rowanmanning

lol it's nice to see Hacker News is still a bastion of reasoned communication and friendly discourse between tech people. I should really log in more.

I built Joblint literally 10 years ago as a fun side project. I was fed up with a spate of really terrible job ads and decided to write something to help me as an engineer vet whether I wanted to work at a company.

It's not a solid tool, it doesn't represent the way I'd build things now, and it codifies my fairly limited view of what made a bad job when I was a bright-eyed 20-something. I should probably add a note to the repo and site to express this but I'm always surprised when it gets dug up tbh.

If I were building it again then yeah it'd spot a lot more issues, it wouldn't be built using a massive RegExp , and it'd probably go harder on trying to spot red flags around homophobia and racism. I'm sure some of the foaming gammons here on HN would be overjoyed.

Anyway, see you all in another 10 years. Lots of love

Hi, thanks for offering to fast-track! My Docker ID is rowanmanning

With small changes to the API, it's possible. Shunter requires a certain `Content-Type` header to be sent in order to trigger the rendering process. But largely yes, if your back-end can serve JSON already you should be able to make it play well with Shunter quite easily

I haven't heard it described like that, but in a sense I guess. At Nature (where it was developed) we use it to decouple our front and back ends. So when we work on a feature we agree on a JSON structure beforehand and work in parallel. It also gives us the ability to work in exactly the same way on the front-end no matter which back-end system is producing the JSON. This is awesome if you're a company that has applications written in quite a few languages

This is looking really nice, a big improvement on your initial release! The Cycle View is useful, it cuts down the time it takes to review jobs massively. Great work

Semantic HTML elements, yes, but CSS class names are ignored by assistive technology at large.

Hi sally. A sin? Definitely not. The reason gender mentions is an error is because it's actually illegal for a job spec to discriminate either way in terms of hiring. If you're getting false negatives with this rule, please let me know and I can revise it :)

Absolutely. I was planning to, but would happily endorse someone else if they were to build it – the command line presents a barrier to entry for less technical folks. Thanks for the feedback!

You're right, for the tool to improve I'll definitely need to work on some of the rules. Consider some of these almost proof-of-concept at the moment.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying actually, it's why this rule emits a notice rather than an error or warning. Considering that some of the rules are a little polarising, it would probably make sense to allow people to ignore certain rules. Thanks for the feedback

Thanks, and you're probably right about some temptations being applicable to bro culture.

On mentioning editors, I like your explanation of why it's not good. I'm intending on writing a list of explanations for each rule at some point so it's useful to get other people's opinion on them.

Looks really useful, also starred ;)