Take career fairs for example - you still need to bring a hard copy resume to a career fair. Sure the need might be diminished, but the need still exists.

Yes, I think it's a no brainer. I'll put it up on the board!

Thanks for the great information. I've caught some odd behavior in the logs just like this and other users have reported it as well. I'm attempting to recreate and fix this right now as it's causing a lot of trouble. I'm sorry for the difficulty it's caused and I'll let you know when a fix is pushed!

Side note, I didn't manage to integrate bug reporting in time (even though I really should have because there are a couple of good, easy options). For the time being, I can give support via contact@creddle.io!

Thanks! Creddle is not open source and does not have an open API at the moment. I do have ideas on some portions of Creddle that might be a good opportunity to open source in the future. I would need to separate it and package it up properly. But more importantly, I'd want to build the team up so that we'd be able to give enough attention to whatever open source projects might spin off Creddle. I don't want to release an open source project that is poorly supported because I don't have enough time or help.

I think the same goes for an open API - a poorly supported API can be very frustrating to use. If Creddle and the team continue to grow, I think that these two things would come naturally.

So Creddle doesn't natively export PDFs, but rather relies on the browser to print the page as a PDF. At the very least, the site exports the resume to static HTML during this process in order to strip away unneccessary attributes and elements before printing.

It's a short-term solution. If I can recall correctly, I tried both wkhtmltopdf and PhantomJS and was able to succesfully export maybe 60-70% of resumes properly. But I ran into numerous differences with fonts and spacing that sometimes caused weird page or section breaks. I ended up scrapping that method in favor of working on DOCX exporting, because at least there was some method of printing a PDF, even if it was a workaround.

I do want to go back and re-explore PDF exporting, but other requests are taking priority at the moment. I do have guided help on printing as a PDF for a few browsers and OSs in the "Help" section.

That's cool! I'll check it out. I've had one or two other standard themes suggested to me, and I think it could be another killer feature to help make these easier to create.

Thanks! LinkedIn importing is done within the app, which is also why some users were running into issues with it yesterday - so many unique profiles to import (: I've made a few patches yesterday, looking to make some more today.

DOCX exporting is available right now but it's still very limited. A lot of users have reported issues with it today. But a big goal of mine for this month is to improve DOCX exporting to the point where it works for ~95% of resumes built on the site.

I did something stupid with the timezones and fixed it this morning. I'll be pushing a patch out with a few other fixes very soon.

Thanks for the great feedback! Some other users mentioned confusion about "Done Reordering" as well so I'm looking into ways to make that easier to find. I like the idea for changing the color of the left side menu.

Additional sections are in the pipeline behind bug fixes and improving DOCX support.

I agree with pressing ENTER to add the skill and I believe it can use the same mechanism as is currently being used for capturing TAB. I'll look into adding that soon.

Lastly, versioned resumes are a killer feature requested by a few others that I'm hoping to add in the future.

Great stuff, I'll be sure to let you know!

Thanks, I'm hoping to make a big push on DOCX exporting this month. This bit of information will help with that goal. It works only some of the time, but I hope it's enough to help some people who must export to DOCX even in its early stages.

Of course, thanks so much for documenting your first experience so well. If a UI causes a confusing state for the user, there's work to be done to improve it.

By moving sections up/down, do you mean reordering the "employment" section above the "education" section? Were you able to reorder schools or employment positions?

Lastly, what browser/OS are you using? I've noticed drag and drop act funky in some browser/OS combinations.

Yes, so I think that a resume builder that can't export to PDF or DOCX isn't going to last long for this exact reason. That's why I added and opened up the DOCX exporter even though it's still missing a lot of functionality. My hope is that something is better than nothing and a big goal of mine is to improve DOCX exporting over the next month.

I'm not too knowledgeable on the DOC format other than it's a binary format and it's much harder to export to (AFAIK Google Docs can't even export to DOC).

The best workaround I can offer is to export to DOCX, open in Microsoft Word, then save as a DOC. If the DOCX exporting is misbehaving, sit tight, it'll improve slowly but surely.

Thanks for letting me know! I'm investigating this one along with a few others everyone has found (: I'll touch base with you here or via email soon.

The RIT reddit community was very helpful and supportive during beta testing. Glad to help bump up RIT's presence!

The landing page will load fine on mobile, but resumes will not and I wanted to make it clear from the landing page that rendering requires enough screen space.

Creddle relies heavily on the browser for positioning sections and calculating font sizes. The work required to get rendering working on mobile isn't trivial and it's not a priority since most people would prefer to type up a resume on a computer.

That being said, there's nothing to say that responsive resumes can't be done. In fact, Creddle resumes are built in Bootstrap with this in mind. Resumes would still be designed on desktop, but exported to be viewed on mobile. I've just found while 80% of resumes might look okay condensed to a single column view on a phone, the last 20% would need some extra formatting decisions specific to mobile to be made by the user, which means designing and building a UI for that as well, so I scrapped it for the time being.

But mobile resumes have been requested by people before and I think it can be done, it's just not a priority compared to other requests.