Resume-Project updates

I wrote this post nearly 3 months ago, and it feels like I got 3 years older since then. Strange that I never published it.

Now with a much more profound understanding of AI and much, much better models, the changes I made here would have been done in minutes. I guess. 😅

The Resume-Project: https://github.com/danbruegge/resume

I have never written about it. This is one of my projects that had a low priority in the past and doesn’t get the love it deserves. But eventually, this is one that saves me a lot of work, and I need to adjust only a JSON entry after I’m done with a client.

Changes

Completed ✅

  1. Outputs docx format, besides pdf.
    • I got the question from recruiters a lot if I could provide a docx file instead of a pdf.
    • After a lot of back and forth with some tools, I finally found a suitable solution.
  2. PDF export is working again, now with Puppeteer.
    • wkhtmltopdf got deprecated.
    • It wasn’t installable via Homebrew anymore.
    • Now there is a modern solution where also the PDF looks better; wkhtmltopdf had problems rendering modern CSS.
  3. Update to Next.js v15.5.
  4. Update to Tailwind v4.

Planned 🏗️

Completing the HTML to DOCX conversion is a massive milestone for me. One that I thought would never be done. Because I did not see the use for it AND .docx is a shitty format. 🙃

I should invest more time in it. But if the clients provide long contracts, the need is not so high, so I constantly forget about it.

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