For virtualisation, I recommend https://virtuoso.dev/ react-virtuoso. It's a great library, with react-window and react-virtualized when you come to dynamic size lists it becomes really tricky, but its much easier in react-virtuoso from my experience.

Inspiring, good luck on your journey. Don't let other people tell you what you can't do

I usually start my day with reading some articles from daily.dev, also I've been rereading the react docs especially on hooks recently, I realised how much complexity the useEffect hides