The page is a disaster on a desktop, too. It does something weird to the scroll, so I can't use either my arrow keys or my Vimium keys in the normal way. Note to web authors: I'm sure I'm not the only one who left quickly after I saw that my scroll was hijacked. If you want people to read your stuff, try dialing back the user abuse.
I endured the hijacked scroll because I was curious about what he meant.
It looks like a good idea, but in a very user-hostile interface, what wasn't surprising at all. If I had to guess, the author is honestly trying to increase his site's usability by overriding the default behavior, he is just failing spectacularly.
I was surprised when my arrow keys didn't work properly. Now I see you had the same issue. Using an old laptop, I'm often navigating through pages with keyboard track-pad on these old laptops is trash.