The Scroll Less Podcast
Explores our increasingly complicated relationship with the devices we rarely put down — from screen habits, mental health and relationships to parenting, algorithms, AI and online harm...
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Found a site that always goes the extra mile for it's niche subject, to the point I genuinely feel bad tryna explore rather than be a sincere initiate https://enochian.net/

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TIL that the touchpad on my (7-year-old, Windows) laptop will scroll windows if you do a slide on them with two fingers
(I only found out about this because on emma's new Mac there are all manner of windows with NO scrollbars, and I've been, like, how the fuck do I scroll these windows, and after much digging I learned out about the 2-finger thing, and then today I accidentally did it on my old laptop...)

When you are WTF-ing why the mouse scroll thingie zooms in instead of scrolling, then you realize the #cat started pushing Control…

Ugh, apparently the KDE Plasma new 6.8 middle-click scroll feature, if you use the tap to lock option instead of the press and hold one, breaks middle-click interaction in apps and potentially middle-click paste too?
Please just look at Firefox, the autoscroll feature there does not come with any drawbacks!!
Is the compositor not capable of knowing if you're interacting with specific elements such as text boxes?
Not sure if Midscroll has the same problem

I've started watching @… 's new Incognito V2 course videos, and they are excellent. The pacing is snappy & professional. The explanations show an in-depth understanding of privacy and all the terms we use. I've been writing about privacy for years now and am still learning new things from this course.
There is a free option (if you scroll furt…

La lectura y la cultura del scroll | Columna de Oscar Contardo
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Original 🔗

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/117258018304886678
Jon is on the train to the final country of his longest trip in the EU (after this train, still 3 more connecting trains to catch, so 🤞) – scroll back through the thread to see how he has already travelled and why he is 24 hours behind schedule!

Ich glaub, man könnte viele Ich-scroll-mich-tot-zum-Makieren"-Leute mit der Erklärung
* Anfang des Textes markieren
* Bonustipp: Doppelklick um ein Wort zu markieren
* Zum gewünschten Ende scrollen (Pro-Tipp: "End"-Taste
* Shift Linksklick
* (STRG C)
#GlobalShortcuts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DamnInteresting/117039146138722052
I love the content of this but I can’t stand the scroll jacking so I never make it more than a few swipes in.

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@… I use time… as in the time it takes to scroll though all of it 😂
Is it a wise approach? Probably not.

Since getting away from Apple on mobile will take a while, I guess I’ll keep complaining how visuals are prioritised over functionality. So many apps have tiny touch points or partially hidden functionality (Apple being the worst offender) - and the Dynamic Island made it worse by having a smaller area to tap to scroll to the top of the screen. 8 out of 10 times when I tap the Dynamic Island and switch apps to an audio app, what I really wanted to do was scroll to the top of the app I was in…

Dislike.
“Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out”
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07/23/media-library-infinite-scrolling-is-now-enabled-by-default-with-a-per-…

Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out
Background The grid view of the Media Library (including the Media Modal) has supported infinite scrolling for a long time, where attachments load automatically as you scroll instead of behind a Lo…

given this guy's shitty politics i am honestly unsurprised by this. don't watch the video (trust me, it's not worth watching), but please take a moment to scroll through the comments and enjoy the creative insults
if you find a good one feel free to reply with a screenshot, i want to collect them :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmgeFTAk2a8

given this guy's shitty politics i am honestly unsurprised by this. don't watch the video (trust me, it's not worth watching), but please take a moment to scroll through the comments and enjoy the creative insults
if you find a good one feel free to reply with a screenshot, i want to collect them :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmgeFTAk2a8

GPT 5.6 Sol came up with a smart solution to preserve native scroll behavior while having control over custom staggered scroll transitions. It makes me want to write a blog article for that, but it’s not technically “my discovery” 🤔

The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-plans-default…

camp scroll ☠️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t7JKaZfUriM

🎚️ The default skill reads the brief, infers a design language and tunes three 1-10 dials: DESIGN_VARIANCE (centered vs asymmetric), MOTION_INTENSITY (hover vs scroll/magnetic) and VISUAL_DENSITY (spacious vs dense dashboards)
🔧 v2 of the default skill is a rewrite: brief inference, a design-system map, a hard em-dash ban, canonical #GSAP code skeletons, a redesign-audit protocol and a str…

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.

trying to make a permalink to a particular line of code in NetBSD, and their CVS browser lacks per-line anchors, and they lack a Codeberg mirror
Microsoft Github seems to be so broken that line anchors don't work at all and interactive search sets a scroll position that's well over 100 lines wrong
oh well, cvsweb (with instructions to the reader) will have to do

Hmm I think I push diff tools too hard; I think what I really need is a setup that just loads two files in neighbouring windows and scrolls them together and allows me to scroll either one manually: the files are only ~140MB and 1.5M lines
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
181242 dg 20 0 16.0g 9.8g 7608 R 99.8 15.6 4:50.76 vimdiff

A fun scroll animation on konghq.com. #css #animation

I now use ads on short form video feeds as a "stopping point" indicator.
Any time I want to be done with the endless scroll, I wait for an ad. Then I close the app.
I know someone is getting metrics on this somewhere. Maybe, it'll net me less ads in my algorithm. And it weirdly has helped me break the scrolling cycle, too.

