jobless 1.4.0 → 1.6.0

package/src/screens.js

@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
-import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
-
-import { printCompanyReject } from './reject.js';
-
+import { copyToClipboard } from './clip.js';
+import { tweetFromReport } from './fit.js';
+import { letterText } from './reject.js';
+export * from './profile-screens.js';
+export * from './lint-screens.js';
 import {
-  about,
+  cases,
+  claims,
   experience,
   hireMailto,
   lookingFor,
   menu,
+  mentorship,
   profile,
-  quotes,
   rants,
   signature,
   skills,
   stats,
-  work,
 } from './data.js';
 import {
   banner,
@@ -26,106 +27,26 @@ import {
   dim,
   green,
   inner,
-  kv,
-  link,
-  magenta,
   pad,
   print,
-  red,
   section,
   wrap,
   yellow,
 } from './style.js';
 
-const copyToClipboard = (text) => {
-  try {
-    if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
-      execFileSync('pbcopy', { input: text });
-      return true;
-    }
-    if (process.platform === 'win32') {
-      execFileSync('clip', { input: text, windowsHide: true });
-      return true;
-    }
-    execFileSync('xclip', ['-selection', 'clipboard'], { input: text });
-    return true;
-  } catch {
-    return false;
-  }
-};
-
-export const printHeader = () => {
-  print(banner());
-  blank();
-  print(`  ${bold(cyan(profile.name))}`);
-  print(`  ${profile.title}`);
-  print(`  ${dim(`${profile.location}  ·  ${profile.availability}`)}`);
-  blank();
-  const statLine = (items) =>
-    items.map((item) => `${bold(green(item.value))} ${dim(item.label)}`).join(dim('   '));
-  print(`  ${statLine(stats.slice(0, 2))}`);
-  print(`  ${statLine(stats.slice(2))}`);
-  blank();
-  print(
-    `  ${link(profile.email, hireMailto)}${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   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('1')} proof   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('l')} lint a posting   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('q')} quit`,
+    `  ${bold(green('h'))} hire   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('1')} proof   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('l')} lint a posting   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('c')} copy letter   ${dim('·')}   ${bold('q')} quit`,
   );
 };
 
-export const printWho = () => {
-  blank();
-  section('WHO');
-  blank();
-  for (const paragraph of about) {
-    bullet(paragraph);
-    blank();
-  }
-  kv('Now', profile.currently);
-  kv('Study', profile.study);
-  kv('Site', link(profile.website, profile.website));
-};
-
-export const printLooking = () => {
-  blank();
-  section('WHAT I WANT');
-  blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('roles')}`);
-  for (const role of lookingFor.roles) bullet(role, green);
-  blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('setup')}`);
-  for (const item of lookingFor.setup) bullet(item);
-  blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('yes')}`);
-  for (const item of lookingFor.wants) bullet(item);
-  blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('hard no')}`);
-  for (const item of lookingFor.no) bullet(item, yellow);
-};
-
 export const printRant = () => {
   blank();
   section('THE MARKET');
   blank();
   for (const line of wrap(
-    'The feed is thriving. Hiring is a lore page. The recruiter\'s coffee order is a senior requirement.',
+    'A hiring incident report, with coping mechanisms.',
   )) {
     print(`  ${dim(line)}`);
   }
@@ -138,96 +59,29 @@ export const printRant = () => {
   print(`  ${dim('If you want the work, press')} ${bold('1')}${dim('. If you want to hire, press')} ${bold(green('h'))}${dim('.')}`);
 };
 
