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Coywolf

@coywolf.social

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Founded by Jon Henshaw, Coywolf focuses on modern web technologies and online marketing strategies to help technologists and entrepreneurs adapt and thrive in an ever-changing digital landscape. Maker of minimalist notes app recollect.fyi

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 23/05/2026

@coywolf note: After upgrading to WordPress 7.0, custom Classic theme styles disappear entirely from the Post editor, leaving unstyled text and browser defaults, though a fix is available. coywolf.com/notes/wordpress-7-break… #WordPress

WordPress 7 breaks Classic theme post edit styles; here's how to fix it

After upgrading to WordPress 7.0, custom Classic theme styles disappear entirely from the Post editor, leaving unstyled text and browser defaults, though a fix is available.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 31/03/2026

TinyStart is a fast, minimalist launcher for macOS by @nileane.fr that focuses on the essentials: opening apps, folders, links, and search engines. coywolf.com/news/product... #Productivity #MacOS

'TinyStart' is the Spotlight Search alternative I've always wanted

TinyStart is a fast, minimalist launcher for macOS that focuses on the essentials: opening apps, folders, links, and search engines.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 03/03/2026

@joinmastodon.org.web.brid.gy now has an official share button for sites coywolf.com/news/social-...

Mastodon now has an official share button for sites

The share button solves the problem of Mastodon users being on unique servers. It can also be customized and dynamically generated.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 28/02/2026

FAIR will no longer focus on WordPress and will instead invest its resources in TYPO3. If you want to keep the feature from the FAIR plugin that serves avatars locally rather than from Gravatar, you can use a new standalone plugin, thanks to @floridanorcross.bsky.social coywolf.com/news/content...

FAIR quits WordPress, but one of its best features remains as a standalone plugin

Joost de Valk announced that FAIR will no longer focus on WordPress and will instead invest its resources in TYPO3. Those who no longer want to use FAIR's connector plugin but still want the feature t...

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 17/02/2026

I've switched to Current for my RSS reader. It does away with unread counts, and puts the focus on pleasurable reading without any phantom obligations. It's a universal app that has been individually optimized for each screen type (mobile, tablet, and desktop). Check it out: www.currentreader.app

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Current - A River of Reading

Current rethinks RSS for the modern reader. Your feeds flow like a river. No inbox anxiety, no unread counts. Just beautiful reading.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 16/02/2026

Customers of Fathom Analytics can now connect to and associate Google Search Console data with their sites, and report on Google referrer data directly in their dashboard. coywolf.com/news/content... #Privacy #GA4 #Analytics

Fathom, a privacy-first GA4 alternative, adds Google Search Console (GSC) integration

Customers of Fathom Analytics can now connect to and associate Google Search Console data with their sites, and report on Google referrer data directly in their dashboard.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 14/02/2026

AISI research shows that AI can assist with basic tasks in the workplace but falls short on tasks that require higher-order thinking. coywolf.com/news/product... #AI

New study reveals where AI excels and fails in the workplace

Research by AISI shows that AI can assist with more basic tasks in the workplace, but falls short on tasks that require higher-order thinking.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 07/02/2026

There's finally a device that securely connects all your devices to your home internet while traveling, without configuring a VPN. coywolf.com/reviews/prod... #Privacy #Travel

The UniFi Travel Router makes securely connecting to your home network while away a breeze

There's finally a device that securely connects all your devices to your home internet while traveling, without configuring a VPN.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 05/02/2026

How sites are making an offline connection with their audience through an old medium. coywolf.com/newsletter/h...

How brands, publishers, and creatives are using paper to connect with audiences offline

How sites are making an offline connection with their audience through an old medium.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 02/02/2026

Why not learn while you also doom scroll? This demonstration of how social media algorithms work is also fun to use. coywolf.com/news/social-... #SocialMedia

You can now doom scroll Wikipedia

Why not learn while you also doom scroll? This demonstration of how social media algorithms work is also fun to use.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 22/01/2026

After the Publishing Maintenance Working Group surveyed publishers, developers, independent authors, ebook retailers, social DRM providers, conversion vendors, distributors, and readers, they determined that adding HTML to EPUB was too challenging for now. coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #EBooks

EPUB won't support HTML anytime soon, and here's why

After the Publishing Maintenance Working Group surveyed publishers, tool developers, reading system developers, independent authors, ebook retailers, social DRM providers, conversion vendors,…

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 20/01/2026

Google is adding the next-gen JXL image format back to Chrome after controversially removing it in 2022. Will re-adding it breathe new life into the format, or is it too late? coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #WebDev #Chrome #Google

JPEG XL (JXL) is coming back to Chrome

Google is adding the next-gen JXL image format back to Chrome after controversially removing it in 2022. Will re-adding it breathe new life into the format, or is it too late?