FYI I've started a channel doing daily Monday-Thursday Texas and US National news headline updates on Telegram! (One for Texas news, one for US news)
Trying to keep each one under 15 minutes so it's easy to stay updated on the news without having to scroll through a ton of stuff!
https://t.me/s/TheWhiskerWire

Yesterday, I released a Zotero plug-in that makes PDFs behave like actual pages on your Mac: single-page or facing-page spreads, fitted to the window, with keyboard shortcuts and a focus mode. I am not a fan of the endless-scroll reader.
1/3

Last week, I published a #newsletter on the latest candide ꘎ media happenings:
https://newsletter.candide.media/archive/15bc7286-c72c-45c2-ad1b-8295552ff383

This surely is not the first interactive #powersoften
Egregious that it does not go microscopic.
https://universeatlas.org/

Deadly Serious
A true crime podcast hosted by Hannah Dal Sasso, diving into the stories we often scroll past or hear as headlines and unpacking what's really beneath them...
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🔍 refscout profiles live award-winning sites for the libraries they really load, pinned scenes, scroll budget, fonts and painted palette. moodboard builds a numbered contact sheet, and source.mjs fetches licence-clean HDRIs and glTF models with every licence recorded.

The "fade in on scroll" style on websites needs to die. I hate it.

The Short End of the Stick
---
"Well damn! Come see this one!"
"Another inhabited planet?"
"Yeah but they really got the short end of the stick..."
"Let me see... Oh wow, they thought synthetic text had intelligence?"
"Yeah, or that it was like a God or something. Classic mistake. But just a second, let me scroll..."
"Oh. Oh wow. That's really unlucky. They had a language model cult happen at the same time as they were burning fossil fuels? Talk about bad timing, but... Oh god."
"Yeah it gets worse!"
"Stockpiling nuclear weapons? They actually used them?!? All that at once? Jeez this is one of the worst eras I've ever seen. Almost like a species with a death wish."
"You know better than that."
"Okay yeah that's not a species problem, I know. But what the hell was the social structure like? How did they survive all that at once?"
"Let's see... Here."
"Oh. Oh shit this actually makes sense. All that stuff wasn't a coincidence, they got hit by a real big wave of nationalism & oligarchy, one right into the other. I didn't even know it could be that bad before the instability flipped things. They had institutions... Yeah they were basically kept down by a few generations of oligarchs; had them pretty much enslaved and worshipping money at the same time. Serious obedience conditioning. Religions were doing it too. Whew that must have been a shitty time. Only a couple of centuries of the worst of it at least. Wait scroll further, what happened?"
"See here, and then here."
"Oh huh. Yeah I guess that flip had been a long time coming. Wow I definitely take back my comment about a death wish, this species is awesome! They made it through all that, haha."
"Yeah pretty cool, huh? Fuck obedience conditioning."
"Yeah, they had it so bad for a minute there. Fuck that bullshit."
"Hey... Wanna go do an intervention? Find some place that's in the middle of that stuff right now and see what we can do?"
"I was just thinking the same thing! But y'know what? Let's stop by this place first, and see if any of them want to come along. I'll bet some of them would be up for it given their history!"
"Well, it's been a couple dozen generations, so you never know how they'll view the history now, but sure, let's do that. The whole point of history is to inspire action, right?"
#Microfiction

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I’m no designer but I’m pretty sure pull-to-refresh works best when the new content appears at the top. This is such an aberration in the GitHub mobile app. You have to scroll up to the top to refresh then scroll down to the bottom to see the new content. 🙄

Only after a few weeks of using this mouse I discovered I can switch between smooth wheel scroll (aka rolling it like a fidget spinner) and a traditional 'tactile' scroll with just one button.
And now I can't stop switching between those two modes just because I can 😬

(The Library of Alexandria was special and a huge loss mainly because at the time it was exceedingly expensive to have more than one copy of a book or scroll.)

🌐 Ten live showcase sites pass the linter at 0 fails / 0 warns: GPGPU particles, WebGL fluid, 3D worlds, scroll-scrubbed video. The tenth was built by another model from the same https://SKILL.md. Nothing is pulled from a component registry — every page is authored vanilla.

I love how, because the parts are in reality the works of different humans, online spaces have comically absurd behaviours, and for this, #Tumblr wins all prizes. Those who've worked in such environments will know, the rest try to imagine the corporate action chain behind it:
Once upon a time, a Share took the Unsubscribed to that post, and a scroll stream of 'similar'. Today that scroll stream is a few, then a demand to belong. Meanwhile the rss feed has always been public, as is a named blog like my https://teledyn.tumblr.com — why would they only fence via their own app? 😅
That said, it's a shame Instagram didn't have that same oversight.

