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Christopher Roosen
Personal blog · christopherroosen.com/blogdesignphilosophyculture
Christopher Roosen's personal blog at christopherroosen.com covers design, philosophy and culture. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Can Openers: The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on attention and error-proofing (Poka-Yoke, pointing and calling) and on how Instagram filters imitated expired analog film. One commenter tells readers to read the film post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Christopher Roosen, Experience Anatomist, Designer & Technology Philosopher, goes on Adventures in a Designed World, getting under the skin of design and tech.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2020/4/20/how-the-ritual-of-pointing-and-calling-shisa-kanko-embeds-us-in-the-world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-08
- Can Openers: The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-18
What Hacker News says?
This is basically https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2020/4/20/how-the-rit...
Comment linking /blog/2020/4/20/how-the-ritual-of-pointing-and-calling-shisa-kanko-embeds-us-in-the-world
on “Chain of Thought for Humans”Submitted Can Openers: The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think one implementation if this is where Japanese rail workers point and call out the thing they are noting, checking, or changing as a form of conscious attention. “Pointing and Calling” (Shisa Kanko): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j... https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2020/4/20/how-the-rit...
Comment linking /blog/2020/4/20/how-the-ritual-of-pointing-and-calling-shisa-kanko-embeds-us-in-the-world
on “Poka Yoke”Submitted Can Openers – The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRead this https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2019/11/10/how-imperf... I cant find the original source of why I know this but I know the original Instagram filters were trying to emulate specific looks from specific analog cameras and expired film. Smearing colors for example or weird blue / purple overlays is what you get when you shoot expired film.
Comment linking /blog/2019/11/10/how-imperfect-analog-lomo-photography-inspired-and-then-was-pushed-from-instagram
on “DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor”