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 16/01/2026

Starlink quietly enabled third-party AI model training on its customers' personal data by default. Fortunately, there's a way to opt out. coywolf.com/news/startup... #Privacy #AI

Starlink updates ToS to allow AI model training with personal data

Starlink quietly enabled third-party AI model training on its customers' personal data by default. Fortunately, there's a way to opt out.

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Simon Harper @srhdesign.co.uk · 14/01/2026

🚨 Issue 190 of "Loop WP" is out now! In this week's newsletter about WooCommerce and WordPress: Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol signals a shift to agentic commerce, raising significant questions for e-commerce SEO, Shopify, and WooCommerce. Read the full issue below. 👇

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Issue #190 Loop WP

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol signals a shift to agentic commerce, raising significant questions for e-commerce SEO, Shopify, and WooCommerce.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 11/01/2026

With agentic AI at the OS level, DBs storing digital lives accessible to malware, unreliable and inaccurate steps in agentic tasks, and being opted-in without consent, Signal is asking companies to hold off until threats can be mitigated. coywolf.com/news/product... #AI #Privacy #InfoSec

'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare

With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent,…

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 06/01/2026

All major browsers now support the hidden=until-found attribute on the Details disclosure element, allowing visitors to search and auto-expand hidden text on pages without JavaScript. coywolf.com/news/seo/det... #WebDev #HTML

Details disclosure element can now auto-expand using the browser's find on page feature

All major browsers now support the hidden=until-found attribute on the Details disclosure element, allowing visitors to search and auto-expand hidden text on pages without JavaScript.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 03/01/2026

Managing apps and services on macOS with the command-line interface (CLI) tool Homebrew just got a lot easier with Taphouse, a graphical user interface (GUI) for the popular package manager. coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #WebDev #MacOS

Homebrew gets GUI with Taphouse

Managing apps and services on macOS with the command-line interface (CLI) tool Homebrew just got a lot easier with Taphouse, a graphical user interface (GUI) for the popular package manager.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 30/12/2025

BTW, for those who may have heard about this issue and were (correctly!) concerned (or, like me, *actively* pissed off): coywolf.com/news/productivity/firef…

Firefox is adding an AI kill switch

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Enzor-DeMeo, and then Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users th...

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 20/12/2025

SubGrid is a free, open-source tool that visualizes subscription costs to help manage monthly budget decisions more effectively. coywolf.com/news/product... #Budget #PersonalFinance #OpenSource

A free app to visualize your subscription costs

SubGrid is a free, open-source tool that visualizes subscription costs to help manage monthly budget decisions more effectively.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 18/12/2025

I was pleased to read Jake Archibald's social posts on Mastodon about Mozilla adding an AI kill switch. It's precisely what I wished Google had done with Google Chrome, and what prompted me to switch to the Helium browser (helium.computer) coywolf.com/news/product...

Firefox is adding an AI kill switch

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users that there will be an AI...

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 12/12/2025

Google deemed Preferred Sources a success due to high usage and doubling of traffic to sites from Top Stories. Google announced that the feature is being rolled out to all regions and languages. coywolf.com/news/seo/goo... #SEO #News #Publishing

Google Search expands Preferred Sources for Top Stories globally

Google deemed Preferred Sources a success due to high usage and doubling of traffic to sites from Top Stories. Google announced that the feature is being rolled out to all regions and languages.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 29/11/2025

In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse. coywolf.com/news/social-... #Fediverse #Interview

Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse

In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge...

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 28/11/2025

The privacy-first GA4 alternative, Fathom Analytics, added the ability to block and exclude unwanted referral traffic. coywolf.com/news/startup... #Analytics #Spam

You can now block specific spam referrers in Fathom Analytics

The privacy-first GA4 alternative, Fathom Analytics, added the ability to block and exclude unwanted referral traffic.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 17/11/2025

Charts in Google Search Console (GSC) can now have custom annotations added to them to highlight events that may affect search performance. coywolf.com/news/seo/goo...

Google adds custom annotations to Search Console

Charts in Google Search Console (GSC) can now have custom annotations added to them to highlight events that may affect search performance.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 11/11/2025

The Mastodon engineering team added SocialMediaPosting Schema.org markup to version 4.5 of its software to optimize social posts for search engines and other systems. coywolf.com/news/social-... #SocialMedia #SEO

Mastodon's social posts are now optimized for Google Search

The Mastodon engineering team added SocialMediaPosting Schema.org markup to version 4.5 of its software to optimize social posts for search engines and other systems.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 07/11/2025

The release of Mastodon 4.5 introduces a new "Quote post" feature designed to give users control over who can quote their posts. coywolf.com/news/social-...

