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Blogger is actively hostile to phone browsers. For horizontal scrolling, you can try dragging at an angle (to fool the page-change JS) and then vertically scrolling to negate the vertical component of the first motion. It becomes pretty natural after a while :/

Author here: yes, this bothers me, too (especially the horizontal scroll switching to another post). I'm not sure how to disable that since Blogger doesn't provide a way to disable this.

However, I may be able to fix the zooming. This was triggered by the switch to syntax highlighting using Pandoc which wraps each code block in a scrollable frame if it exceeds the given size. I can probably fix that with appropriate CSS although it will take me some time to figure it out.

It would be good to see a fix from this from upstream (but the poster notes that this isn't necessarily simple) of course, but...

To propose another hack, I've found that 'Request Desktop Site' in your mobile browser's menu works well for articles like these (it just reverts to desktop layout).