Release notes and build logs from Nine Point Labs: small, clear tools for Linux.
Tristan’s Addon is new: a free, open source Paladin companion for World of Warcraft: Forever. It knows Holy, Protection and Retribution, has dual spec from day one, and adds something its siblings don’t have: a real Battle section for PvP. Version 0.1.0 is out, the first release.
folderblog 0.2.11 puts posts in order by date and time, so several posts on the same day finally show up in the right order. The home page, archives, tag pages, feeds and the podcast list are all newest first by it.
Parzelle’s Addon is new: a free, open source Mage companion for World of Warcraft: Forever. Pick Arcane, Fire or Frost, and one window tells you what to cast, what to wear, where to quest, what to train and where you can teleport, all for your spec and your level. Version 0.1.0 is out today, the first release.
Bahá’í Reader, the offline prayer book and Writings reader for Linux, now reads from the source. Version 0.1.9 brings the official texts of the Bahá’í Reference Library at bahai.org into the English library, adds two big collections that weren’t in the app before, and makes the window happy at phone-like sizes.
Dogear is the reader for studying, made for Omarchy. Version 0.1.3 opens EPUB books, so it now reads, highlights and remembers your PDFs and EPUBs.
omaforge is the World of Warcraft addon manager for Linux and Omarchy. Version 0.2.9 lets you star addons, so you can bookmark one you haven’t installed and come back to it later.
Bahá’í Reader, the offline prayer book and Writings reader for Linux, now has a place to start the day. Version 0.1.8 adds a Today view that gathers the Badí‘ date, the sun, your obligatory prayer, the next Feast and Holy Day, the Fast and the passage of the day on one page. Everything is worked out on your machine; nothing is looked up online.
Rune is archived. WordCraft does what Rune set out to do and more, it’s open source, and it runs on Linux, so I’d rather point you there than compete with it.
StoryTracker is the World of Warcraft addon that keeps a record of your character’s adventures: quests, zones, levels, deaths, bosses, loot and more. It comes in two versions, one for WoW Forever and one for Retail. Yesterday’s releases (Forever 1.0.4 and 1.0.5, Retail 1.1.3 to 1.1.5) add automatic screenshots at the moments that make a good story, and make the addon easier to install with an addon manager.
Omostrich keeps your Nostr key on your own computer and signs for your apps from the Omarchy bar. Two releases landed this morning. Version 0.3.2 finishes the profile picture hardening that 0.3.1 started, and version 0.3.3 makes your signing permissions narrower and your approval prompts clearer, especially around direct messages.
omaforge is the World of Warcraft addon manager for Linux and Omarchy. Version 0.2.8 is a fixes release from a full QA pass, coming the same day as 0.2.7.
folderblog 0.2.10 adds one thing podcasters have been asking about: download numbers. If you publish a show with folderblog, you can now count how often your episodes are downloaded with OP3, the free, open-source podcast stats service.
omaforge is the World of Warcraft addon manager for Linux and Omarchy. Version 0.2.7 gets it ready for World of Warcraft: Forever, which launches on November 4.
Keep writing wherever you already do. Persistwise watches your RSS feed and keeps three copies of every new post. 30 days free, no card needed.
folderblog 0.2.9 is a fix release that came out of a full QA pass over this morning’s 0.2.8. That pass followed the published instructions step by step, the way a new user would, and the rough edges it found are fixed here. Most of it is podcast polish, plus a change that keeps your post addresses the same when you clone or copy a blog.
folderblog 0.2.8 is a small fix release on top of yesterday’s 0.2.7, the one that turned a blog folder into a podcast. If you tried folderblog podcast setup and it stopped at the “find it again” step, this is the release you want.
I play World of Warcraft most evenings, and for the last few weeks the game has been keeping a blog about it. Now that blog has a podcast too. My Azeroth Life tells the stories of my characters, and the My Azeroth Life podcast turns those stories into narrated episodes with music and sound effects. Both are published by folderblog, the small blog engine I make here at Nine Point Labs.
folderblog turns a folder of Markdown into a live blog the moment you save. Four releases since the last word here, 0.2.4 through 0.2.7, and the big one is 0.2.6: the same folder can now publish a podcast, with a proper feed, hosted audio, and a way for an AI agent to help without ever publishing on its own.
Omostrich keeps your Nostr key on your own computer and signs for your apps from the Omarchy bar. Version 0.3.1 is a small security release. It changes how the panel shows your profile picture and attachment previews, so a picture someone else controls can’t stall or overload the panel.
Last night Lez (lez@nostr.hu) left a reply that has stuck with me: