jobless 1.1.0 → 1.2.0

package/README.md

@@ -4,63 +4,86 @@
 npx jobless
 ```
 
-A terminal resume for a broken job market. LinkedIn is a content farm with a jobs tab. Applications take 30 minutes. The no takes 400ms. Recruiters book the call so they have something to cancel. I still do not know their coffee, their mug, or their star sign.
+A terminal resume for **Yonas Alem**, senior software engineer. Remote. Production systems across payments, gaming, ecommerce, and AWS.
 
-## The market
+The joke is optional. The work is the point.
 
-### I do not know their coffee, their mug, or their stars
+## What you get in 10 seconds
 
-The job posting said TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and "excellent communication." The actual exam is telepathy. What is on the recruiter's mind at 10:02am. Oat milk or "just black, I ship." What color is the mug. Company merch that says world-class talent, or the chipped navy one from a 2019 conference that still has a lipstick ghost. What is their star sign. A Virgo who will reject you for a missing Oxford comma. A Gemini who double-booked you with someone named also-Yonas. A Scorpio who already decided during the handshake.
+```
+Yonas Alem
+Senior Software Engineer
+Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  ·  Open to remote senior roles
 
-I can trace a silent cron death across 17 processes. I cannot see into their mug. Apparently that was the seniority gap. Next round I will bring a natal chart, a color swatch, and a cortado. Or we could talk about the actual system.
+5+ years in production   35% infra cost cut
+~30% performance gain    3B+ ETB payment volume
 
-### I applied for 30 minutes. The bot needed 400ms
+PROOF
+The deploy that killed 17 cron jobs
+• Recurring Amazon sync jobs silently stopped after every deploy.
+• Traced it through BullMQ, ioredis, Node, and Railway.
+• Then added explicit shutdown handling across 17 cron processes.
 
-The modern application is unpaid data entry with extra steps. Upload the PDF. Then type the PDF into twelve boxes the parser already filled wrong. Then salary in USD, GBP, and emotional damage. Then a culture quiz written by someone who has never been in the culture. Then "why this company?" as if Greenhouse is going to light a candle and read it.
+h hire me   ·   1 proof   ·   5 rant   ·   q quit
+```
 
-Submit. Rejected in 400ms. Sometimes the no arrives before the confirmation. Five years in production, $100K pulled out of infra, payment rails that moved billions — filtered out because I did not write "synergy" enough times. Cool product. Would not ship it.
+```bash
+npx jobless hire
+npx jobless work
+npx jobless rant
+```
 
-### They booked the call so they had something to cancel
+## Hire me
 
-Favorite genre of fiction: the recruiter calendar invite. "Loved your profile. Thursday 10am?" I clear the morning. I make tea. I put on a shirt with buttons. 9:58am: "we've decided to move forward with other candidates." Which other candidates. The ones you have not scheduled yet?
+- Email: [yonalem21@gmail.com](mailto:yonalem21@gmail.com?subject=npx%20jobless%20%E2%80%94%20Yonas%20Alem)
+- Site: [yonasalem.vercel.app](https://yonasalem.vercel.app)
+- GitHub: [github.com/Yonas21](https://github.com/Yonas21)
+- LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/yonasalem21](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonasalem21/)
+- Resume: [PDF](https://yonasalem.vercel.app/assets/resume.pdf)
 
-If ghosting is the process, skip the theater. I debug silent failures for a living. Yours is not that silent.
+In the CLI, press **`h`**.
 
-### LinkedIn: 40% more thought leadership, 0% more jobs
+## Proof
 
-LinkedIn used to be a jobs board that accidentally had a feed. Now it is a feed that accidentally has jobs. Everyone is humbled. Everyone is announcing. Everyone is a thought leader on a Tuesday. The algorithm loves a carousel called "10 habits of senior engineers" from someone who has never been on-call. It does not love the person who actually kept production up.
+- Cut infrastructure cost ~35% (~$100K / year)
+- Improved platform performance ~30%
+- Payment rails that handled **3B+ ETB**
+- Diagnosed sync jobs that died after every deploy; fixed shutdown across **17 cron processes**
+- Amazon SP-API / Ads, PostgreSQL, Node.js, BullMQ, Redis, React, AWS
 
-I did not open this app to like your new chapter. I opened it because I can build the thing you are posting about.
+Source: [github.com/Yonas21/jobless](https://github.com/Yonas21/jobless)
 
-```bash
-npx jobless rant
-```
+## The market
 
-## Yonas Alem
+Dessert. Press `5` or run `npx jobless rant`.
 
-Senior Software Engineer in Addis Ababa. Open to remote senior roles.
+### I do not know their coffee, their mug, or their stars
 
-5+ years in production · 35% infra cost cut · ~30% performance gain · 3B+ ETB payment volume
+The job posting said TypeScript. The actual exam is telepathy. Oat milk or "just black, I ship." Navy mug or emotional-support Stanley. Virgo, Gemini, or Scorpio. I can trace a silent cron death across 17 processes. I cannot see into their mug.
 
-- Site: [yonasalem.vercel.app](https://yonasalem.vercel.app)
-- GitHub: [github.com/Yonas21](https://github.com/Yonas21)
-- LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/yonasalem21](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonasalem21/)
-- Email: yonalem21@gmail.com
+### I applied for 30 minutes. The bot needed 400ms
 
-```bash
-npx jobless hire
-```
+Upload the PDF. Type the PDF. Culture quiz. Submit. Rejected in 400ms. Five years in production, filtered out for missing "synergy." Cool product. Would not ship it.
+
+### They booked the call so they had something to cancel
+
+"Loved your profile. Thursday 10am?" Shirt with buttons. 9:58am: other candidates. I debug silent failures for a living. Yours is not that silent.
+
+### LinkedIn: 40% more thought leadership, 0% more jobs
+
+A jobs board that accidentally had a feed. Now a feed that accidentally has jobs.
 
 ## Commands
 
 ```bash
-npx jobless              # interactive
-npx jobless rant         # the market, with jokes
-npx jobless who          # who I am
-npx jobless looking      # roles I want
-npx jobless work         # proof of work
-npx jobless skills       # the stack
-npx jobless hire         # links + email
+npx jobless              # resume first, rant if you ask
+npx jobless work         # proof
+npx jobless hire         # email + links
+npx jobless who          # bio
+npx jobless looking      # roles
+npx jobless skills       # stack
+npx jobless rant         # the market
+npx jobless --joke       # ATS rejection intro
 ```
 
 Zero dependencies. Node 18+.

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "jobless",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
-  "description": "npx jobless — I still do not know the recruiter's coffee, mug color, or star sign. A terminal resume for a broken job market.",
+  "version": "1.2.0",
+  "description": "npx jobless — senior software engineer terminal resume. Production systems, not carousels.",
   "keywords": [
     "cli",
     "npx",
@@ -22,8 +22,13 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://yonasalem.vercel.app",
   "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/Yonas21/jobless/issues",
     "email": "yonalem21@gmail.com"
   },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/Yonas21/jobless.git"
+  },
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {
     "jobless": "bin/jobless.js"

package/src/cli.js

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
   printLooking,
   printMenu,
   printRant,
+  printSignature,
   printSkills,
   printWho,
   printWork,
@@ -38,9 +39,11 @@ const COMMANDS = {
   rant: printRant,
   market: printRant,
   work: printWork,
+  proof: printWork,
   experience: printWork,
   skills: printSkills,
   hire: printHire,
+  h: printHire,
   links: printHire,
   contact: printHire,
 };
@@ -54,6 +57,7 @@ const resolveCommand = (input) => {
   const value = String(input).trim().toLowerCase();
   if (!value) return null;
   if (value === 'q' || value === 'quit' || value === 'exit') return 'quit';
+  if (value === 'help') return 'help';
   const fromMenu = menu.find((item) => item.key === value || item.command === value);
   if (fromMenu) return fromMenu.command;
   if (COMMANDS[value]) return value;
@@ -67,10 +71,11 @@ const runCommand = (command) => {
   return true;
 };
 
-const interactive = async ({ animate }) => {
+const interactive = async ({ joke }) => {
   if (process.stdout.isTTY) clear();
   printHeader();
-  if (animate) {
+  printSignature();
+  if (joke) {
     blank();
     await printBoot();
   }
@@ -84,12 +89,19 @@ const interactive = async ({ animate }) => {
       const command = resolveCommand(answer);
 
       if (!command) {
-        print(`  ${dim('unknown. try 1–6 or q.')}`);
+        print(`  ${dim('unknown. try 1–5, h to hire, or q.')}`);
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (command === 'help') {
+        if (process.stdout.isTTY) clear();
+        printHelp();
+        printMenu();
         continue;
       }
       if (command === 'quit') {
         blank();
         print(dim('  still jobless. still shipping.'));
+        print(dim('  yonalem21@gmail.com'));
         blank();
         break;
       }
@@ -114,7 +126,7 @@ const parse = (argv) => {
 export const run = async (argv = []) => {
   const { flags, rest } = parse(argv);
 
-  if (flags.has('-h') || flags.has('--help')) {
+  if (flags.has('-h') || flags.has('--help') || rest[0] === 'help') {
     printHelp();
     return;
   }
@@ -129,22 +141,21 @@ export const run = async (argv = []) => {
     return;
   }
 
-  const animate = process.stdout.isTTY && !flags.has('--no-anim');
+  const joke = flags.has('--joke');
   const command = rest[0] ? resolveCommand(rest[0]) : null;
 
-  if (command && command !== 'quit') {
+  if (command && command !== 'quit' && command !== 'help') {
     printHeader();
     runCommand(command);
     blank();
-    print(dim('  more: npx jobless   or   npx jobless --help'));
+    print(dim('  more: npx jobless   ·   npx jobless hire   ·   npx jobless --help'));
     return;
   }
 
   if (!process.stdout.isTTY) {
     printHeader();
+    printSignature();
     printWho();
-    printLooking();
-    printRant();
     printHire({ copy: false });
     return;
   }
@@ -155,5 +166,5 @@ export const run = async (argv = []) => {
     process.exit(0);
   });
 
-  await interactive({ animate });
+  await interactive({ joke });
 };

package/src/data.js

@@ -9,11 +9,16 @@ export const profile = {
   phone: '+251 936 972 697',
   website: 'https://yonasalem.vercel.app',
   github: 'https://github.com/Yonas21',
+  repo: 'https://github.com/Yonas21/jobless',
   linkedin: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonasalem21/',
   instagram: 'https://www.instagram.com/its_yon_21/',
   resume: 'https://yonasalem.vercel.app/assets/resume.pdf',
 };
 
+export const hireMailto = `mailto:${profile.email}?subject=${encodeURIComponent(
+  'npx jobless — Yonas Alem',
+)}&body=${encodeURIComponent('I ran npx jobless. I want to talk about a role.\n')}`;
+
 export const stats = [
   { value: '5+', label: 'years in production' },
   { value: '35%', label: 'infra cost cut' },
@@ -21,6 +26,16 @@ export const stats = [
   { value: '3B+', label: 'ETB payment volume' },
 ];
 
+export const signature = {
+  title: 'The deploy that killed 17 cron jobs',
+  lines: [
+    'Recurring Amazon sync jobs silently stopped after every deploy.',
+    'Traced it through BullMQ, ioredis, the Node process lifecycle, and the Railway scheduler.',
+    'Then added explicit shutdown handling across 17 cron processes.',
+    'I debug silent production failures. That is the job.',
+  ],
+};
+
 export const about = [
   'I build and fix production systems across payments, gaming, ecommerce, advertising, and government services — from PostgreSQL and backend services through React, AWS, and the last mile of production debugging.',
   'I have cut infrastructure spend by about 35% (roughly $100K a year), improved platform performance around 30%, and integrated payment rails that have handled more than 3 billion ETB in transaction volume.',
@@ -169,12 +184,12 @@ export const quotes = [
 ];
 
 export const menu = [
-  { key: '1', command: 'who', label: 'who I am' },
-  { key: '2', command: 'looking', label: 'roles I want' },
-  { key: '3', command: 'rant', label: 'the market, with jokes' },
-  { key: '4', command: 'work', label: 'proof of work' },
-  { key: '5', command: 'skills', label: 'the stack' },
-  { key: '6', command: 'hire', label: 'hire me / links' },
+  { key: '1', command: 'work', label: 'proof of work' },
+  { key: '2', command: 'who', label: 'who I am' },
+  { key: '3', command: 'looking', label: 'roles I want' },
+  { key: '4', command: 'skills', label: 'the stack' },
+  { key: '5', command: 'rant', label: 'the market, with jokes' },
+  { key: 'h', command: 'hire', label: 'hire me' },
   { key: 'q', command: 'quit', label: 'leave the void' },
 ];
 

package/src/screens.js

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ import {
   about,
   bootLines,
   experience,
+  hireMailto,
   lookingFor,
   menu,
   profile,
   quotes,
   rants,
+  signature,
   skills,
   stats,
   work,
@@ -67,7 +69,26 @@ export const printHeader = () => {
   print(`  ${statLine(stats.slice(2))}`);
   blank();
   print(
-    `  ${link(profile.email, `mailto:${profile.email}`)}${dim('  ·  ')}${link(profile.website, profile.website)}${dim('  ·  ')}${link(profile.github.replace('https://', ''), profile.github)}`,
+    `  ${link(profile.email, hireMailto)}${dim('  ·  ')}${link(profile.website, profile.website)}${dim('  ·  ')}${link(
+      profile.github.replace('https://', ''),
+      profile.github,
+    )}`,
+  );
+};
+
+export const printSignature = () => {
+  blank();
+  section('PROOF');
+  blank();
+  print(`  ${bold(signature.title)}`);
+  blank();
+  for (const line of signature.lines) bullet(line);
+};
+
+export const printHints = () => {
+  blank();
+  print(
+    `  ${bold(green('h'))} hire me   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('1')} proof   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('5')} rant   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('q')} quit`,
   );
 };
 
@@ -84,7 +105,7 @@ export const printBoot = async () => {
     print(`  ${bold(red('RESULT'))}     ${bold('REJECTED')}`);
