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...

@andrewmarder.net 🙌 regarding Fastmail! andrewmarder.net/fastmail/

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

Absolutely loving the new GSC integration in Fathom Analytics!

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

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

Fathom Analytics has just updated its privacy-first GA4 alternative with the best site picker. It enables quick switching between sites using just the keyboard. 🙌 usefathom.com #UX #Analytics

My new favorite and extremely useful gadget from @ubiquiti.bsky.social

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

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

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

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

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

🚨 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. 👇

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

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

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

BTW, for those who may have heard about this issue and were (correctly!) concerned (or, like me, *actively* pissed off): https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/firefox-is-adding-an-ai-kill-switch/

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

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...

Current Status: having way too much fun with Scroll-Triggered Animations in Chrome 145 🤩 The thing you have to wrap your head around is that there are 2 ranges at play: an activation and an active range. Once activated the trigger won’t deactivate until the subject has left the active range.

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

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

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

In my free time, I've been *very* slowly building @recollect.fyi, a minimalist notes app I've always wanted. The developer whose been helping me make it just finished real-time collaboration. The app, which is a PWA and works on any device, is free to use if you want to try it out at recollect.fyi

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...

For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing. *A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅

1/12 - @beehiiv.com just dropped more features in one event than most platforms push in a year — and honestly, this changes the entire newsletter/content ecosystem. Here are the biggest updates creators actually need to know 👇

This was a pleasant surprise to stumble upon.

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

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-...

There are more of us than there are of them.

Rooster mug. One of a kind. Hand-built. Stoneware. Just listed. Surly.Etsy.com

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-...

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...

@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...

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

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

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...

🚀 Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Orb Cloud! Your command center for scalable, real-time connectivity monitoring. 👉 Start free by visiting cloud.orb.net or try out the full feature set (orb.net/plans). Read more about Orb Cloud on our blog: orb.net/blog/introdu...

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

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

All this stuff is just out here

TLDR; I (Joe) am changing the name of Hall Analysis to Cloud22 in an effort to streamline my service offerings into one unit. SEO Audits and consulting are still my core product though. cloud22.com/hall-analysi...

I just got my ticket for @techseoconnect.bsky.social in Durham, NC, December 4-5, and booked my flight and hotel. I attended last year and it was fantastic. I highly recommend going and hope to see you there! www.techseoconnect.com #SEO #Conference

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

This week features @emailexpertafrica.bsky.social, @goodemailcode.com, @jon.henshaw.me, @aliversonchicago.bsky.social, @spamresource.bsky.social, @beehiiv.com, @emailjay.bsky.social, @laurenemailgeek.bsky.social, @growthinreverse.com, and many more!

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

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...