Wi-Fi signs on train doors will be noticed by passengers only when they’re about to get off

I updated my Nice tramway map with a better design of the Terminal 2 terminus, more legible bus and train icons, and some other minor details

Week 21 ←→ Week 23

Bad design: both sides are made of the same material. People sometimes rub with the side that’s supposed to be held

→ Week 21...

Using keyboard shortcuts is much quicker than pointing and clicking. Therefore I eliminated toolbars wherever possible

This is the nicest map of the Nice tram network ever designed

The bread roll is one of the greatest human inventions: it makes any simple ingredient that is boring by itself a proper food

Audioguides in museums are a sign that the story is not being told well enough visually

All messengers are bad in some way or another. iMessage lacks platform universality. Telegram doesn’t believe in decency—any message can be deleted forever...

Light switches should always be inside the room that the lights are being switched in. Letting outsiders interfere in internal affairs is never a good idea...

Having a hand dryer and no paper towels in a restroom is a slap in the visitor’s face. There are hundreds of use cases for paper towels, the most basic being blowing your nose

As the UK is about to leave the EU, I have updated my European diagram to reflect the new situation. I also added the Council of Europe for good measure

Not good enough, Moscow

Today’s phones can be woken by tapping the screen. Future phones will be unlocked by tapping in a pattern similar to Morse code

Why do Chinese copycats trying to pretend they have the real thing always fail so badly? Why do they make it so obvious that what they’re selling is fake despite pretending it’s genuine?

Bus doors should always open outwards. It’s just logic: inwards-opening doors take up space that could otherwise be filled by passengers

It’s a bad scenario when QR codes are being scanned by a human. It’s a good one a human approaches a machine that scans his or her QR code

This came in the mail today: Your WhoisGuard subscription listed below is expiring soon

Sometimes I need to use Private Browsing in Safari. It’s obviously a misnomer because there’s nothing private about it, but it’s generally useful to get better deals