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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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-...

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...

fixed that for you

@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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

@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

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

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

🚨 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. 👇

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

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...

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

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

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

While many SEOs attempt to rebrand SEO for AI and write verbosely about the complexities of how it works, optimizing for Google's AI experiences isn't much different from how effective SEO is done today. coywolf.com/news/seo/goo... #SEO

Using a virtual private network (VPN) at home will help protect your privacy from ISPs and ad trackers that fingerprint and target you online. coywolf.com/news/product... #Privacy