Jon Henshaw

An industry designed to absorb all of your attention has spawned a new industry that charges you to remove those things from your life. But as I have done, simply deleting the apps from your phone seems to work pretty well and costs you nothing. As a bonus, you get your time back to do more […]

Meta has infinite resources. They even have their own AI if they wanted to use that for coding (which I'm sure they already do). Yet, they can't finish basic user-friendly fediverse interoperability to save their life.

<3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2AoYIKwJqM

When I started with #ActivityPub for #WordPress, it was a small experiment. Now almost 4 out of 10 #Fediverse servers are WordPress sites, and it is still growing, slowly but steadily. Come and join us @activitypub.blog 🎉 https://fedidb.com/software?st=servers

In the wake of the compromise of the eMudhra Intermediate CA, we strongly encourage all Mastodon administrators to make sure their systems are up-to-date. For those using our official Mastodon container images, we just rebuilt them (with the same tags) so they contain the latest updates to the […]

People doing the good work. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/a-difficult-line-meet-the-editors-tackling-wikipedias-arms-trade-pages

Just in case you weren't already aware, Peter Thiel is fucking insane. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1014252/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-analysis

There's nothing quite like the subtle rage felt when driving behind a new Tesla owner using Autopilot and having to deal with their long complete stops at a stop signs that no reasonable person would do because they haven't found the "drive like you're not an asshole" setting yet.

I sure do wish I was in Australia right now so I could see Mountain Boy in concert. https://www.mtboy.net/ #Music

New Nozzle research shows Google has been serving rank trackers normal-looking SERPs with the results swapped out, and 8.4% of SERPs have come back poisoned since September 13. https://coywolf.com/news/seo/google-is-feeding-rank-trackers-poisoned-serps-with-swapped-results-nozzle-finds/ #SEO

If someone asks you why they should join the Fediverse.. If any local politician, library, park, or museum asks you why they should be on the Fediverse.. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/meta-x-no-kings-elections-protests-midterms-free-speech-us-brazil/ The big platforms have […]

Choosing to live in the moment is far more fulfilling than constantly performing for others. We've allowed smartphones and social media to ruin the simple joy of being fully immersed in the experience […]

#Mastodon is getting a new look in our upcoming 5.0 release. We wrote a bit more about our design process and how we approach community input. If you’re on mastodon.social you will see the new design tomorrow, on Tuesday. We rely on your feedback! […]

Balcony Illusion — by Oakoak in Paris, France 🇫🇷 https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/10/street-art-that-make-people-smile/ #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

You now have more options to customize your profile page. Click Arrange in the top right on your page to change the layout, customize widgets, and create your own website. You can also make stickers and attach them to your page. It's cute, check it out!!! #Inkwell

No matter how hard I try to mimic cat sounds to my cats, they either ignore me or look at me wondering why I'm acting like an idiot.

I’m sure there’s plenty more disturbing stuff left in there.

Picea abies (Norway spruce). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/1259/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies #plants #roots #illustration

Nymphaea alba (white water-lily). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/821/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea_alba #plants #roots #illustration

My cats LOVE watching falling leaves. It’s pretty fun to watch. They’re so manic.

This is Geoff, the youngest of our many daily Goldfinch visitors. Geoff isn't afraid, he lets you get to within feet without being flustered. Usually we find Geoff having a sleep on our bird bath. Today he was just chilling on the garden wall. We do like Geoff […] [Original post on ohai.social]

The #RSS Universe — Readers, Tools & Standards https://toolbox.rss.here.now/

Coywolf Pack updates for @cloudflare's EmDash 1.3: ◾ Fixed admin styles for EmDash 1.3 ◾ New redirects replace cached pages instantly ◾ AI training opt-out now uses EmDash’s native setting ◾ Robots page shows AI training status ◾ Link Manager scans only save changed links […]

Just took advantage of early voting. What’s nice about voting in the U.S. now is that only you and Palantir know who you voted for. /s

I showed my wife the suction cup and flying flippity-doo Tesla Roadster video, and she LOL'd so hard because it was so cool and stupid at the same time. That was the correct response.