-export const printLintReport = (report) => {
-  const { findings, source, errors, warnings, letter, ok } = report;
-
-  blank();
-  section('JOBLESS LINT');
-  blank();
-  print(`  ${dim(source)}`);
-  blank();
-
-  if (ok && !findings.length) {
-    print(`  ${green('clean')}  this posting might be a real job.`);
-    blank();
-    print(`  ${dim('If you still want the engineer who wrote the linter:')} ${bold(green('h'))}`);
-    return report;
-  }
-
-  for (const finding of findings) {
-    const tag = finding.level === 'error' ? red('error') : yellow('warn ');
-    print(`  ${tag}  ${finding.message}`);
-    print(`        ${dim(finding.id)}`);
-    blank();
-  }
-
-  printCompanyReject(letter);
-  blank();
-  print(
-    `  ${errors} error${errors === 1 ? '' : 's'}  ${warnings} warning${warnings === 1 ? '' : 's'}  ${dim('·')}  ${dim('hire the person who wrote the compiler:')} ${bold(green('h'))}`,
-  );
-  return report;
-};
-
-export const printWork = () => {
-  printSignature();
+export const printTweet = (report) => {
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('experience')}`);
+  print(tweetFromReport(report));
   blank();
-  for (const job of experience) {
-    print(`  ${bold(job.role)}`);
-    print(`  ${cyan(job.company)}  ${dim(`${job.dates}  ·  ${job.place}`)}`);
-    blank();
-    for (const point of job.points) bullet(point);
-    print(`  ${dim(job.stack.join('  ·  '))}`);
-    blank();
-  }
-  print(`  ${dim('selected work')}`);
-  blank();
-  for (const item of work) {
-    print(`  ${bold(item.title)}  ${dim(item.company)}`);
-    for (const line of wrap(item.blurb)) print(`  ${line}`);
-    blank();
-  }
-  print(`  ${dim('people who were not bots')}`);
-  blank();
-  for (const quote of quotes) {
-    print(`  ${magenta(`"${quote.text}"`)}`);
-    print(`  ${dim(`— ${quote.name}${quote.role ? `, ${quote.role}` : ''}`)}`);
-    blank();
-  }
-};
-
-export const printSkills = () => {
-  blank();
-  section('STACK');
-  blank();
-  for (const group of skills) {
-    print(`  ${bold(group.name)}`);
-    print(`  ${group.items.join(dim('  ·  '))}`);
-    blank();
-  }
+  print(`  ${dim('Copy it, remix it, send it to someone waiting for a reply.')}`);
 };
 
-export const printHire = ({ copy = true } = {}) => {
+export const printWhy = () => {
   blank();
-  section('HIRE ME');
+  section('WHY');
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('Skip the 47-field form. This is the whole application.')}`);
-  blank();
-  kv('Email', link(profile.email, hireMailto));
-  kv('Phone', link(profile.phone, `tel:${profile.phone.replace(/\s+/g, '')}`));
-  kv('Site', link(profile.website, profile.website));
-  kv('GitHub', link(profile.github, profile.github));
-  kv('LinkedIn', link(profile.linkedin, profile.linkedin));
-  kv('Resume', link(profile.resume, profile.resume));
-  blank();
-  if (copy && process.stdout.isTTY && copyToClipboard(profile.email)) {
-    print(`  ${green('copied')} ${profile.email} ${dim('to clipboard')}`);
+  for (const line of [
+    'I got invited to interview and rejected at the same time.',
+    'So I turned the hiring process into an npm package.',
+    'They asked how I handle rejection. Apparently: semantic versioning.',
+    'The second act is a reverse ATS: lint the posting, then reject it yourself.',
+    'The hiring simulator is satire. The engineer behind it is real.',
+    'Try npx jobless lint --demo. Meet me with npx jobless hire.',
+  ]) {
+    bullet(line);
   }
-  print(`  ${dim('or')} ${link('open a prefilled email', hireMailto)}`);
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('Remote senior / full-stack. I can start a conversation this week.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('Hire is')} ${bold(green('h'))}${dim('.')}`);
 };
 