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 31/10/2025

The new Alertmouse tool monitors people and brand mentions as simply as Google Alerts, but with better results and reporting that are similar to those from expensive, contract-based enterprise solutions, at a more affordable price. coywolf.com/news/social-...

Alertmouse is a Google Alerts alternative with better monitoring, filtering, and insights

The new Alertmouse tool monitors people and brand mentions as simply as Google Alerts, but provides better results and reporting similar to those from expensive contract-based enterprise solutions.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 29/10/2025

Helium provides an alternative to Google Chrome for Mac users who don't want AI Mode and Gemini forced into the browser and prefer privacy over Google's data collection. coywolf.com/news/product...

The best Chrome browser for Mac isn’t Chrome, it’s Helium

Helium provides an alternative to Google Chrome for Mac users who don't want AI Mode and Gemini forced into the browser and prefer privacy over Google's data collection.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/10/2025

fixed that for you

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 27/10/2025

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social, @signal.org's President, published an open letter on social media addressing concerns over Signal's reliance on AWS. coywolf.com/news/product...

President of Signal responds to AWS outage and user concerns

Meredith Whittaker, Signal's President, published an open letter on Mastodon addressing concerns over Signal's reliance on AWS.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 14/10/2025

The independent and privacy-focused email service Fastmail now has native desktop apps for accessing emails, calendars, contacts, and files. coywolf.com/news/product... #macOS #Windows #Linux #Email

Fastmail launches native desktop apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux

The independent and privacy-focused email service Fastmail now has native desktop apps for accessing emails, calendars, contacts, and files.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 13/10/2025

The newest version of Google Chrome displays AI features in the browser without any way to remove them. Fortunately, there's a workaround that will allow you to continue using Chrome without having to include the features imposed by Google. coywolf.com/guides/googl... #Google #AI #NoAI

Google forced Gemini and AI Mode into Chrome; here's how to remove it from the browser

The newest version of Google Chrome displays AI features in the browser without any way to remove them. Fortunately, there's a workaround that will allow you to continue using Chrome without having to...

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 03/10/2025

Until now, there hasn't been a Best Current Practice RFC IETF standard for how bots should crawl sites. The authors of a new Crawler Best Practices draft hope to fill that gap for bots and publishers. coywolf.com/news/seo/cra...

Crawler Best Practices draft seeks to standardize bot behavior for all bots on the web

Until now, there hasn't been a Best Current Practice RFC IETF standard for how bots should crawl sites. The authors of a new Crawler Best Practices draft hope to fill that gap for bots and publishers.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 28/09/2025

A fool-proof method by @jon.henshaw.me for displaying geo-targeted content that is easy to implement and can be optimized for Google Search. coywolf.com/guides/how-t... #SEO #WebDev #WordPress

How to show and hide geo-targeted content by country, state, city, or zip code

My fool-proof method for displaying geo-targeted content that is easy to implement and can be optimized for Google Search.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 25/09/2025

Cloudflare introduced new rules for the Robots Exclusion Protocol to help publishers specify how AI bots can access their content. coywolf.com/news/seo/pub... #AI #SEO

Publisher can now manage AI bot access with new 'Content Signals Policy' created by Cloudflare

Cloudflare introduced new rules for the Robots Exclusion Protocol to help publishers specify how AI bots can access their content.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 27/08/2025

The independent and privacy-focused email service @fastmail.com has updated its Progressive Web App to support offline access to emails, calendars, and contacts. 💪 coywolf.com/news/product... #Productivity #Email

Fastmail's webmail app now works offline, and it's glorious!

The independent and privacy-focused email service Fastmail has updated its Progressive Web App to support offline access to emails, calendars, and contacts.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 20/08/2025

Google Search previously had a more user-friendly process for displaying coupon codes for online products. It has now become too obscure, removing a step that previously helped buyers complete purchases with the discount. coywolf.com/news/ecommer... #Google #Ecommerce

Google's clippable coupons in search results lack a crucial buying step it once had

Google Search previously had a more user-friendly process for displaying coupon codes for online products. It has now become too obscure, removing a step that previously helped buyers complete purchas...

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 16/08/2025

I don't have ads, and I use a single-column layout to help readers focus on my sites. Besides being a better user experience, it is paying off in other ways, too. coywolf.com/blog/the-rew...

