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.