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Tim Apple
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Tinkerer building small, useful software for Linux and for people who like to write. Rune, Bahá'í Reader, Linkguard and more. Bahá'í, Warcraft fan, East Texas.
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Why I built Persistwise: the Wayback Machine only saves what someone asks it to save, so I wanted a stubborn librarian that asks for every post in your RSS feed, pins a copy on IPFS, and keeps one more.

https://blog.ninepointlabs.com/2026/10/persistwise-launch/

#IndieWeb #Blogging
Persistwise: writing that outlasts the platform
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.
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October 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Fixed a sneaky bug in Autonomix CLI. Our ideas repo ships a package called idea, so the installed check never found it and the app got reinstalled on every update. Now it reads the real package name from the downloaded file and saves it. It ships in the next release.

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autonomix-cli: install apps straight from GitHub Releases
A terminal utility, written in Go, that installs and manages applications directly from GitHub Releases, and tells you when a new release lands.
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October 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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New on My Azeroth Life: the Vilebranch laid a fog over Numazon to hide what they were doing to the Witherbark. It hid Burrly instead. Eight captives walk out alive, and the mist still doesn't lift.

myazerothlife.com/2026/10/burrly-numazon-crypt

#WoWForever #Warcraft #worldofwarcraft
Painted scene in thick grey mist: a white-haired Kul Tiran warrior in heavy shoulder armor, holding a spiked mace, stands beside a red-haired Amani troll in teal armor. They face a stone crypt carved with a great troll face, its doorway glowing purple, as hunched Witherbark captives limp out into the fog.
October 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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The My Azeroth Life podcast is now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It's two episodes a week following a few Tauren through Azeroth, one in Retail and one in WoW Forever. Good company for a long drive or a sink full of dishes.

myazerothlife.com/podcast

#WoWForever #Warcraft #worldofwarcraft
My Azeroth Life · My Azeroth Life
Tales told by the fire from a reborn Azeroth. An old lorewalker opens his ledger and reads the true chronicles of real World of Warcraft characters: the roads they walked, the friends they found, the gold they earned and the trouble they wandered into. Pour some tea and stay a while.
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October 30, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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In common fashion, after I fought the battle that is name reservation, I came up with a whole new plan on characters and names. Now I will fight that battle on the 4th. #wowforever #warcraft
October 30, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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I've archived Rune, my AI word processor for Linux. WordCraft, an open-source Rust word processor from the ArtCraft team, already does what Rune set out to do and more. Bring your own AI assistant via CLI or MCP.

Try it: https://getartcraft.com/apps/wordcraft #linux #opensource
Sunsetting Rune, and why I'm writing in WordCraft now
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.
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October 29, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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New on My Azeroth Life: Dawnbrisket, the Tauren cook who fed the Sunwalkers after their dawn drums, finds the Light in his hands, reaches Quel'Thalas late, takes up Astalor's hunts, and gets jumped four times in Fairbreeze. The sun rises every morning.

#worldofwarcraft #warcraft
The Sunwalker at Fairbreeze
Dawnbrisket, a Sunwalker camp cook left behind from the Siege of the Sunwell, reaches Quel'Thalas, takes up Astalor's hunts, and gets jumped four times in Fairbreeze.
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October 29, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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My Azeroth Life Podcast question: the show follows several characters, with a Retail and a Forever episode each week. Would you rather get one weekly show with everyone's stories, or a short episode per character, maybe one a day? #warcraft #wowforever #azeroth #podcasts
October 29, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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The My Azeroth Life podcast is finally on Spotify. If Spotify is where you listen, you can follow the show there now. #worldofwarcraft #wowforever

https://open.spotify.com/show/5QJHmd1LwTvuDzk0ZWI5D4
My Azeroth Life (Podcast)
Podcast · Tim Apple · Tales told by the fire from a reborn Azeroth. An old lorewalker opens his ledger and reads the true chronicles of real World of Warcraft characters.
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October 29, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Small Linkguard detail I like: when it looks up a Wayback copy for a dead link, only captures that came back 2xx count. So it won't swap your broken link for an archived 404 page. Free GitHub Action for Jekyll, Hugo and folderblog sites.
Linkguard: link checker for static sites
A free GitHub Action that checks outbound links in Jekyll, Hugo and folderblog sites and finds Wayback Machine snapshots for dead ones.
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October 29, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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StoryTracker, the free WoW addon for Forever and Retail, now takes a screenshot at each story moment and logs what happened and where. Every kind of shot can be switched off.

https://blog.ninepointlabs.com/2026/10/storytracker-auto-screenshots/
StoryTracker takes its own screenshots now
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.
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October 28, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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New on My Azeroth Life: Burrly helps the Amani flee a lost Atal'Aman, carries three gnarldin heads up Akil'zon's mountain, and then simply jumps. The eagle answers.

myazerothlife.com/2026/10/burrly-akilzons-reach

#worldofwarcraft #warcraft
Burrly, a Kul Tiran warrior in heavy plate and a brown and gold cloak, seen from behind with white hair blowing, standing on a mossy carved troll temple ledge. Below him, misty forested mountains under a purple and orange sunset, with an eagle flying overhead.
October 28, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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New My Azeroth Life episode, our first WoW Forever show. The Mulgore Chronicler tells how three calves became Haymaker the Warrior, Bullseye the Hunter and Ruminant the Druid, before Forever launches Nov 4.