Odd 100% CPU usage.
Not sure how I triggered it but a quick search found this: "Notification centre freezes up if i open it and scroll down" #macOS27

🚨 slopscan is a zero-dependency Node linter that fails the build on concrete slop: the 250–290° purple−blue AI gradient, transition: all, scroll listeners driving animation, autoplay audio, WebGL with no prefers-reduced-motion branch and Inter/Space-Grotesk defaults.

For those of you trying out the lovely Afterglow After Dark emulator app from @… - if you're trying to get the screen saver portion to work on any recent version of macOS, you may need to decouple your wallpaper choice from also being your screen saver
After enabling the screen saver module from Afterglow itself, you can split out screen saver configuration from: Settings -> Wallpaper -> Screen Saver ...
and then switch "Use Screen Saver" from Automatic to Custom
Then if you scroll all the way down, you should see Afterglow appear under "Other"
Once you've selected it, you should be able to see the "Options..." button appear letting you pick which module(s) you're running with what configurations

#CemeterySunday #tombScrolling #graves #graveYard

@… interesting one for you: this midi is supposedly karaoke (it was pulled off a midi karaoke system), and while some of the MIDIs from this system do have proper lyric tracks, this one only has the key guide. however, if you open the file in a text editor and scroll down, you can find garbled text which *looks* like lyrics (albeit in the wrong encoding or something)
any idea how to read them? https://furbnet.com/midi104049_I-Think-Were-Alone-Now.html

@… interesting one for you: this midi is supposedly karaoke (it was pulled off a midi karaoke system), and while some of the MIDIs from this system do have proper lyric tracks, this one only has the key guide. however, if you open the file in a text editor and scroll down, you can find garbled text which *looks* like lyrics (albeit in the wrong encoding or something)
any idea how to read them? https://furbnet.com/midi104049_I-Think-Were-Alone-Now.html

📝 Local news, minus the noise

September 22, 2026
I wanted local news for Wassenaar, but without press releases pretending to be journalism, political parties' own opinions dressed up as reporting, and definitely without gambling ads. So I built my own aggregator.The idea is simple enough: pull RSS from every local source I can find, dump it in a database, filter out the garbage, read what's left. In practice the filtering turned into the whole project.Right now I'm pulling from eight feeds. The municipality's own news, Omroep West, Centraal , Wassenaarders.nl, the Police1, Wassenaar Times, a 112-incident feed, and Vrienden van Wassenaar2. There's also a Google News search bolted on for regio15.nl (for pictures of accidents), since that site doesn't bother with RSS. That one runs backwards from the others: instead of a blacklist of things to exclude, it needs a whitelist of every street name in Wassenaar.Local news has a lot of overlap, and that turned out to be its own little problem. A fire, a crash, a stabbing — the same incident shows up on Omroep West, Centraal , Wassenaarders.nl and the municipality's site within a few hours, each with its own angle and its own stock photo. Reading all four versions back to back is a waste of my time. So every article gets a story ID, and anything covering the same event shares one. The August fire near Wassenaarse Slag is a good example: the municipality's evacuation notice, Omroep West's first report, Centraal 's follow-up and Wassenaarders.nl's colour piece all fold into a single thread. I read it once instead of four times with diminishing returns each pass.
The municipality's own feed, for what it's worth, is fine — road closures, permit notices, the odd royal decoration. Boring in exactly the way a municipal feed should be. The actual problem is political parties. Wassenaarders.nl in particular runs a fair amount of content that reads like it came straight out of the VVD's press office: opinion with the "opinion" part quietly removed, no facts, never a critical word. Similar stuff turns up on other sites too, from groups clearly attached to a party. None of it belongs in a news feed, because it isn't news, it's a party talking about itself.And then, separately, there's the gambling ads. At some point the person running Wassenaarders.nl started slipping in LLM-written ads for online casinos. Tacky doesn't cover it, that's close to unethical, and it has no business anywhere near something calling itself local news.Both problems land on the same site, which is why its exclude list dwarfs everyone else's combined, and keeps growing. The real reason it's such a pain is that the guy doesn't use metadata at all — no categories, no tags, nothing structured to filter on. Every other feed gives me some kind of handle beyond raw text. This one just gives me a title and a blob, so I'm stuck excluding it phrase by phrase as new junk appears. Death by a thousand keywords.One nice side effect of all this: both the 112-meldingen.nl feed and the police feed carry GPS coordinates and a priority code for every incident. Too good a dataset to ignore, so I'm using it to plot a risk map of incidents around Wassenaar, somewhere you can actually see where things cluster, rather than scroll a list of accident reports. Give it a few more months and I can map the most dangerous places in Wassenaar.Aggregating local news sounded like a small job. It wasn't, because most local sites simply aren't built to be aggregated: no proper feeds, no metadata, party messaging laundered as journalism, and in one case, a whole side business in AI-written gambling ads. The technical bit was the easy part. The filtering never really finishes.
Which took an incredible effort to find, only to discover het Police only posted two items in the last 3 years. ∩A weird local organisation that's quite critical of the government. ∩
#Blog #Article #Media #PersonalWebsite #WebDevelopment #Local #Wassenaar