     print(`  ${dim('reason')}     guessed white mug. it was navy. also a Virgo.`);
     print(`  ${dim('elapsed')}    0.40s  (personal best)`);
-    print(`  ${dim('note')}       the loading bar is the joke. the rejection is documentary.`);
+    print(`  ${dim('note')}       the loading bar is the joke. the work is not.`);
   } finally {
     showCursor();
   }
@@ -135,11 +156,13 @@ export const printRant = () => {
   }
   blank();
   print(`  ${dim('Still here? Congrats. You already outperformed the ATS.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('If you want the work, press')} ${bold('1')}${dim('. If you want to hire, press')} ${bold(green('h'))}${dim('.')}`);
 };
 
 export const printWork = () => {
+  printSignature();
   blank();
-  section('PROOF');
+  print(`  ${dim('experience')}`);
   blank();
   for (const job of experience) {
     print(`  ${bold(job.role)}`);
@@ -182,7 +205,7 @@ export const printHire = ({ copy = true } = {}) => {
   blank();
   print(`  ${dim('Skip the 47-field form. This is the whole application.')}`);
   blank();
-  kv('Email', link(profile.email, `mailto:${profile.email}`));
+  kv('Email', link(profile.email, hireMailto));
   kv('Phone', link(profile.phone, `tel:${profile.phone.replace(/\s+/g, '')}`));
   kv('Site', link(profile.website, profile.website));
   kv('GitHub', link(profile.github, profile.github));
@@ -192,8 +215,9 @@ export const printHire = ({ copy = true } = {}) => {
   if (copy && process.stdout.isTTY && copyToClipboard(profile.email)) {
     print(`  ${green('copied')} ${profile.email} ${dim('to clipboard')}`);
   }
+  print(`  ${dim('or')} ${link('open a prefilled email', hireMailto)}`);
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('If you got this far, you already did more than most ATS pipelines.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('Remote senior / full-stack. I can start a conversation this week.')}`);
 };
 
 export const printMenu = () => {
@@ -204,32 +228,30 @@ export const printMenu = () => {
       { title: 'open a door' },
     ),
   );
+  printHints();
   blank();
 };
 
 export const printHelp = () => {
   print(banner());
   blank();
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless')}              interactive`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless')}              interactive resume`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless work')}         proof of work`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless hire')}         email + links`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless who')}          bio`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless looking')}      roles`);
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless rant')}         the market`);
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless work')}         experience`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless skills')}       stack`);
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless hire')}         links + email`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless rant')}         the market`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --joke')}       ATS rejection intro`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --json')}       machine readable`);
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --no-anim')}    skip the ATS joke`);
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('Built because the feed would not shut up.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('In the prompt:')} ${bold(green('h'))} ${dim('hires,')} ${bold('1')} ${dim('is proof,')} ${bold('q')} ${dim('quits.')}`);
   print(`  ${dim(profile.website)}`);
 };
 
 export const printLandingTeaser = () => {
   blank();
-  print(`  ${yellow('LinkedIn is a content farm with a jobs tab. This is the profile.')}`);
-  print(`  ${dim('Applications take 30 minutes. The no takes 400ms.')}`);
-  print(`  ${dim('Recruiters book the call so they have something to cancel.')}`);
-  print(`  ${dim('I still do not know their coffee, their mug, or their star sign.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('The rant is option')} ${bold('5')}${dim('. The work is already on screen.')}`);
 };
 
 export const toJson = () =>
@@ -246,7 +268,9 @@ export const toJson = () =>
         github: profile.github,
         linkedin: profile.linkedin,
         resume: profile.resume,
+        mailto: hireMailto,
       },
+      signature,
       lookingFor,
       rants,
       stats,

package/src/style.js

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export const banner = () => {
   return box(
     [
       bold(brightRed(pad('JOBLESS', max, 'center'))),
-      dim(pad('a terminal resume for a broken job market', max, 'center')),
+      dim(pad('senior engineer. production systems. not a carousel.', max, 'center')),
     ],
     { title: 'npx jobless' },
   );