Hacker News: jesstelford

New comment by jesstelford in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

jesstelford — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:19:31 +0000

This is the way.

Even the cheapest cardboard-filled IKEA units hold together much better when glued, and makes moving the units less stressful (no more "it's creaking / skewed when I pick it up").

New comment by jesstelford in "Show HN: JSON Backup for your StackOverflow resume/CV"

jesstelford — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 07:31:51 +0000

Hey, I created this! Here to answer questions :)

I started hacking on this when I was blind-sided with an email from SO: "Notice: Discontinuing Stack Overflow Developer Story"! To be honest, I hadn't updated my story in a while, but I had put effort into it, and it was linked from a couple of places which I didn't want to suddenly go to a dead link.

The wild thing is the huge number of folks who are bummed this is going away (over 2,700 downvotes on their announcement post, plus over 100 upvotes on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30134135), yet SO are digging their heels in and are busy getting ready to scrub all the resumes/cv's from their site completely :(

What I ended up building (imaginatively called "Developer Story") comes with two options: download a JSON backup of your StackOverflow Developer Story, or re-publish it to developerstory.dev at a unique URL. Early feedback has been great so far, and a majority of people (but not all!) have re-published their story, and I'm proud to say they look great!

Here's my Story as an example: https://developerstory.dev/story/jesstelford

To see what you've currently got on StackOverflow, make sure you're logged in, then go to https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/current

I'd love feedback on the tool so far, and what you think I could add for the future?

Edit: formatting.

Show HN: JSON Backup for your StackOverflow resume/CV

jesstelford — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 07:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://developerstory.dev/stackoverflow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696196

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jesstelford in "Ask HN: Replacement for Stack Overflow jobs section?"

jesstelford — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:17:57 +0000

You've still got a few days (up to March 31st)! You can save it as PDF directly from your Developer Story, but if you want it in another format, you'll have to use a third party tool.

Shameless plug: I was pretty bummed too, so I built a JSON exporter that anyone can use: https://developerstory.dev/stackoverflow