A chirp is a short remark, as brief as its avian call or trill. Concise, intentional, and capped at 267 characters. It bears no relation to a certain blue bird. Vernard Mercader’s X Twitter replacement.
Vernard2026-Feb-22 03:33
These are the 6 patterns for UX discovery: screener (who to talk to), baseline context (standardise setup), critical incident + rating (rank pain), SEQ (ease after a concept), ranking/constant-sum (trade-offs), and semantic scales (perception).
Hate it or hate it, it's literally (factually) used by approximately 98.9% of ALL websites in the known universe. The rest (1.1%) are legacy sites, HTML+CSS-only sites, or ultra-minimalist text-only sites. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BZh28GgJ7/
Do you notice your Figma Project is slowing down? “Most people don’t ‘hit a Figma limit’. They leak memory without realising it. This Short explains what’s actually happening – and how to avoid it.” A full Blog later!
Likes, boosts, and monetisation optimise for reach and dopamine, not credibility or signal. I use social media to leave well-labelled artefacts for the people who already care – recruiters, collaborators, hiring managers. Smaller audience. Higher signal-to-noise.
Insightful find about Designing for Children: Your minimalist, 10-pixel-font-size, “Apple”-esque design style won't be very helpful. Use massive touch targets and fonts with a proper single-story 'a' so children can actually read it. https://bit.ly/4jOK29H
It propagated, finally. If you host your own microblog, you can actually get it to show above the official 'Twitter' (now called "X") on search results (twitter + {your name}) 🙌🏽😆 Thanks to a specialised SEO technique