One can get some decent pictures with a very ordinary lens (55-210). The hit rate is definitely lower, though. Here are some birds that were new to me. Again from the Axios Delta. #Birds

Lexica Ultralegible builds on the Braille Institute's Atkinson Hyperlegible with 589 glyphs per font, support for 102 languages, standard ligatures, updated kerning, and an alternative zero, and it's free under the Open Font License […]

Talk about losing the plot. Meanwhile, @Mastodon is just trying to be the best decentralized social media platform it can be, where people can share and connect with other people who have similar interests. You know, as an actual social network would and should do.

I love my @Mastodon integration with @recollect. Every time I bookmark something on Mastodon, it creates a bookmark note in the background on Recollect and embeds the post and makes the text in the embed searchable in the app.

Excited to share my latest piece with Gravesite Media, where I talk about the fact that you cannot register a domain for longer than 10 years. Which is kind of a problem when you die. https://gravesite.media/p/your-website-should-outlive-you-the-case-for-forever-domains

I woke up surprised, in a good way, to discover that Roger Montti had written about my new @cloudflare EmDash plugin, @coywolf Pack, which is free for anyone to use. The plugin is open source, free, and private (no telemetry from me). And while it feature-packed, You only turn on and use the […]

One of the best humans I know is a disabled musician who cannot afford the materials to build a vocal booth. Please consider helping him build one so he can finish his vocals at home. More details about the project and him are at: https://gofund.me/7c7c0d557 #Music #Disability

One of the best humans I know is a disabled musician who cannot afford the materials to build a vocal booth. Please consider helping him build one so he can finish his vocals at home. More details about the project and him are at: https://gofund.me/7c7c0d557 #Music #Disability

I just updated the @recollect changelog with another large list of updates from the past few months. https://notes.recollect.fyi/share/nz1oJucQ #IndieDev #Productivity #PWA

My modest collection of country highpoints now includes Mount Korab, which is the joint highpoint of North Macedonia and Albania. We went for a quick jaunt up Korab in August. https://patricklam.ca/post/20261003-korab/ Fewer birds in this post than I'd thought […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

“Gruber’s framing on the issue seems to suggest that Twitter circa 2009 is the ideal. But what if that moment has genuinely passed?” https://tedium.co/2026/10/12/x-social-media-monoliths-critique/

NBC with their anti-web, anti-user, self-serving bullshit enshittification approach to video on their mobile site. It’s all just so shortsighted.

Instant regret after eating Schlotzsky’s Jalapeño potato chips and then reading the ingredients on the back of the bag. Imitation colored bits! Bioengineered food!!

Earlier this year (January 2026), I had an enjoyable conversation with Jeremy Rivera about SEO, AI, culture, and building products. While Google and AI has changed a lot since then, I think most of what we talked about still holds true. If any of that interests you, check it out on YouTube […]

Art amidst resilience. This is a beautiful visual story amongst the tragic foreign policies that made it happen. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2026/oct/09/candlelit-theatre-havana-in-pictures

What a great read! https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet/read

Misinformation: false information spread without intent to harm. Disinformation: false information intentionally spread to manipulate truth and facts to bring about a particular outcome. Bisinformation: information about 1990s Scottish indie rock band Bis.

If you too are waiting patiently for your old website or blog to show up on Classic Web, feel free to make some suggestions as a comment here. I (i.e. @ricmac) don't choose the items — I just click yes or no — but I can influence The Machine by feeding it more data.

Senecio abrotanifolius. https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/759/ #plants #roots #illustration

Alyssum ovirense. https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/874/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssum_ovirense #plants #roots #illustration

Holy shit.

"We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration." And there are a lot of them. https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/

The introverted plant.