How to decentralize your resume

Storing data on a blockchain is non trivial and often expensive task. Fortunately there is a solution to it called InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). I will use it to upload and decentralize my resume.

According to ITPS white paper (https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-p2p-file-system.pdf ) IPFS is:

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed
file system that seeks to connect all computing devices
with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS
is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single
BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git
repository.

Installation

It's pretty easy and well explained in installation guide https://ipfs.io/docs/install/

Setup

If you have not run IPFS yet go ahead and run a following command

ipfs init

Connecting to the peers

In a new terminal window (on Mac, Windows might be different) run

ipfs daemon 

Uploading data to the IPFS

That's actually very easy. The only thing you have to do is to run a:

ipfs add nameofthefile

Replace the name of the file with path to your file in your computer.
Make a note of the resulting hash. That's a ID of your file, and that's how you can access it.

Here is a final result:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWUDy2j8xt4mU5vdqNGvqnuQ2FhGfKbiMMPRHT89Nm2UQ