 export const printMenu = () => {
@@ -245,25 +99,49 @@ export const printMenu = () => {
 export const printHelp = () => {
   print(banner());
   blank();
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless')}              reject you, then the resume`);
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint [file]')}  lint a job posting`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless')}              reproduce a hiring race condition`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless share --copy')}  copy a compact anonymous result`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --record')}     repeatable, anonymous, no prompt`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --personalize')} opt in to your local Git name`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --demo')}  reject a fictional posting`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint [file]')}  lint a job posting or jobs/`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --json')}  findings + rejection letter`);
-  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless work')}         proof of work`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --fix')}   unified diff (dry-run)`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --write')} write the rewrite to the file`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --copy')}  copy the company letter`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --rules')} print the rule table`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless lint --format=github')}  CI annotations`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless work')}         three case studies + timeline`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless proof')}        the 17-cron write-up`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless card')}         one-screen hire card`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless hire')}         email + links`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless hire --to=manager')}  hiring-manager subject`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless vcf')}          vCard`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless why')}          why this exists`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless tweet')}        the origin story, ready to share`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless who')}          bio`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless looking')}      roles`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless skills')}       stack`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless rant')}         the market`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --resume')}     skip the rejection`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --seed=42')}    choose a repeatable scenario`);
   print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --json')}       machine readable resume`);
+  print(`  ${bold('npx jobless --no-color')}   plain text output`);
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('In the prompt:')} ${bold(green('h'))} ${dim('hires,')} ${bold('l')} ${dim('lints a posting,')} ${bold('q')} ${dim('quits.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('In the prompt:')} ${bold(green('h'))} ${dim('hires,')} ${bold('l')} ${dim('lints,')} ${bold('c')} ${dim('copies the last result,')} ${bold('q')} ${dim('quits.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('Post the command, not the punchline:')} ${bold('npx jobless')}`);
   print(`  ${dim(profile.website)}`);
 };
 
 export const printLandingTeaser = () => {
   blank();
-  print(`  ${dim('Paste a posting with')} ${bold('l')}${dim('. The rant is')} ${bold('5')}${dim('.')}`);
+  print(`  ${dim('Paste the posting that just rejected you:')} ${bold('l')}${dim('.')}`);
+};
+
+export const copyLetter = (letter) => {
+  const text = letterText(letter);
+  if (!text) return false;
+  return copyToClipboard(text);
 };
 
 export const toJson = () =>
@@ -286,6 +164,9 @@ export const toJson = () =>
       lookingFor,
       rants,
       stats,
+      claims,
+      cases,
+      mentorship,
       experience,
       skills,
     },

package/src/style.js

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export const brightRed = paint('91');
 
 export const width = () => {
   const columns = stdout.columns || 80;
-  return Math.min(Math.max(columns, 56), 86);
+  return Math.min(Math.max(columns, 10), 86);
 };
 
 export const inner = () => width() - 4;
@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@ export const wrap = (text, max = width() - 8) => {
       continue;
     }
 
-    const words = paragraph.split(/\s+/);
+    const words = paragraph.split(/\s+/).flatMap((word) => {
+      const chars = Array.from(word);
+      const chunks = [];
+      for (let i = 0; i < chars.length; i += max) chunks.push(chars.slice(i, i + max).join(''));
+      return chunks;
+    });
     let line = '';
 
     for (const word of words) {
@@ -87,11 +92,13 @@ export const clear = () => {
   if (stdout.isTTY) stdout.write(`${CSI}2J${CSI}H`);
 };
 
-const visibleLength = (text) =>
+const plainText = (text) =>
   String(text)
     .replace(/\x1b\]8;;[^\x07]*\x07/g, '')
     .replace(/\x1b\]8;;\x07/g, '')
-    .replace(/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m/g, '').length;
+    .replace(/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m/g, '');
+
+const visibleLength = (text) => Array.from(plainText(text)).length;
 
 export const pad = (text, size = inner(), align = 'left') => {
   const length = visibleLength(text);
@@ -106,10 +113,11 @@ export const pad = (text, size = inner(), align = 'left') => {
 
 export const box = (lines, { title } = {}) => {
   const max = inner();
-  const topInner = title ? `─ ${title} ${'─'.repeat(Math.max(max - title.length - 3, 0))}` : '─'.repeat(max);
-  const top = dim(`┌${topInner}┐`);
-  const bottom = dim(`└${'─'.repeat(max)}┘`);
-  const body = lines.map((line) => `${dim('│')} ${pad(line, max)} ${dim('│')}`);
+  const label = title ? ` ${title} `.slice(0, max) : '';
+  const top = dim(`┌─${label}${'─'.repeat(max - label.length + 1)}┐`);
+  const bottom = dim(`└${'─'.repeat(max + 2)}┘`);
+  const rows = lines.flatMap((line) => visibleLength(line) > max ? wrap(plainText(line), max) : [line]);
+  const body = rows.map((line) => `${dim('│')} ${pad(line, max)} ${dim('│')}`);
   return [top, ...body, bottom].join('\n');
 };
 

