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kennytilton
Yet another HN Who's Hiring Browser. It has various handy filters and sorts and lets us assign and sort by "stars", flag as "applied to", and record notes.

Uses localstorage so stick to one browser! Tested on Opera, Chrome, and FireFox. FF is needed to load index.html as a local file (unless someone help me work around Chrome's complaints).

Regex searching needs a ton of refinement. Working on that now, and performance when hundreds of jobs are matched.

More/same info here: https://github.com/kennytilton/kennytilton.github.io/tree/ma...

Happy job hunting!

andrewstetsenko
Cool tool, thanks. Can you provide the same for the section 'Who wants to be hired? It might be interesting for recruiters
gmu3
Cool, I think it would be nice if you could search case insensitive too.
kennytilton
enter "taipei,i" without the quotes and you should get the Taipei listing. But maybe as a convenience I could add that as a checkbox since it would really be a good default? Please create an issue here and I will knock that off: https://github.com/kennytilton/matrix/issues
dallamaneni
Items that has "No Visa" are also included when Visa is selected. This needs to be fixed. Otherwise, it is great. Thanks!
kennytilton
Now fixed. I did the same for REMOTE and INTERN, but suspect those do not come up as often. Thx for the suggestion.
benatkin
The regex search is nifty. I was curious how many would have "zen" in their names so I did a title search for any word that starts or ends with "zen". Only found two results: one for Zen.ly and one than happened to have the word "frozen". Maybe the "zen" trend in startup names has died down a bit.
kennytilton
Thanks. All credit to JS RegExp: my code splits on || and then && to get to search expressions. It splits those on comma, using them as term and options in "new RegExp( term, options)"
mafro
I'll try this on my desktop when I get to work in a minute, but it's totally unusable on my Pixel 2 :)
saghm
Same; I think it's because the only way to submit the form is to hit "enter" (as the page describes), which doesn't seem to be possible on the mobile keyboard
kennytilton
The value gets recorded "onchange", so tabbing off also submits the form. We could also add a "search" button and clicking that would have the same effect. Lend me your thoughts here and I will do something: https://github.com/kennytilton/matrix/issues
kennytilton
I lied. I will create the issue myself and fix that. Please file issues for any other mobile unfriendliness (and I will test myself if I can find my phone).
kennytilton
Found the phone. Looks like I need some -- what's the word? -- adaptive CSS?
kennytilton
OK, tabbing off kicks off the regex search now, or anything else that moves the focus and triggers "onchange". I still think a "Search Now" button making that explicit is a good idea. And then we can add an option not to automatically kick off searches when the parameters change...feature creep! :)
kennytilton
Just tossed in some responsive CSS to get content to wrap on narrow pages. Lemme know what else would help.
kennytilton
Please check it out now. I made a lot of adjustments to handle smaller screens and limit the number of jobs displayed. The initial load still takes a while on my phone, however.
kennytilton
I just released a new version with a bunch of changes. https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ More to come, including using a routing library so we do not lose our whole context navigating from the page. I was not seeing that before but I am now so up goes the hood.