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chuckwnelson

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Location: New York, NY (Midtown Manhattan)

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Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, React Native, SQL, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckwnelson/

Email: chuck@workwithsigil.com

I'm a NYC–based fractional CTO with 20 years of full-stack development and design experience and two Cannes Lions for Creative Technology and Use of Data. I've helped teams from startups to enterprise build scalable platforms.

- My background is design and development, connecting the dots between the two.

- I've worked in entertainment and financial, and healthcare industries

- I've managed teams of designers and developers to launch creative digital campaigns.

I use .localhost for all my projects. Just one annoying note: Safari doesn't recognize the TLD localhost so it will try to perform a search. Adding a slash at the end will fix this; ie example.localhost/

Master of Orion 6 years ago

100% agree. Always loved playing the Darlok and stealing everything (especially you tech researching races).

I always dreamed of recreating this in the browser with an online multiplayer component, but the battle system was always flawed in my opinion.

As a graphic design major turned programmer, this was very common to students in design school. Never have seen it with dev projects though.

I think new students and freelancers need to be aware of these type of scams in all their forms.

I agree that people think computers are magic and as soon as one fails they get out their pitchforks, but I disagree that automated cars will never happen. It will happen just more slowly.

The changes will be gradual and they have already happened to a degree. Automatic brakes have already been implemented, more expansive GPS is happening. Next I could see an expansion on cruise control.

Its a combo between marketing new features and iterating on current technology.

I think the invention of the automated car will be a gradient, not a sudden occurrence.

We usually put lengths along an X axis when graphing, I believe this is why horizontal scrolling was used.

We also tend to think of our planets in order from left to right from the sun.

If this was about ocean depth, vertical scrolling might be more analogous.

But its all subjective of course.

A lot of designers have this issue. The hardest person to develop/design for is yourself since you're your worst critic.

Ask yourself "What if?" Take something you're interested in and modify it slightly versus trying to think of a whole new original concept. What if I made a to do list specifically for teachers? What if I created a workout app only for developers? etc.

This could help spark your imagination into something more grandiose.

Soylent Month Three 13 years ago

As a science geek I love this. As a marketer, this name is unfortunate.

Interested in the outcomes though. keep it up.