package/src/work-data.js

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+export const experience = [
+  {
+    role: 'Senior Full Stack Engineer',
+    company: 'TPK Synergy Limited',
+    dates: 'Dec 2025 – Present',
+    place: 'Remote',
+    points: [
+      'Amazon seller analytics: marketplace analytics, FBA, finance, PPC, and inventory.',
+      'Diagnosed sync jobs that died after every deploy; shutdown handling across 17 cron processes. See `proof`.',
+      'Amazon SP-API and Ads auth end to end: OAuth, LWA, encrypted credentials.',
+      'UK and EU marketplaces with VAT-aware margins. Moved expensive aggregations into SQL.',
+    ],
+    stack: ['Node.js', 'PostgreSQL', 'BullMQ', 'Redis', 'React', 'Amazon SP-API'],
+  },
+  {
+    role: 'Senior Software Engineer',
+    company: 'Mereb Technologies',
+    dates: 'Apr 2022 – Nov 2025',
+    place: 'Addis Ababa',
+    points: [
+      'Owned the production gaming platform end to end in these domains: loyalty, payouts, fraud, reporting — not the whole company.',
+      '~30% platform performance: indexing, read/write separation, caching, pagination, redesigned status-checking.',
+      '~35% infra cost, about $100K a year: database, cache, and resource optimization. Engineering estimate.',
+      'Reports on ~1M-row datasets: 2 hours to under 30 minutes. Mentored 3 juniors on APIs, debugging, and design.',
+    ],
+    stack: ['PostgreSQL', 'gRPC', 'PHP', 'React', 'AWS', 'Datadog'],
+  },
+  {
+    role: 'Full Stack Developer (Contract)',
+    company: 'Affiliate.com',
+    dates: 'Feb 2023 – Aug 2023',
+    place: 'Remote · alongside Mereb',
+    points: [
+      'Migrated a legacy PHP API to Node.js and tRPC without breaking the React UI.',
+      'Reimplemented legacy SQL in Prisma while both platforms ran in parallel.',
+      'Cut report generation ~40% by moving it onto Google Cloud Storage. ~85% coverage on migrated code.',
+    ],
+    stack: ['Node.js', 'tRPC', 'Prisma', 'React', 'Zod', 'GCS'],
+  },
+  {
+    role: 'Backend Engineer (Contract)',
+    company: 'Autobridge Systems',
+    dates: 'Contract',
+    place: 'Addis Ababa · government constituent platform',
+    points: [
+      'Backend for complaints, document approvals, and internal communication, with access control and encryption.',
+      'Traced multi-minute email-record loads to missing indexes. Those operations improved more than 10x.',
+    ],
+    stack: ['PostgreSQL', 'Node.js', 'Encryption'],
+  },
+  {
+    role: 'Frontend Developer',
+    company: 'Eaglelion Systems Technology',
+    dates: 'Feb 2021 – Apr 2022',
+    place: 'Addis Ababa',
+    points: [
+      'Client payment workflows on products with 100K+ downloads that have handled 3B+ ETB. I integrated the rails, not the ledger.',
+      'Mastercard, Visa, Telebirr, bank APIs: states, callbacks, failures, retries, verification. SOAP→REST against incomplete docs.',
+      'GTmetrix 45 → 97. Page load ~25% faster: code splitting, lazy loading, assets.',
+    ],
+    stack: ['React', 'Next.js', 'Tailwind', 'Payment APIs'],
+  },
+];
+
+export const cases = [
+  {
+    id: 'crons',
+    title: 'The deploy that killed 17 cron jobs',
+    company: 'TPK Synergy Limited',
+    role: 'Senior Full Stack Engineer',
+    kind: 'Reliability · private production',
+    problem:
+      'After every deploy, recurring Amazon sync jobs died quietly. Dashboards looked fine until the data was a day old.',
+    trace: [
+      'BullMQ job state — work marked active, then gone',
+      'ioredis connections closing with the Node process',
+      'Node shutdown: no drain, no SIGTERM handler that waited',
+      'Railway scheduler: the next tick assumed the last run had finished',
+    ],
+    change: 'Explicit shutdown handling across 17 cron processes so a deploy could not leave work stranded.',
