Librarian résumés
I got a bunch of files for the repository today from a faculty member. Of course the filenames were a mess. So I wrote a little Python haxie to fix them—lowercase everything, take out special characters, replace spaces and dots (except for the dot separating filename from extension) with underscores.
No big deal. I write little haxies like this—well, honestly, not as often as I did in my conversion-peasant days, and it shows because I have to look up pieces of the Python library I used to know cold, but I do still write them. They’re ugly and nasty and they don’t handle edge cases well and I’d never release them to the wild, but they get the job done faster than I could do it by hand. That’s what they’re for.
The other day I saw a résumé where a little haxie such as this was given major props in the applicant’s cover letter. And what’s more, people were impressed!
I never in all my born days would have thought of that. I just bung Python in under “skills” and let it go.
Just goes to show—well, I don’t know what, honestly. That libraries are under-coder-ed, certainly.