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Iconic icons to showcase your skills

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by: Yuhesh

6 days ago

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Reefersleep

3 days ago

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Am I supposed to read something into the choice that the examples for "light" and "dark" show icons for different entities? E.g Python is dark, Rust is light. (Kidding, but still - why not use the same base icons?)
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tempodox

3 days ago

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<@Reefersleep> What do you mean? I found both Python and Rust in the light and the dark icons.
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Reefersleep

3 days ago

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<@tempodox> In the readme, I only see four examples under each entry, and they are all dissimilar.
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tempodox

3 days ago

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<@Reefersleep> The readme just shows some examples, it's not the complete repo.
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dontTREATonme

3 days ago

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Are people really putting icons in their resumes?
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userbinator

3 days ago

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<@dontTREATonme> Perhaps it's acceptable if you're applying for a UX designer position or similar. Otherwise (as an interviewer), the impression you give will be "all show and no go".
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bapak

3 days ago

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<@dontTREATonme> You know how fast food places have photos on their menus and luxury restaurants' menus have like 40 words in total?
Same applies to entry-level resumes
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vachina

3 days ago

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<@bapak> I think people choose to eat at those places not for the menu.
If you don’t provide enough information in a resume, it is going to the bin.
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layer8

3 days ago

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<@dontTREATonme> Maybe they want to obscure their resumes for LLM-based resume filtering.
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yongjik

3 days ago

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Aren't many of these icons copyrighted? IANAL... but can you re-create someone else's copyrighted logo and then apply MIT license?
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layer8

3 days ago

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<@yongjik> In addition to being trademarked.
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dhruvkb

3 days ago

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I prefer the more simple monochromatic approach used by Simple Icons [1] but that can be too restrictive at times and many icons do not translate to that style. You can still use their brand guidelines and license metadata to avoid infringing copyright.
[1]: https://simpleicons.org
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what

3 days ago

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>A dev-focused library of sleek, bubble-shaped skill icons built for GitHub READMEs
And curiously not one of them is used in the readme.
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keyle

3 days ago

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I thought this was going to be another geoguesser type game where you'd assign skills to certain icons :)
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nickandbro

3 days ago

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This is amazing! But one suggestion, add a vim icon for vim users since you have an apple notes icon.
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ctxc

3 days ago

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<@nickandbro> I can analyse logs on notepad. Not the ++ imposter. Does that count?
(cries in enterprise customers who required me to RDS into a barebones Windows installation to troubleshoot. Of course any other software installation was also blocked by security policies)
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tempodox

3 days ago

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<@nickandbro> There is vim in the light and the dark icons.
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nickandbro

3 days ago

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<@tempodox> Didn’t see that. Thanks!
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