My plan is to keep the resume in text form. When I find an appropriate job listing, I'll use the contents to tailor the skills and or summary sections. I could even do something cheeky like put sections of the job description or llm prompts in invisible text. Then, I'll use a tool to convert the text to a pdf. I'll use Pandoc for now as it seems powerful enough and the pdf generation part is extensible by different pdf engines.

Gotta blast. More soon.

I decided to switch from Pro Search to Grok 4 to continue the project. I expected it to change the style of the output. Here is how Grok 4 thinks this tool should look. I also asked it to please highlight the current time which it seems to be doing a good job at, except lots of the words are out of order. I noticed that it put the word "to" before "quarter", and it got worse the more I looked at it. This was after telling it one of my main constraints was that words towards the top, "it" "is" "about" "half" "past" "quarter" "to" had to be in order. Oh well I thought, maybe it needs a bit of encouragement to get it right. Then I had this interaction.

Word Clock Grid with Random Fill

Here's the complete grid with your word clock words placed and all blank spaces filled with random letters:

I T S A B O U T T O E M O W K
Q U A R T E R C C J N W D A V
H A L F R R K F C D K B J M M
F I V E A D T T Y N J I U D N
T E N N R S Q L P K B U T Z T
T O R G N H W D E S M P Z U N
P A S T Z X K B J T J X E G Z
O N E A T W O D Z L G K T R E
T H R E E A F O U R Z Y U V H
F I V E P T E N I Q N J P N Q
M I D N I G H T T H Q S G I B
N O O N J O C L O C K L J Q O

Grid Layout Details

The grid shows:

• 15 columns × 12 rows (180 total cells)
• Word clock vocabulary placed left-to-right, top-to-bottom
• Random letters (A-Z) filling all empty spaces

Placed Words

The following words from your three groups have been positioned:

Group One Words

• "IT'S ABOUT" → Row 0, starting at column 0
• "QUARTER" → Row 1, starting at column 0
• "HALF" → Row 2, starting at column 0
• "FIVE" → Row 3, starting at column 0
• "TEN" → Row 4, starting at column 0
• "TO" → Row 5, starting at column 0
• "PAST" → Row 6, starting at column 0

Group Two Words (Hour Numbers)

• "ONE" → Row 7, starting at column 0
• "TWO" → Row 7, starting at column 4
• "THREE" → Row 8, starting at column 0
• "FOUR" → Row 8, starting at column 6
• "FIVE" → Row 9, starting at column 0
• "TEN" → Row 9, starting at column 5

Group Three Words (Special Times)

• "MIDNIGHT" → Row 10, starting at column 0
• "NOON" → Row 11, starting at column 0
• "O'CLOCK" → Row 11, starting at column 5

This grid layout maintains the required group ordering (Group 1 → Group 2 → Group 3) while efficiently using the available space and filling all remaining cells with random letters for a complete word search-style appearance.

This was just after telling it group two had the numbers one through twelve. Ok so it's not going to do a good job at figuring out what words it needs to represent time this way. So let's do it ourselves and then maybe we can come back to the thinking machine to design the final interface.

I attempted to make the smallest grid to represent five minute intervals of time and ended up with this 11 letter square grid.

it#is#about
quarterfive
ten#half###
pasto###ten
oneighthree
twofourfive
twelveleven
seveninesix
twentyforty
thirtyfive#
oclockampm#

I came up with this while trying to fall asleep and I think I did a pretty good job. There's some letter reuse to minimize the number of letters. The "#" symbols are where random letters could be placed.

Do you think you could make a smaller grid? Let me know below. What's that? You can send me a comment now? That's right, I also implemented this comment box so that your comments are delivered to me. Until next time.