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For me this is the case as well if I know what I'm drawing. If I need to find a way to 'put things on paper', I'd rather have some interactive options, preferably speedy ones ;)

Logo - though nice - is too limited for my needs.

If anyone wants to use logo, you can 'import turtle' in Python and start right away ;)

See https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/turtle.html

Thanks for the pointer, I'm looking for something a bit more interactive though. I might run a few tests to see how quick it responds.

Ideally in the program I'm looking for I can perform editing operations on the image/drawing/diagram with a few key-strokes.

This looks interesting. Maybe with some effort I can manage to couple the commands in a logical manner to a few keystrokes / chords. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm looking for something that is more interactive though. Ideally it should be like a love child of MS visio / LibreOffice Draw and vim ;)

If you like this, be sure to check out Qubes OS[1], which uses Whonix as a VM to route all traffic over Tor.

[1]: http://www.qubes-os.org/

The Choo framework looks promising! https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo

Came across:

- https://bitbucket.org/jdubray/star-javascript

- https://github.com/mozilla/reflex

Depending on the type of UI, you could also give Kivy a try. https://kivy.org/

It's python based, and really easy to get going. It does have it's quirks, but overall I found it a joy to use.

Wrt optimus, have you tried bumblebee?

http://bumblebee-project.org/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee

Another example of steganography can be found in songs by Aphex Twin, e.g. Windowlicker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowlicker)

I believe all their good intentions and I do hope they succeed. But for me it's too early to tell whether their business model will hold. If they build up a sufficiently large user base, but fail to monetize it and sell the company to e.g. Microsoft or Facebook, then I doubt how much of their original privacy / openness remains.

Another thing that I wonder about: Does being Swiss-based give them a privacy advantage?

This is great advice for me in general. I'd wish overthinking was limited to my resume :)

My first reaction would be: This looks like a SEO hack "back in the 'ol days", where you would include relevant keywords with the same background color in your webpage :)

As others have commented, I guess it's a good idea to provide context of skills and competencies by describing your previous positions. Maybe a separate list for "skills" would be an option as well.

I came across some sites that required MS Word, which I still find weird, as extracting text from a PDF shouldn't be too hard as well.

That's a nice approach. Will copy :)

Thanks for sharing your insights. Tailoring the executive summary for the job opening seems like a good idea. I guess I could treat movement from cover letter to summary to the rest of the resume as a conversion process, convincing the reader to invite me for an interview :)

That sounds like good advice. It's also how I feel about software development in general. The tools are a means to an end. Control of the process/project is often much more of a challenge. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing. My current take on setting up my skills and experiences is to put them in context of my previous positions. Would that work for an ATS? (For a human, I'll probably highlight the words somehow)

Thanks for sharing your insights and resume. It's really refreshing to see you describe your work in previous positions in such a clear and meaningful way.

I guess the next step is to write a blog post to assimilate everything I learned today about setting up a 'dev' resume.

This is a great resource for getting to know the different types of people that look at your resume and their perspectives. Thanks!

This seems to be a common theme across answers. I think I'll combine my previous positions with skills/tools/experience/responsibilities/etc. Thanks.

That might work if you got referred to the company, of if you talk directly to the person who you'll work for. My experience is that HR essentially treats your resume as a checklist, like a first filter.

That's actually a clear distinction. How did you separate the technology (programming languages, tooling) from the practices (TDD, agile)?

Thanks for this. My approach would be to phone the company directly, and have a chat with HR or the person responsible for the job opening. I believe that'll give me a first advantage over others and a bigger chance to get a foot in the door. After the phone call I'll send him/her an email which functions as my cover letter with resume in PDF attached.

Based on your and the other comments, I think a list of skills is 'required', but might be meaningless without context (as in, where did you apply this)

Focusing on the business value is great advice!

I do think that this would be especially beneficial once you've passed the first screening. I might be wrong here, but I don't think most HR people take business value into account as it is not in the 'official' job description.

In the experience part of my resume I provide a reverse chronological list of jobs, with bullets that explain my responsibilities and achievements.

Thanks for your suggestion on planning and leading, those are easy to forget (as is elicitation of requirements I guess)

Wouldn't mixing tech/skills with job positions make it more confusing?

The summary of qualifications approach sounds really nice. I guess this could also be 'tailored' to fit the job your applying for. Thanks!

I'd say it's really easy to create a form layout using the kv-language (which is yaml based and hooks into Python classes)

If you want to use somethimg else than the default theme however, you might need to do some extra work. As someone else commented, there is a material design theme, haven't used that myself though.

Unfortunately I have other experiences, mainly not getting any response at all on the irc chan.

Will try again though, I should probably also be more responsive myself to questions of others.

I've been using Kivy for a few months now. From my experience it's a great language/platform to develop proof of concepts and prototypes.

Main drawbacks: - Community size - It's missing some general styling capabilities

Because everything is in Python, it's really easy to get started. Give it a go!