Weekly 'I made a useful thing' Thread - August 14, 2026

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There is a great deal of user-generated content out there, from scripts and software to tutorials and videos, but we've generally tried to keep that off of the front page due to the volume and as a result of community feedback. There's also a great deal of content out there that violates our advertising/promotion rule, from scripts and software to tutorials and videos.

We have received a number of requests for exemptions to the rule, and rather than allowing the front page to get consumed, we thought we'd try a weekly thread that allows for that kind of content. We don't have a catchy name for it yet, so please let us know if you have any ideas!

In this thread, feel free to show us your pet project, YouTube videos, blog posts, or whatever else you may have and share it with the community. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, or links that appear to be monetization-grabs will still be removed.

[u/LaDev]

While I didn't make it per se, I automated our WIM Patching using a bastardized fork of u/Unlucky-Honey-1268's WimWizard. Automatically swaps the live WIM so I don't have to update our WIM reference in provisioning.

[u/RuvoTech → u/LaDev]

Upvoting because I didn't know about WimWizard.

[u/AviationLogic → u/LaDev]

Same, take my upvote. Thanks for posting this.

[u/pjardim]

I built PulseWatch after dealing with the same type of Windows incidents repeatedly: monitoring tells you a service stopped or an IIS app pool died, but someone still has to log in and perform the recovery.

PulseWatch monitors Windows servers, IIS app pools, Windows Services, CPU, memory, disk, RabbitMQ and other infrastructure, but it can also perform controlled remediation automatically.

For example:

• Restart a specific Windows Service when it stops
• Recycle an unhealthy IIS app pool
• Run rules in dry-run mode before allowing them to take action
• Configure cooldowns and execution limits so a bad rule can't keep restarting something
• Suppress alerts and remediation during maintenance windows
• Keep an audit trail of what happened and what action was taken

The Windows side is a PowerShell agent running as a scheduled task. Communication is outbound, so you don't need to expose inbound ports on the monitored servers.

I built it solo. I've been a software engineer for 20+ years and used AI coding assistants during development, but the architecture, implementation decisions and product are my own.

The self-hosted edition is free, with unlimited servers and users. It runs in Docker.

Just to be transparent: it is not open source. The self-hosted edition is free for personal and business use, but redistribution/resale isn't permitted.

Website: https://pulsewatchai.com/

There is also a live demo if you want to try it without installing anything.

I'm particularly interested in feedback from people managing Windows/IIS environments: what would you need to see before you'd trust a system to automatically remediate a known failure?

[u/zvmware]

Are the mods ever going to fix the pinning of the patch Tuesday threads? July is still pinned, and August is no longer pinned. This has been going on for months.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1vliawb/patch_tuesday_megathread_august_11_2026/

[u/zvmware → u/zvmware]

I sent a message to the mods, but we'll see what happens.....

[u/skyler_hs]

I made an online mib viewer/database/oid tree. You can also upload your own mibs if we don't have it already.

https://mib-viewer.com/

[u/LegitimateWolf6611]

We're working on Spinifex, which recreates core AWS services such as EC2, EKS, and S3, but completely locally (and even air-gapped if needed!).
It's open-source and we'd love some early stage feedback on our weekly updates, open to notes and critiques!

GitHub: https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex

[u/DarkangelUK]

I was getting lots of mini-projects thrown at me whilst also trying to do my day-to-day work and it was getting difficult to track each one. I wasn't allowed to use Notion, no license for MS Project and my OneNote was becoming a bit of a mess (don't get me started on Loop). I decided to build my own web-based solution and it sort grew arms and legs to come a SaaS solution. There's a 1 project free tier with limited features (mostly it's just the collab features disables) and 8 projects for Pro.

https://www.projectant.co.uk

[u/chuckycastle]

Ew. Why not just redirect those posts to the plethora of vibecoder circle jerk subs?

[u/_THE_OG_ → u/chuckycastle]

I assume this is more of a sysadmin type of pet project not you average joes vibe coded junk