Attentive
Notice before deciding.
Tools for thingsthat grow, drift,and change.
Wetlabs makes practical software for keeping records around living systems, so slow changes stay visible and care has a history to work from.
The project shelf
Separate tools, held together by a way of working.
Fluxpoint and AxilDB solve different problems, but they share the same habits: careful records, visible context, light assistance, and usefulness that should still hold up years from now. The subjects change; the underlying work is the same: helping people understand evolving systems through better records.
Aquarium care and living systems
Fluxpoint
Preserves the history of an aquarium so care, water, livestock, and equipment changes can reveal patterns over time.
Explore Fluxpoint
Botanical collections and propagation
AxilDB
Preserves provenance and propagation history so plant collections can carry the stories and context they gather over time.
Explore AxilDBWhat Wetlabs is
A home for practical experiments.
Wetlabs projects begin as real tools built for real care work: tracking aquariums, organizing plants, and keeping notes that survive the week. When a tool proves useful, it gets refined, documented, and shared.
Legible
Make relationships visible.
Durable
Build for long use.
Design philosophy
Calm systems, honest edges.
01
Observe before automating
Understand the work before automating it.
02
Keep complexity legible
Show relationships without hiding the mess.
03
Preserve the history
Keep changes and choices easy to trace.
04
Reward long use
Let records become more useful with time.
Wetlabs on YouTube
Building in public.
The channel will collect development logs, design notes, project walkthroughs, and the small decisions that shape each tool over time.
Visit Wetlabs on YouTube (opens external site)Wetlabs development log
Development logs and walkthroughsAs videos are published, this will become a record of design choices, project progress, and what changes after real use.- Development logs
- Design decisions
- Project walkthroughs
Working approach
Built in contact with the real work.
Software here grows through use. Features stay only while they keep making records clearer, showing what changed, and helping the next revision make sense.
- Built from use
- Features earn their place
- Revision over perfection
- Clear about uncertainty
Support development
Help keep the work independent.
If these projects save you time or teach you something, GitHub and Ko-fi are simple ways to help keep the work independent.