Opening the lab

Why WiestLab exists, and what you will actually find here.

Hey — I’m Siekwie. This is WiestLab: a public notebook for the things I build and the weird corners I wander into while building them.

I’ve been coding since I was fourteen, mostly for myself, friends, or pure curiosity. A lot of that time goes into tools and apps: simulators, desktop apps, small web services. Not just prototypes that never leave a folder.

What this site is

  • Apps: RepoEasy, FriendsShare and MarkItDown, the three I host and run as products.
  • Projects: other tools that are actually built and usable.
  • Notes: field notes. Funny failures welcome. Marketing fluff not so much.

What this site is not

Not every half-open editor window in my DEV folder. I keep a lot of sketches. Most of them stay sketches. WiestLab is for the stuff worth talking about — and for writing about how it got there.

Work I do for other brands lives in its own rooms. This one is personal.

How to follow along

More notes incoming. Some will be about tools still mid-flight. I’ll try not to pretend a title screen is a finished product.

All notes