Jon Henshaw

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.

@joinmastodon.org.web.brid.gy now has an official share button for sites

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Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites There’s now an official “Share to Mastodon” widget.

Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites

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...

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

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Goodbye Gmail, Hello Fastmail! Why I switched from Gmail to Fastmail, and why Proton Mail didn't work for me.

@andrewmarder.net 🙌 regarding Fastmail!

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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.

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

Fathom Analytics dashboard showing the new GSC data including Clicks, Impressions, Clickthrough rate and Average position. You can filter donw to the page or guery term.

Absolutely loving the new GSC integration in Fathom 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.

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.

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#Privacy #GA4 #Analytics

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.

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

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#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. 🙌

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#UX #Analytics

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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#SocialMedia

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,…

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.

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#EBooks

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?

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?

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#WebDev #Chrome #Google

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.

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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#Privacy #AI

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.

🚨 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. 👇

'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,…

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.

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#AI #Privacy #InfoSec

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.

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.

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#WebDev #HTML

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.

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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#WebDev #MacOS

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...

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/

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.

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

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...

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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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 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.

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

I occasionally check in here just to make sure the house isn't on fire, but I'm primarily over at Mastodon, where it's way more lonely regarding industry peeps. 😆

To me, this is a version of enshittification. You initially make a great product available to everyone, they adopt it into their marketing stack, and then eventually price everyone out except those who can pay the most.

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...

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

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.

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

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#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

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.

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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