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I put an interactive cat on my resume and I'm pretty sure it literally got me the job. (https://pkunk.org/resume/ https://pkunk.org/resume/) A little fun goes a
by yobert 5y ago
I put an interactive cat on my resume and I'm pretty sure it literally got me the job. (https://pkunk.org/resume/ https://pkunk.org/resume/) A little fun goes a long way!
- Zababa 5y agoIt's really nice, thank you for sharing it!
- TheRealNGenius 5y agoDoes it move? I tried clicking on it and nothing seemed to happen.
- yobert 5y agoUse the up/down/left/right arrow keys. It's not very fancy. (Mobile not supported either.)
- spicybright 5y agoAww, firefox makes the page scroll with arrow keys :( I'm not sure if I would override that though, maybe have alternate controls like "wasd" or something similar. P.S. I looked at the code for the cat and I really like it. Nice and simple.
- yobert 5y agoThank you! I made a library out of it (http://yobert.github.io/catify/ http://yobert.github.io/catify/) if you want to add it to something of yours!
- spicybright 5y agoThat's so cute!!!!! I think I'll add it to my personal site, ty :D
- frabjoused 5y agoBravo! You get a star.
- BuildTheRobots 5y agoesheep inspired at all? I was amused when it dropped from the top and I played around resizing the window to make it fall. Casually dropping "use arrow keys to move cat!" under hobby programming was a lovely way of revealing that and rewarding the reader.
- yobert 5y agoThanks! I've never heard of esheep, but have been inspired by some desktop hacks over the years. (Remember that roach program for windows?) The cat animation was lifted from an old DOS game called Alleycat that I loved.
- BuildTheRobots 5y agoWasn't aware of the roach program or Alleycat so thanks for the pointers. I can see why you were keen to liberate the cat now I've seen it :) My esheep query seems to have been taken extremely negatively. Rereading it a day later, it does seem to be dripping with snark, though that really wasn't how it was intended. I remember eSheep fondly as a kid, so it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the cat - along with more fondness for someone who'd brought similar to the web. I think some of my early forays into programming were directly attributable to me trying to surreptitiously inflict it on friends and family.
- mikesabbagh 5y agoyour cat does not go up!!! what should I do?
- doubled112 5y agoI gave it a shot. The cat doesn't fly. The cat jumps. Place it under a line of text and jump up to it. At least it works on my machine.
- yobert 5y agoYeah you have to work your way up the text to find your way back to the top :D
- chabons 5y agoReminds me of Felix the desktop cat from the Win 2000 era, which would walk around on your windows.
- jp_sc 5y agoReminds me to the old MSDOS "Alley Cat" game: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alley_Cat_1984 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alley_Cat_1984
- dahart 5y agoThat was my first thought, the theme song came rushing right back. I found it on YouTube https://youtu.be/uZDG4dlU5uY https://youtu.be/uZDG4dlU5uY but I think my PCjr was slower than the machine that recorded this because the song was much more sparse back when I played the game.
- yobert 5y agoYup! I fired up DOSBOX and did a screen recording, and then paused it frame by frame so I could trace the pixels in GIMP. :D I adored that game.
- bitwize 5y agoReminds me of Neko, the Mac/Windows desktop toy from the early 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
- atatatat 5y agoThere is an Android Easter Egg game featuring this for those that don't know.
- themodelplumber 5y ago'sudo apt install oneko' still works in lots of Linuxes I think
- justusthane 5y agoThat's fun! Took me a second to realize it walks on top of the text.
- TedHartDavis 5y agoI like your site. It's simple and fun. I also like the way you handle company rebranding with strikethrough :P Might I suggest that you submit it for listing on https://1mb.club https://1mb.club? Looking at Pingdom's tools, it judges your site at 48K: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5f15f825e1000000 https://tools.pingdom.com/#5f15f825e1000000 Either that, or give me permission to list it for you (:
- yobert 5y agoSure! You can list it! Thanks! It is hosted from my house's comcast though, so it might get slow... :D
- FredPret 5y agoIs pkunk a Star Control 2 reference?
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- enceladus_ice 5y agoCool resume, you know what's weird? I saw this post earlier while working and tonight I was randomly looking at an old DOS game compilation video on Youtube. One of the clips was of a pink and blue cat game called Alleycat that I decided to find a longer video of because I liked the style. I came back here because I swore I just saw that cat earlier today and now saw your comment further down to confirm. I've never heard of the game or seen your resume until today, fun coincidence, or my unconscious mind noticed the cat.
- yobert 5y agoThat's super fun. I feel like it's a very specific animation, so it makes sense!