St. Finian’s Bay, County Kerry, Ireland (© Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images)

Infinite scrolling is unusual. Most implementations are “almost infinite” to avoid excessive DOM length (memory).

• Infinite scrolling: Limits content to an arbitrarily large amount to avoid exhausting memory.

• Virtual scrolling: Unload everything except the visible viewport + a top and bottom offset. Pad the rest.

Virtual scrolling is infinite, but breaks auxiliary actions ( CTRL + F ) because what’s on the screen is the content.

document.addEventListener("scroll", function() {
  console.log(document.querySelectorAll('*').length)
});

The most popular library appears to be https://infinite-scroll.com.

nikitonsky: If only computers could create directories instead of complaining about it

Giant panda eating bamboo, Chengdu, China (© Suzi Eszterhas/Minden Pictures)

Deno Deploy’s command line interface, deployctl, is the simplest way to deploy your projects to the cloud. Here’s how to do it.

nikitonsky: If you want to trick users into enabling notifications, at least come up with a good reason to do so.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California (© Stephen Matera/Tandem Stills + Motion)

nikitonsky: Dear website designers! Please don’t hijack our scroll!

Wat Phra Ngam, Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand (© boonchai wedmakawand/Alamy)

nikitonsky: This is a dropdown menu. With two options. I guess the lesson here is “don’t use pictures of controls as icons for other controls”