When I was looking for a new job after taking few months off (needed to recharge my batteries) I created something called bonkers resume (patent pending). I had that idea in my head for months, but never had time to implement it. Until I did.

I have send that resume in few places, unfortunately no one appreciated its form (as I did, obviously). Thus I'm sharing it on the github, maybe someone will find it somewhat amusing.

It was ported from very messy repo, hopefully no typos were introduced.

Story behind it

Wouldn't be it cool to have like a self-extracting resume written in Ruby? Not until recently I had time to really research the subject, and as it turns out - it's very easy doable thanks to magical __DATA__ constant that Ruby provides (see related stackoverflow question). I don't think it's very well known - but for the task - it does the job pretty damn perfectly.

First revision

Display some promp, grab the pdf file embeded in ruby file after __END__ keyword, write it to disk via File.write, done.

Few revisions later

Compress the pdf file, compress the ruby code responsible for extracting and decompressing the pdf file, decompress and load the compressed first piece of the code, module_eval and let it run, on top of that embed custom meme in jpg format and make sure it's size is divisible by 1337 by padding some zero bytes to it - so curious minds can easily spot it by looking at the seek on the data stream, done.

Running

There is very unsophisticated makefile included that basically glues every part together simply using cat command. GhostScript is required for stripping pdf part - you can comment that out if you want.

make
build/resume.rb