Utility installer
PSForge
Desktop PowerShell editor for the paste-run-debug loop. Clean AI or web scripts, run with F5, inspect terminal output and PSScriptAnalyzer findings, then copy a debug bundle for the next iteration.
$ whoami
// 14 open-source tools for Windows admins. no cloud, no telemetry.
SwatLab
tools that respect your RAM & your privacy_
No cloud. No sign-in. No account. Every tool runs offline, keeps its state
local, and phones home to nobody — most as a single portable
.exe, the rest as a small signed
installer. MIT-licensed. Free forever.
offline-first no cloud MIT licensed no telemetry open source
cat ./flagship
▸ Featured Tool
LogSleuth
every log, one timeline.
Fast, cross-platform log file viewer and analyser. Recursively discovers log files, auto-detects formats via TOML profiles, and merges them into a unified colour-coded timeline with severity filtering, regex search, time-range queries, live tail, and CSV/JSON export.
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INFO 12:04:07.221 nginx GET /api/health 200 8ms2
INFO 12:04:07.884 app session f41f2 opened3
WARN 12:04:08.012 app retry 2/3 upstream timeout4
ERROR 12:04:08.240 worker job 9c2 failed: disk full5
INFO 12:04:08.301 systemd logsleuth --follow ./logsLogSleuth · 3 sources merged · 1,284,551 lines · regex: /timeout/ · 2 errors
ls ./tools --featured
Hand-picked
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Monitoring installer
QuickProbe
Lightweight desktop app for monitoring Windows and Linux servers. Real-time health probes via WinRM and SSH, one-click RDP launch, Active Directory scanning, and secure credential storage.
Utility installer
AllTheThings
Instant filename search for Windows. Reads the NTFS Master File Table directly to index millions of files in seconds, tails the USN change journal for live updates, and ships a rich query syntax — Boolean operators, wildcards, regex, size/date/attribute filters, and content search — all in a Tauri UI that runs without admin.
Analysis portable exe
DiskSleuth
Fast, visual disk space analyser for Windows. Parallel scanning, SpaceSniffer-style treemap, NTFS MFT fast-scan, stale file finder, and top-N largest files — all in a single portable executable.
Analysis portable exe
EventSleuth
Event Viewer replacement that doesn't freeze on large logs. Background-threaded queries, virtual scrolling for million-event channels, XPath filtering, and .evtx file import.
Utility installer
PSTInsight
Fast, modern viewer and exporter for Outlook PST files. Ground-up Rust rewrite built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript, using a read-only parser so Outlook, MAPI, and COM are not required.
tail ./articles
Field Notes
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Sysadmin
Parsing Every Log Format: The Timestamp Problem in LogSleuth
Every application writes logs differently, and timestamps are a disaster. Here's the 15-heuristic fallback chain LogSleuth uses to parse them, and why it has to exist.
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Reading the MFT Directly: How DiskSleuth Scans a Drive in Seconds
Walking the directory tree is slow. When elevated, DiskSleuth reads the NTFS Master File Table directly — a million files in a few seconds instead of minutes.
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What's Actually Holding This File? Two Approaches to Windows File Locks
The 'file in use' dialog tells you nothing useful. SMB locks and local process handles are completely different problems — most tools only solve one of them.
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