All of the posts in Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series are excellent and worth a read. Do be sure to read the comments as well, there's some gold in there.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I've read I think all of them before, but they're fun to reread here and there.
His other writing is similarly great, but much of it is for a far more chemist audience.
Not all of them are titled "Things I won't work with", but others seem still on-theme.
If it doesn't show up in your browser, try this: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
Yeah I think it's not visible on my browser, maybe because mobile? At least they didn't remove the functionality, just hid it :/
(I suspect it’s a recent addition, though; I don’t recall that panel being there last time.)