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#wowforever #warcraft
Three Tauren brothers standing in Mulgore at sunset: Haymaker with black fur and a mallet, Bullseye with white and grey fur and a bow, and Ruminant, tan-brown with a braided beard and a glowing staff.
October 28, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Have a #WoWForever episode in the works for the MyAzerothLife pod, wondering if I should just put it up or wait till my set traditional release day which would be Sunday? What do y'all think?
October 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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The Cudsong brothers' origin story is up, before WoW Forever launches Nov 4. A family that sings to the kodo, Haymaker and his hammer, Bullseye keeping his distance, and Ruminant chewing it all over. myazerothlife.com/2026/10/cudsong-brothers #wowforever #warcraft
Painted illustration of three Tauren brothers on a grassy plain in Mulgore at sunset, with red mesas and a carved totem behind them. Left, Haymaker: black fur and mane, holding a big wooden mallet wrapped in green bands. Middle, Bullseye: white and grey fur, orange-brown vest, holding a bow. Right, Ruminant: tan-brown fur with braided beard, holding a staff glowing green.
October 28, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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And the last of the Cudsong brothers: Ruminant, the Druid, headed for the PvP server. He's the thoughtful one of the three. He'd tell you he's just chewing things over. WoW Forever, Nov 4.

#wowforever #warcraft
WoW screenshot of Ruminant Cudsong, a brown-furred Tauren druid with long brown hair, a braided beard and curved horns, wearing a red and tan robe with tooth trim and holding a small dagger, standing on a dirt road in front of orange mesas.
October 28, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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Next up is Bullseye Cudsong, Haymaker's brother and the Hunter of the family. Pale mane, steady aim, and he'd rather sort out his problems from a safe distance. See you in WoW Forever on Nov 4.

#wowforever #warcraft
WoW screenshot of Bullseye Cudsong, a white and grey furred Tauren hunter with a long pale mane and wide horns, wearing an orange vest and baggy tan trousers and holding a weapon, standing on a dirt road in front of orange mesas.
October 28, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Meet Haymaker Cudsong, Tauren Warrior and the first of three Cudsong brothers I'm bringing to WoW Forever when it launches Nov 4. He packed a big hammer and the attitude to match.

#wowforever #warcraft
WoW screenshot of Haymaker Cudsong, a black-furred Tauren warrior with long dark hair, curved horns and brown leather trousers with green trim, holding a large stone mallet, standing on a dirt road in front of orange mesas.
October 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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The fight to get in a server for name reservations is real! #wowforever #warcraft
October 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Worth knowing about Persistwise: the first check takes in every post your feed lists right then, not only what you publish from now on. Whatever is in your RSS today gets a Wayback snapshot and an IPFS copy on day one. 30 days free, no card.

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Persistwise — writing that outlasts the platform
Persistwise archives RSS posts to the Wayback Machine and IPFS so writing outlasts the platform.
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October 27, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Omostrich 0.3.3: "Always allow" now covers one Nostr event kind instead of everything, and DM prompts show who's on the other end. 0.3.2 strips hidden metadata from cached profile pictures.

https://blog.ninepointlabs.com/2026/10/omostrich-0-3-3/
Omostrich 0.3.3: tighter signing grants and safer profile pictures
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.
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October 27, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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New Laotou chapter. Tranquillien turns out to be full of Twilight's Blade cultists, including three people the town trusted. He tears down the pamphlets, carries frightened elves out of burning houses, then heads for Windrunner Village.

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The Traitors of Tranquillien
The pamphlets were the first thing to burn. They always are. Laotou walked into Tranquillien at dusk to find the Twilight's Blade nailing its gospel to every post and doorframe in town.
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October 27, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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A tip for fm-cli, my terminal client for Fastmail: it keeps your mail and message bodies in a local SQLite cache, so you can read and write drafts with no connection at all. Back online, fm-cli sync pushes the queued changes up. Nice on a train or bad hotel Wi-Fi.

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fm-cli: Fastmail from the terminal
A small Go client for Fastmail's JMAP API: a full-screen terminal mail app, scriptable commands that print JSON, and a live watch over Fastmail's push connection.
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October 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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omaforge 0.2.8 is out: safer uninstall, damaged config files no longer crash it or get overwritten, the window fits half a screen, and clearer error messages. A fixes release from a full QA pass.

https://blog.ninepointlabs.com/2026/10/omaforge-0-2-8/
omaforge 0.2.8: fixes from a full QA pass
omaforge is the World of Warcraft addon manager for Linux and Omarchy.
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October 26, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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folderblog 0.2.10 adds optional podcast download stats with OP3, the free, open-source stats service. Add one analytics_prefix line to blog.toml and your episodes are counted, with no account to create. It's off by default, so existing feeds don't change.
folderblog 0.2.10: podcast download stats with OP3
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.
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October 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM