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Terminal Resume - ssh.akshaygupta.live

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Introduction

Ever wish a resume said "hi" the same way you do? 🚀 This one does. Pop open iTerm (or whatever shell keeps you grounded), paste ssh ssh.akshaygupta.live, and a neon figlet banner blooms like it's 1994. In a blink you're welcomed with the TL;DR, a friendly prompt, and zero browser chrome in sight. It feels like stepping into a dotfiles stash, only this one tells my career story.

How it works

Under the hood it's just thoughtful TypeScript, and a little flair. Here's the tour 🧭

  • terminal/server.ts spins up an ssh2.Server, accepts every session and hands it off to a fresh ResumeShell so nobody fights for history or width.
  • The shell clears the screen, renders the marquee welcome (renderWelcome mixes figlet, gradient-string and boxen), and reacts to window-change events so everything stays readable from 80 columns to ultrawide setups.
  • Input flows through the commander map, so verbs like summary, skills, experience, education, links, resume, clear, and help are just plain object keys. Want a new section? Add another entry, done.
  • Formatting magic lives in terminal/renderer.ts, where wrap-ansi keeps paragraphs tidy, boxen frames each section, and chalk paints the akshay@terminal $ prompt with that unmistakable gradient.
  • All copy comes straight from terminal/resumeData.ts, the same data powering public/assets/akshay-cv.pdf, which means the PDF, website, and shell stay perfectly in sync.

Check the source code at https://github.com/gupta-akshay/portfolio-v2.

How it is deployed

Setting it up locally is a five-minute coffee break ☕️: run ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/akshay_terminal_host -N "", point TERMINAL_SSH_HOST_KEY at that file, and start pnpm terminal:ssh. It defaults to 0.0.0.0:2222, but you can tweak TERMINAL_SSH_HOST and TERMINAL_SSH_PORT if your network has Opinions.

Production takes the same pragmatic path outlined in the README:

  • fly launch --no-deploy to generate the Fly.io scaffolding from fly.toml.
  • fly volumes create keys_volume --size 1 so the Ed25519 host key survives restarts.
  • fly secrets set TERMINAL_SSH_HOST_KEY=/app/keys/terminal_host_ed25519 to wire up that volume.
  • fly deploy to ship the container that just runs pnpm terminal:ssh.
  • Allocate an IPv4 address, add an A record for ssh.akshaygupta.live, and keep Cloudflare in gray-cloud mode so raw SSH hits the box.

Not a Fly.io fan? Any tiny VM, Railway container, or Raspberry Pi that can run Node 18+ will do, just mount the host key somewhere durable and pass the same env vars.

Conclusion

ssh ssh.akshaygupta.live is a little nostalgia and a lot of signal ✨. It stays in lockstep with the canonical PDF, feels snappy even on spotty Wi-Fi, and is genuinely fun to demo in interviews or hallway chats. Swap in your GIF captures, keep resumeData.ts updated, and you’ve got a living resume that greets people the same way you would, prompt first, attitude included.

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