The rewards of respecting the reader's experience

Presenting content ad-free and in a single column helps readers focus and provides a better reading experience, resulting in higher quality conversions at the end of an article.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 14/08/2025

Searchers can now add sites as a preferred source to Google Search, which will display them more prominently in Top Stories when they publish fresh and relevant content related to the search query. coywolf.com/news/seo/goo... #SEO #Google

Google now lets you pick your favorite news sites for Top Stories

Searchers can now add sites as a preferred source to Google Search, which will display them more prominently in Top Stories when they publish fresh and relevant content related to the search query.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 04/08/2025

In this guide, I outline the WordPress settings and essential plugins used to make all of my sites performant and optimized for Google. coywolf.com/guides/confi... #WordPress

Configuring WordPress: The settings and plugins I use for optimal performance

In this guide, I outline the WordPress settings and essential plugins used to make all of my sites performant and optimized for Google.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 30/07/2025

MacPaw updated its popular CleanMyMac app with a new tool called Cloud Cleanup. The tool extends the app's file management and cleaning capabilities to cloud drives, with initial support for Google Drive, Microsoft's OneDrive, and Apple's iCloud Drive. coywolf.com/news/product... #Apple #Utilities

Cloud Cleanup removes unnecessary files and improves sync times on cloud drives

MacPaw updated its popular CleanMyMac app with a new tool called Cloud Cleanup. The tool extends the app's file management and cleaning capabilities to cloud drives, with initial support for Google Dr...

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 20/07/2025

@jon.henshaw.me got tired of his coffee and tea getting cold, so he tested using a self-heated mug and a mug warmer. He found that one of them was superior, and it's now what he uses every day to keep his hot drinks hot. coywolf.com/reviews/prod... #Review

Self-heating mugs versus mug warmers: which one is best?

I got tired of my coffee and tea getting cold, so I tested using a self-heated mug and a mug warmer. I found that one of them was superior, and it's now what I use every day to keep my hot drinks hot.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 14/07/2025

In the book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport explains why we feel like slaves to technology and how we can take control to live more intentional and meaningful lives. coywolf.com/reviews/book... #Book #Review #Technology #Productivity

'Digital Minimalism' will change your relationship with technology

In the book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport explains why we feel like slaves to technology and how we can take control to live more intentional and meaningful...

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 29/06/2025

After two decades of stagnation with the PNG image standard, it's back with a new version to rival the innovations made by WebP and AVIF. coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #WebDevelopment

New version of PNG to challenge AVIF and WebP for image dominance on the web

After two decades of stagnation with the PNG image standard, it's back with a new version to rival the innovations made by WebP and AVIF.

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Simon Harper @srhdesign.co.uk · 25/06/2025

🚨 Loop WP, Issue 163 is out now! This week in my newsletter about WordPress - WordPress has a rare chance to reform Five for the Future. All contributions matter, "code" or not. The next six months are critical for real change. 👇

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Issue #163 Loop WP

WordPress has a rare chance to reform Five for the Future. All contributions matter, "code" or not. The next six months are critical for real change.

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 22/06/2025

I've used @yoast.com for well over a decade, and it continues to play a critical role in how I technically optimize my sites for search engines. While I don't use or need all of its features, it still provides the ones I need most. coywolf.com/guides/yoast... #SEO #WordPress

Yoast SEO is a crucial plugin for WordPress: here's how I utilize it

I've used Yoast SEO for well over a decade, and it continues to play a critical role in how I technically optimize my sites for search engines. While I don't use or need all of its features, it still ...

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 08/06/2025

A pleasant surprise that came with the FAIR initiative is the ability to bypass Gravatar and upload and serve profile images directly from your WordPress site. 🙌 I was told that @floridanorcross.bsky.social is to thank for that. 💪 coywolf.com/news/web-dev...

You no longer have to use Gravatar on WordPress for avatars, thanks to FAIR

The new FAIR plugin allows uploading avatars to user accounts in WordPress and serving them locally, bypassing the requirement to host them on Gravatar.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 07/06/2025

WordPress admins will no longer be dependent on getting version, plugin, and theme updates from the centrally controlled WordPress dot org. coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #Federated #Decentralized #WordPress

FAIR initiative decentralizes WordPress updates

WordPress admins will no longer be dependent on getting version, plugin, and theme updates from the centrally controlled WordPress.org.

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 05/06/2025

Shopify notified customers using Linkpop that it was discontinuing its 'link in bio' service on July 7, 2025. coywolf.com/news/ecommer...

Shopify is shutting down Linkpop

Shopify notified customers using Linkpop that it was discontinuing its 'link in bio' service on July 7, 2025

Coywolf @coywolf.social · 01/06/2025

A new WordPress AI Team has been created to explore and coordinate AI projects across the WordPress ecosystem. coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #AI #WordPress

WordPress creates an AI Team to accelerate development

A new WordPress AI Team has been created to explore and coordinate AI projects across the WordPress ecosystem.