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Are you planning a hike or bike tour soon? Do you want to immortalize your favorite place? Are you looking for an unusual gift?

The Swiss Confederation’s topography office allows you to print your own map. Choose a scale, center point, cover photo and title and receive your personalized map.

The service is really nice. Too bad we can’t (yet) choose the layer to appear on the map, such as hiking paths.

I find incredibly hard to choose filter. The result depend so much of the signal you put in it. This why, I like those kinds of lists.

[Ma très chère Suisse,] Garde les Pieds sur Terre, (re)deviens vraiment hospitalière et accueillante, même pour les plus petits et les plus modestes. On n’est pas tous de passage, on aimerait revenir, ne nous en décourage pas. On sera même heureux d’ouvrir nos porte-monnaie.

A collection of fun websites that bring joy. This is a great inspiration.

This new email service from the Basecamp team looks very interesting and promising.

An ode to big knobs by @tomwhitwell.

Separating the controls from the device does something interesting. It makes you listen. An unmarked, arbitrary control has to influence the sound somehow to make any sense. Otherwise it’s just moving a bit of plastic.

There is a new system in town. @busycircuits just announced the System Coupe which contains three new modules. I own half of these modules and they are top level !

A new font for coder is in town.

As software developers, we always strive for better tools but rarely consider font as such. Yet we spend most of our days looking at screens reading and writing code. Using a wrong font can negatively impact our productivity and lead to bugs. MonoLisa was designed by professionals to improve developers’ productivity and reduce fatigue.

Dans un pays où la responsabilité civique et la confiance dans le système se veulent élevées -cela va des caissettes de journaux en libre accès au vote par correspondance postale, en passant par le maintien du fusil militaire du citoyen-soldat à la maison- n’est-il pas normal de penser que la grande majorité de la population est adulte et responsable et donc capable d’appliquer par elle-même les règles sanitaires?

La réponse sanitaire suisse à l’épidémie porte ses fruits, mais dans quelle mesure? Une modélisation réalisée par des épidémiologistes de l’université de Berne s’est attachée à quantifier à quel point les mesures de distanciation sociale et de confinement volontaire ont endigué l’épidémie. Selon ces premiers résultats, préliminaires, l’effet est spectaculaire.

Très inintéressante analyse de @montjo des mises en lumières des allocutions officielles

ce choix pourrait davantage s’expliquer par un souci de transparence, par la volonté presque fébrile de ne rien cacher.

Pour rappel, si vous vous habillez en vert à l’écran, il faut en assumer les conséquences

The system for creative people is broken.
It puts:

• algorithms over ideas.
• quantity over quality.
• what’s easy to sell over what’s good.
• money, brands, and just about everything else over the people who actually make the things.
  Fuck that.

Un article très intéressant du Temps sur la manière de communiquer du Conseil Fédéral durant cette période de crise du coronavirus

To provide users with a good service, government organisations usually need to collect data. Lots of data. The GOV.UK Design System team publishes patterns and components that let users enter their data in an easy and accessible way. The last thing we want to do is create barriers to users completing a task and force them to find an alternative method of using the service, such as phoning a helpline.

After looking at @mylarmelodies’s video about Switched Mults, I made some research and discoverd the Twiigs. It’s a quad bernoulli gate and I want it in my rack.

A wonderful article by @aral

What we need is the opposite of Big Tech. We need Small Tech – everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits.

This is not some tin-foil hat conspiracy theory, it’s simply the business model of mainstream technology. I call this business model people farming.

Here’s a french translation of the article by @Framasoft

A practical book for practitioners and non-practitioners alike interested in better service delivery, this book is the definitive new guide to designing services that work for users.

I never heard that Lou Downe wrote a book. This is definitively on my “to read” list.

We didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was a cash cow. Unlike platforms like Facebook, we also didn’t buy it to invade your privacy and sell your data. We bought it because we love photographers, we love photography…

I really like the idea of having an app for just you and your closest friends/family – no strangers or advertisers allowed. A range of features encourages you to share intimate moments that make you feel connected.
My whole family uses WhatsApp which is an application that I would like to use as little as possible.
But before using Cocoon, I will wait and see what kind of data privacy we have, if the data are encrypted, if we can we export the data, etc.