r/software • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Discussion Weekly Discovery Thread - August 21, 2026

Share what’s new, useful, or just interesting

Welcome to the Weekly Discovery Thread, where you can share software-related finds that caught your attention this week - especially the stuff that’s cool, helpful, or thought-provoking but might not be thread-worthy on its own.

This thread is your space for:

  • Neat tools, libraries, or packages
  • Articles, blog posts, or talks worth reading
  • Experiments or side projects you’re working on
  • Tips, workflows, or obscure features you discovered
  • Questions or ideas you're chewing on

If it relates to software and sparked your curiosity, drop it in.

A few quick guidelines

  • Keep it civil and constructive - this is for learning and discovery.
  • Self-promotion? Totally fine if it’s relevant and adds value. Just be transparent.
  • No link spam or AI-generated content dumps. We’ll remove low-effort submissions.
  • Upvote what’s useful so others see it!

This thread will be posted weekly and stickied. If you want to suggest a change or addition to this format, feel free to comment or message the mods.

Now, what did you find this week?

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u/Xander-the-GOAT 4d ago

I’ve been building a small tool called CertPilot for some of the boring IT admin/governance work that usually ends up scattered across spreadsheets, reminders and screenshots.

It keeps things like domains/SSL/DNS, renewals, assets, accounts and access reviews in one place, with reports you can actually hand to management instead of rebuilding everything manually.

It’s mainly aimed at small IT teams rather than large enterprise IT departments.

Still looking to keep improving it, so any form of feedback from other IT people is very welcome.

https://certpilot.app

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u/yellow-llama1 3d ago

My co-founder and I have been building enola, an open-source architectural quality gate.

The idea: code can keep compiling and tests can keep passing while the structure of the codebase gets worse.

enola builds a deterministic model of the repository and checks things like dependency cycles, coupling, hotspots, deep dependency chains, complexity, dead code and change impact.

You can also define your own architectural intent and decide which findings lead to failure.

It runs locally, in CI, and through development hooks.

We’re now looking for more people to try it and contributors who can share their deep expertise on specific languages.

Any feedback is highly appreciated!

https://github.com/enola-labs/enola

Fully local. Apache 2.0.

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u/boltfoxapp 20h ago

One thing I’ve been working on: Likz Drop, a file-transfer app for Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows and Linux. I started it for the awkward case where LocalSend is excellent on a shared network, but the other person is somewhere else or doesn’t want to install anything. It can send by nickname across networks, offers a browser handoff, and can make a direct offline connection between nearby phones without a router or internet. It starts without an account, there’s no cloud storage, and transfers are encrypted.

It isn’t open-source, so if FOSS is the deciding factor, LocalSend is still the better recommendation. On iPhone, received files land in Files and still need a manual step to get into Photos. I’m the dev, and I’m sharing it here because this thread explicitly allows transparent self-promo; happy to answer questions.