Obviously too little information to tell, but I was experiencing the same thing consistently as a cloud engineer before finding out I had ADHD. Diagnosed at 28 & eventually found a good medication fit.
Now there's still a lot of the drudgery, but attention regulation has substantially improved. That feeling of having no energy to do anything regardless of how easy it might be, and the resulting brain drain was a huge weight. In the case of ADHD you don't have control over when your brain "Turns On", and unless there's some urgency or interest, getting started on any task at all becomes virtually impossible.
Take up Emacs! You'll always have something you want to tinker with, and programming in lisps is a lot of fun. You get the added benefit that any tinkering you /do/ do benefits your programming UX.
This sounds like a rudimentary implementation of a Zettelkasten system. Basically it's a philosophy of taking atomic notes, with no predefined hierarchy/structure where notes reference each other through their unique IDs. Notes are atomic, often using tagging for search & visualization. Over time the atomic, linked notes can generate interesting insights not immediately apparent by the content of the notes themselves; their links can show relationships hidden in the connections, etc. There's much more to it than that, but the core ideas sound similar.
If you're interested, check out Org-roam for its implementation of this stuff. It's emacs-based, but uses the same style of markdown notes connected by tagging & linking, while providing search & visualization features which take minimal effort to configure. I've modified my own fork of it to include some staleness tracking on files, identifying the last time a node was accessed, updated, or linked-to.
If it is publicly accessible, they cannot limit the means by which you access the information from the perspective of the law. This was seen in the case of Oracle & another company scraping their technical documentation IIRC (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...). The site may take action to prevent this access, etc. but they cannot pursue legal action for this alone (unless this has changed in the last couple of years). There was a similar precedent with Linkedin maybe 5-7 years ago.
That being said, depending on the target they can make things difficult if they know you're doing it. In general, scraping data itself, then transforming that data for use is reasonably safe, but using the scraped content in unprocessed form can be problematic. Selling the collected data to users without processing it sounds like it could cause problems both from the target companies, as well as via the customer's perception of how you acquire the data. Processing the data to show something like variations in recipes per region, categorizing different recipes into styles based on ingredients, cook time, complexity, etc. are all value-adds which make your data more useful than the raw data-set, and make a stronger argument for the sale of your dataset.
Of course IANAL, and I welcome anyone else to add to or contradict this info.
The differing scroll rates of the side-grid & background image is called the parallax effect.
Besides that, it looks like some CSS animations specified in the stylesheet around the `.space-grid-wrap` selector which adjusts some of the scrolling behavior.
Agreed that whitespace requires an adjustment period, but editors from vanilla VI on servers, to your choice editor handle whitespace with very little issues.
Add in automatic formatting and the amount of issues arising from indentation falls further; add in linting & it's really not an issue.
Now there's still a lot of the drudgery, but attention regulation has substantially improved. That feeling of having no energy to do anything regardless of how easy it might be, and the resulting brain drain was a huge weight. In the case of ADHD you don't have control over when your brain "Turns On", and unless there's some urgency or interest, getting started on any task at all becomes virtually impossible.