Vibrating porridge, that's how I envision quantum phenomena; particles would be the lumps in the purée.

I find that it helps thinking about liquid rather than solid media as it provides better insight for things like "spooky action at a distance", "uncertainty principle" or "probabilistic nature of the waveform", as it dispels the learned intuitions about position and speed of solids that the article speaks about.

There are "particle properties" also that need to be accounted for, and I think of those as "recognizable patterns" measured around an area of interest located where the particle position would be, rather than physical "things" or individual objects.