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Jon Henshaw
@jon.henshaw.me
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Endlessly curious and an early adopter of promising things. Educated in psychology and human development.

Creator of https://recollect.fyi notes app and founder of https://coywolf.com

My primary social network is Mastodon https://henshaw.social/users/jon
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diane.dianeduane.com
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/
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.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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coywolf.social
SubGrid is a free, open-source tool that visualizes subscription costs to help manage monthly budget decisions more effectively.

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#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.
coywolf.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
jon.henshaw.me
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)

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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.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bram.us
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.
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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coywolf.social
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.

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#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.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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coywolf.social
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.

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#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.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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coywolf.social
The privacy-first GA4 alternative, Fathom Analytics, added the ability to block and exclude unwanted referral traffic.

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#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.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
jon.henshaw.me
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
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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coywolf.social
Charts in Google Search Console (GSC) can now have custom annotations added to them to highlight events that may affect search performance.

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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.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing.

*A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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srhdesign.co.uk
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 👇
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
jon.henshaw.me
This was a pleasant surprise to stumble upon.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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coywolf.social
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.

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#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.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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coywolf.social
The release of Mastodon 4.5 introduces a new "Quote post" feature designed to give users control over who can quote their posts.

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November 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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surlyamy.bsky.social
Rooster mug. One of a kind. Hand-built. Stoneware. Just listed. Surly.Etsy.com
A big stoneware mug with a rooster design on it.
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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coywolf.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.

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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.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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coywolf.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.

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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.
coywolf.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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coywolf.social
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social, @signal.org's President, published an open letter on social media addressing concerns over Signal's reliance on AWS.

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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.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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coywolf.social
The independent and privacy-focused email service Fastmail now has native desktop apps for accessing emails, calendars, contacts, and files.

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#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.
coywolf.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
jon.henshaw.me
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.

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#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.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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coywolf.social
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.

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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.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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orbforge.bsky.social
🚀 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...
Introducing Orb Cloud - Orb Blog
Your new connectivity command center.
orb.net
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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coywolf.social
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.

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#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.
coywolf.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
jon.henshaw.me
Cloudflare introduced new rules for the Robots Exclusion Protocol to help publishers specify how AI bots can access their content.

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#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.
coywolf.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM