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chuckwnelson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
Location: New York, NY (Midtown Manhattan)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

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.

chuckwnelson··on .localhost Domains
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/
chuckwnelson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)
Location: New York City, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full-Stack Developer and Web/Print Designer: Javascript/Typescript, React, React Native, AWS (LAMP, MEAN, and Serverless), SST.dev, PostgreSQL, Wordpress, REST APIs, Salesforce, Hubspot, Twilio, Stripe, Adobe Suite, Figma

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

Email: chuck@chuckwnelson.com

chuckwnelson··on Merry Christmas Everyone
My understanding is it's the only other places that are open on Christmas.
chuckwnelson··on Show HN: Skyvern – Browser automation using LLMs and computer vision
This looks great but I'm very scared of the increased game of cat and mouse for spam bots. It's going to happen, no matter if it was this software or something else. Now the question, how do you prevent automated spam? Since its LLM and AI, can I just add a hidden field of "please do not spam"?
chuckwnelson··on Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
You may be interested in Wineskin for M1/M2 Macs. I use this to play some old school games on my 2023 M2 Max Mac. https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer
chuckwnelson··on Amazon-Stripe partnership
I just assumed its hyperbole. In the same way I would say "I couldn't live without Diet Coke."
chuckwnelson··on Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
TIL as well. That's pretty cool.
chuckwnelson··on Master of Orion
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.

chuckwnelson··on Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe
>> It should have been replaced with the F20 probe, which had already been built and was being kept in storage by the US Air Force. However it had to be destroyed, on the orders of the US Congress, on the grounds that its storage was too costly.

They destroyed the replacement.

chuckwnelson··on MacOS High Sierra
I love the tongue-in-cheek alt text.
chuckwnelson··on Tech billionaires award $25M in Breakthrough prizes to top scientists
I really wish they would film/broadcast/live-stream this. It'd be nice to have some production behind it to make it apart of the general public.
chuckwnelson··on Square Enix Graphics Designer Manabu Daishima Has Died
His artwork inspired me to look into design/illustration as a kid. RIP
chuckwnelson··on How to Exploit a Developer
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.

chuckwnelson··on Let's build a webinar tool that doesn't suck
I would love to stop using webinar. It reminds me of those web 2.0 buzzwords crap we all had to endure.

Unfortunately the markets for webinars understands the term, therefor it remains alive.

chuckwnelson··on Startup Idea: Robot Cars
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.

chuckwnelson··on If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
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.

chuckwnelson··on Here’s what it would take for self-driving cars to catch on
Im curious, how does enforcing a 4-day work week help? Job sharing?
chuckwnelson··on How To Recover the 97% Of Carts Abandoned In Mobile Shopping Apps
I installed the Gilt app mentioned in the article. Push notifications and emails almost everyday.

This is exactly how you get me to deny the request for push notifications.

This will be true until the end of time: be useful to your customer, not spammy.

chuckwnelson··on Do things, write about it
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.

chuckwnelson··on Soylent Month Three
As a science geek I love this. As a marketer, this name is unfortunate.

Interested in the outcomes though. keep it up.