top developers used to know every vi keystroke so they could type faster and deliver more lines of code;
modern "10x developers" need to leverage AI to become more productive

Bad UI on purpose = makes people try harder = increase engagement and brand loyalty ... until eventually a disruptive competitor will offer a smoother user experience and suddenly you'll lose them all.

Can't wait for the time when Instagram, the undead dinosaur of antisocial media, will be history at last.

If manufacturers want me to use their software, they might consider making sure that it works, instead of expecting me to act as their beta testers and report the bugs that they failed to find.

I hate deprecations! Adopted a web project that was actively maintained until 2023, how can it already be so "legacy" that none of its npm scripts work anymore?

Dear GPT, dear Gemini,
cher Claude, cher Copilot,
thanks for wasting my time
with your contradictory advice!
I could as well
roll a dice.

Validating an input field while it's still focused is like a teacher repeatedly interjecting "this is no complete sentence" before the students have finished their sentence.

Bing, Google, and StackOverflow pushing users to use AI is like the vinyl and music industry pushing CDs in the 1990s. Like lemmings, rushing self-deprecation.

User Signals are unhelpful incentives:
Google's so-called User signals value scroll depth and time spent on a website as positive indicators of valuable content.
However, websites with bad UX easily outplay good ones when people spend more time scrolling pages over and over desperately trying to find a registration or contact form to achieve something they'd have more quickly achieved with good UX.

Instagram's UI is like an extremely hard game that will kicks you out of the process just a second before you're about to finish just to make you start over and try harder. It's a know deceptive pattern to make people invest more energy and engage more intensively, some will leave in frustration, but the rest will feel more attached to your product thanks to the sunk cost fallacy. What a pathetic waste of time! Sad.

How can I disable the obnoxious AI results on top of Google's search results page? Google's AI suggests I install a third-party Chrome extension. Seriously? Or I always have to switch to the "web" tab from "all"?

Below the AI snippet, there's a "featured snippet", so even the ads, videos, and related questions only come below the fold.

Another unfriendly chat bot on a paid landingpage supposed to acquire new customers in 2025:

Chatbot: Do you require support with existing products or are you looking to renew/purchase services?
User: do you offer vserver plans
Chatbot: Sorry. To best assist you, please select one of the options below.
User: thats not the way to acquire new customers
Chatbot: Sorry. To best assist you, please select one of the options below.

AI chatbot: AI Assistant Miller
User: Hi Miller
AI chatbot (Miller): Hello! It seems like you're looking for something specific, but I'm not quite sure what that is just yet. However, we do have a fantastic range of hosting options available.
Let me know so I can assist you better!
User: sounds fantastic, Miller
AI chatbot (Miller): Thank you! I'm glad you think so! But just to clarify, I'm Alia, your friendly AI Hosting Expert here to assist you.

developers are lazy
designers are crazy
managers are stupid
customers don't know what they want
how does our business still make money?

Google Calendar notification: how not to use CSS line-clamp.

"Posting is currently turned off for this type of place," so that photo of an oil rig off the coast of Tabasco will forever shape people's first impression of the Gulf of Mexico that US citizens are now supposed to call Gulf of America.