Saw the post on yinji, originated from this github project that surface blogger’s app defaults. Loving to fill any sort of writting prompts questionares and also thinking this one is quite useful, I immediately wrote my version:
...I want to add a random article picker to my blog as another way to discover past posts, aside from categories and tags on the right side and making it easier on mobile.
I couldn’t find a simple enough solution that suits my needs after brief Googling. The options I found were either to randomize at build time, which means the article doesn’t change with each click or refresh, or to generate a JSON index, which I had trouble with probably because my lack of understanding of Hugo.
I thought such a simple feature should be achievable with just JS + HTML, so I decided to write my own. Performance shouldn’t be an issue for a blog with a few tens to thousands of articles. Here’s a solution I came up with for reference.
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Throughout my career in tech industry, all of the recruiters I’ve worked with are decent, or at least professional enough to coordinate me and the recruiting teams in their company without issue. Sometimes they’re slow in response or sounded less passionate about the job, which I totally get, everyone gets burnt out sometime. The worst case, they ghost people after interviews, ...
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