+    result: 'Sync jobs survive deploys instead of going silent until a seller notices bad numbers.',
+    still:
+      'A worker that exits without draining still looks healthy on the dashboard. The failure mode is silence, not a page. That is what I watch for.',
+    undo: 'I would put a queue-depth and last-success timestamp on the dashboard the same week. Shutdown handling without a visible lag is how the next silent failure hides.',
+    ask: [
+      'What did SIGTERM actually do before the patch?',
+      'How did you know it was 17 processes, not one flaky job?',
+      'What still pages you, and what still does not?',
+    ],
+    stack: ['Node.js', 'BullMQ', 'Redis', 'Railway'],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'reports',
+    title: 'Reports that used to take two hours',
+    company: 'Mereb Technologies',
+    role: 'Senior Software Engineer',
+    kind: 'Performance · private production',
+    problem: 'Reporting on about a million records ran for two hours and blocked people who needed the numbers.',
+    trace: [
+      'Ad-hoc application paths doing aggregation the database should do',
+      'Missing indexes, no read replica, cache that did not cover the hot report',
+      'Status-checking that polled work already in flight',
+    ],
+    change:
+      'Indexing, read/write separation, caching, and a redesigned status-checking flow so the database did the aggregation.',
+    result:
+      'Same reports, under 30 minutes. Platform performance up about 30%. Infra cost down about 35% (~$100K/year, engineering estimate).',
+    still: 'I cannot show the queries here. They are in a private repo. I will walk through them on a call.',
+    undo: 'I would have split the hottest report into an async job on day one instead of waiting until it was a two-hour meeting blocker.',
+    ask: [
+      'Which index moved the needle, and how did you measure it?',
+      'What did you refuse to cache?',
+      'Where does the 30% / $100K estimate come from?',
+    ],
+    stack: ['PostgreSQL', 'PHP', 'Redis', 'AWS'],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'nedaj',
+    title: 'Nedaj payments',
+    company: 'Eaglelion Systems Technology',
+    role: 'Frontend Developer',
+    kind: 'Shipped product · client rails',
+    problem:
+      'A fuel-purchase app had to talk to Mastercard, Visa, Telebirr, and commercial banks, with incomplete provider docs and a SOAP past.',
+    trace: [
+      'I built the client payment workflows: states, callbacks, failures, retries, verification',
+      'Not the acquiring bank, not the ledger, not the 3B ETB as a personal metric — the products handled that volume',
+      'SOAP replaced with REST against docs that did not match production',
+    ],
+    change: 'Reliable payment states on a product with 100K+ downloads. Live on Google Play.',
+    result: 'Payment rails that hold up in production. GTmetrix 45 → 97 on the web surface.',
+    still: 'Provider callbacks still fail in ways the docs do not mention. Retries and verification are the job.',
+    undo: 'I would have treated provider docs as hostile from the first week and recorded every callback mismatch in one log, not in Slack.',
+    ask: [
+      'What did you own on the client, and what did you not own?',
+      'How did a failed Telebirr callback become a user-visible state?',
+      'Why is 3B ETB not your personal metric?',
+    ],
+    stack: ['React', 'Next.js', 'REST', 'Payment APIs'],
+    url: 'https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eaglelionsystems.nedaj',
+  },
+];
+
+export const work = cases;
+
+export const mentorship = {
+  where: 'Mereb Technologies',
+  who: '3 junior engineers',
+  on: ['API development', 'debugging', 'code quality', 'system design'],
+  still: 'They can speak to the reviews. I will not invent a quote for them. Ask me who, and I will name the work.',
+};
+