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When you are visiting a personal #website or #blog: do you enjoy reading all the latest blog posts / journal entries / notes *in full* on the home page or do you prefer a list of headings for the latest entries?

Secure Password Generator Based on Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator
Abel C. H. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02578 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02578

Secure Password Generator Based on Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator
In recent years, numerous incidents involving the leakage of website accounts and text passwords (referred to as passwords) have raised significant concerns regarding the potential exposure of personal information. These events underscore the critical importance of both information security and password protection. While many of these breaches are attributable to vulnerabilities within website infrastructure, the strength and security of the passwords themselves also play a crucial role. Conseq…

Personal Finance With Ravi Sharma | Australian Finance & Property Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/personal-finance-with-ravi-sharma-australian-finance-property-podcast/

Sara on `scroll-target-group` & `:target-current` and how authors still need to add programmatic info for the current link:
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scrollspy/
Because, like CSS carousels, CSS won’t do it alone.
She filed a Chromium issue:

CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

Still blows my mind that in Germany (and some other European countries) it’s mandatory to put an imprint with your actual address on your personal website. So basically doxing by default, unless you pay a provider to hide behind a proxy address to forward legal letters.*
* There are exemption for private, non-commercial sites but that boils down to .htaccess protection. Anything else is not considered private or non-commercial in legal practice.

We all only have this one life. There’s no reason to hold back and sell yourself short, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I encourage you to do the same, regardless of where you are in your life – show your best work, show your experience! 💚)

I have seen toots warning about this and wanted to comment on it.
They are impersonating the Mastodon team to require users to ‘verify their account’ and saying that until they do this their account is suspended.
Verification on mastodon is free and you can do it yourself without giving any personal information and it is TOTALLY OPTIONAL.
No server/instance is going to require verification.
I have my verification with my neocities page, on tkz.one, misskey.social and …

Adapting Public Personas: A Multimodal Study of U.S. Legislators' Cross-Platform Social Media Strategies
Weihong Qi, Anushka Dave, Ling Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10720

Adapting Public Personas: A Multimodal Study of U.S. Legislators' Cross-Platform Social Media Strategies
Current cross-platform social media analyses primarily focus on the textual features of posts, often lacking multimodal analysis due to past technical limitations. This study addresses this gap by examining how U.S. legislators in the 118th Congress strategically use social media platforms to adapt their public personas by emphasizing different topics and stances. Leveraging the Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for fine-grained text and image analysis, we examine 540 legislators personal website …