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Tanner Christensen
Personal blog · tannerchristensen.com/blogdesigncareer
Tanner Christensen's personal blog at tannerchristensen.com covers design and career. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is the author's own reply about a weekend project that became an App Store Best New App. It discusses coding as a way to solve your own problems, not the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tanner Christensen is a hands-on product designer building interfaces for people who work with capable AI. Currently leading software design at Anduril. Previously Netflix, Facebook, Lyft, and Gem.
Most-linked posts?
- Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-19
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for the kind words! I started coding long, long ago in order to build my web portfolio (back before site builders were a thing). As a result I saw how empowering coding can be. I've always felt being able to code software gives you an ability to solve a lot of your own problems with technology. e.g. I have a lot of private tools I've designed and coded to help me in my day job (such as this simple one I re…
Comment linking /spf
on “Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)”Submitted Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018) as a story · 429 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where do individual contributors go once they peak? as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What we get wrong as designers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does the design team do? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
