Founded by Jon Henshaw, Coywolf focuses on modern web technologies and online marketing strategies to help technologists and entrepreneurs adapt and thrive in an ever-changing digital landscape.
Coywolf Contact
The first application created with Coywolf's minimalist PWA platform is Coywolf Contact, a web-native CRM focused on efficiency and speed. The PWA supports keyboard shortcuts, offline mode, third-party integrations, and is free to use.
SEO, performance, and webmaster insights
- Best way to sell domains without marketplace fees
- Mobile-first UX considerations: Highlights from a redesign
- Coywolf Contact: A minimalist PWA contact manager
- Open Graph Checker: Chrome extension for previewing social sharing metadata
- How to use iconography to inform readers about external links
- How to create a free URL shortener like Bitly and TinyURL with your own domain
- How to add QR codes to WordPress
- Google ❤️ emojis: How to bring more attention to your search snippets 👋
- How to add VideoObject Schema structured data to Cloudflare Stream videos in WordPress
- Interview with Dom Hodgson, Founder of Little Warden
Web technology and marketing news
- Google shifts focus toward creators with new support for profile pages and forums
- Shopify launches AI-driven marketplace to compete against Amazon
- Fathom Analytics adds dynamic event and goal tracking
- Google allows sites to opt out of training its LLMs for GenAI
- Mark Zuckerberg explains why Threads is joining the fediverse
- Mastodon overhauls search and improves its UX
- Meta renews commitment to make Threads part of the fediverse
- Ex-VICE journalists launch 404 Media, a new reader-supported tech media business
Software, product, and book reviews
- ReMarkable 2 is the best paper-like tablet for sketching and notes
- The best GA4 alternative is Fathom Analytics
- Level Bolt is a HomeKit-enabled smart lock that works with existing deadbolts
- Linkpop is a free link in bio page with Shopify Checkout
- How to secure macOS, iOS, and iPadOS on a public WiFi network
- Best way to backup your Mac
- ‘Product-Led SEO’ is a blueprint for leveraging SEO for organic growth
- Little Warden is an essential site monitoring tool for publishers and agencies
- Memberful is the best membership solution for WordPress and beyond
- YubiKey has the best hardware security keys for two-factor authentication (2FA)
Web technology and marketing videos
- Fun with dry ice in a bath tub
- Interview with Hugo Gameiro, founder of Masto Host
- Interview with YouTube creator and solopreneur Mark Ellis
- Stanford Seminar: Can We Mitigate Cryptocurrencies’ Externalities
- The reMarkable 2 form factor and user interface
- Open Graph Checker
- Contacts by Coywolf
- 10 ways Mastodon is better than X (previously Twitter)
- The story of Napkinisms
- How to connect Mastodon to Buffer
Coywolf newsletter by Jon Henshaw
- All things (mostly) search that are goog enough
- The most unlikely of heroes
- The writer’s block
- Should you delete your content for SEO?
- Thoughts on Threads
- How to have your GA and eat it too
- AI Nauseam and other stuff that’s actually interesting
- What will you create this year?
- ‘Sans Style’ and goodbye 🦤
- The joy of web surfing 🏄
Coywolf blog
- The app that became a platform
- The case against comments
- 2021 recap: ending the Pro membership, buying a dot com, and restarting app development
- 2020 recap: the past, present, and future
- ATTN: Digital marketers and webmasters, storefronts and restaurants need our help
- Should your company practice transparency?