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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.

Vernard 2025-Dec-04 13:38

Atrociously Horrible Dark Pattern Ad of the day:

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Image: Pic of an annotated terrible ad
Vernard 2025-Dec-04 05:37

Hmm... I just realised my blog timestamps in Zulu time.

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Vernard 2025-Dec-04 05:35

Here it is: the First Chirp. Helloooooo Earth.

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Vernard 2023-Jul-13 12:00

Back to writing. I’ve realised true CSS expertise is rare; most UI teams fumble it. Up next: Fixing that, plus Figma memory management tips.

Vernard 2023-Jun-01 12:00

Something of note to think about: The Effort Paradox is both costly and valued.  A significant cognitive model on how market pricing can be manipulated. https://bit.ly/44fV9Sm

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The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued According to prominent models in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and economics, effort (be it physical or mental) is costly: when given a choice, humans and non-human animals alike tend to avoid effort. Here, we suggest that the opposite is also ... PubMed Central (PMC)