Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorist (Dad’s Know)
I love eating my dog food, and well-tailored is no exception. I used my project extensively today, applying to 25-ish roles while documenting features and fixes, // TODO:’s.
All this is to say, I don’t ship software and call it a day. I enjoy using it and understanding users’ perspectives and insights into what helps them get their shit done. – Me, duh
The most impactful feature will be providing a job experience description text for Workday and yeet it to the clipboard. See, Workday is a bitch, but unfortunately, the boomers still use it. Workday clearly doesn’t dogfood their own shit; it’s a terrible experience. It can’t parse a resume to save its life, and when it does, it gets it fuck-all wrong.
My biggest issue with its parsing is with job descriptions, achievements, and related sections. They’re almost always bullets, right? But no, Workday looks at them, it must be doing OCR, and decides to just fuck off when there is word wrapping. You want a space? New line bitches! So many times, I copied and pasted my bullets and had to first fix all the new newlines and then add manual bullets. So, a series of ✴ ␠ ↓ ← ← ✴ ␠, ugh. It doesn’t help that the text areas aren’t expandable. I found a good workaround for static descriptions: use Paste. Yay for Setapp! I have a folder with my boilerplate texts, and a quick ⌃ ⇪ V gets them in the active text area.
There are other things I need to do
- #70 — fix: regenerate actions don’t update status message or queue count. There is the ability to regenerate sections of the resume after edits, but the status message and queue count don’t reflect the regeneration — it appears as if nothing happened. The user has no idea if it’s going to happen or if it did.
- #73 — feat: add keyboard navigation to job list (space, arrows, etc.). The job list should support full keyboard navigation — arrow keys to move between entries, space to select/deselect, and standard list interaction patterns. It’s silly that I have to click each role and can’t speed run.
And things I really want to try, like #72 — feat: add tailored interview question/answer preparation per job. I’m sorry, I don’t know why I want to work at your company. I haven’t even spoken to anyone. I want to hear first about the challenges the team is tackling and how the team works. I’ll let you know after that. I’m desperate for a job, but you don’t want my enthusiasm coming from that; you should want it after I know what the hell you’re doing. Ask me then, seriously.
All this is to say, I don’t ship software and call it a day. I enjoy using it and understanding users’ perspectives and insights into what helps them get their shit done. Even the little things like making sure the build works cross-platform.
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