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EnglishWhat projects is Artur Piszek building and exploring?
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Artur Piszek lists three active projects on piszek.com: WP Knowledge, Oh My Lake!, and DoomToll. Each is presented as a work in progress with its own project page, so the site is the place to go for current details rather than a finished product catalog. The projects share a common thread with his writing—useful, deliberately built tools that connect ideas and data.
The three projects at a glance
| Project | What it is | Platform / form |
|---|---|---|
| WP Knowledge | A private, permissioned, revisioned place in WordPress for guidelines, memories, notes, and the tools that use them | WordPress |
| Oh My Lake! | A WordPress-native atlas of 109,541 European lakes, combining open data with local evidence, personal reviews, and photography | WordPress |
| DoomToll | An iPhone-first digital tollbooth that turns opening social media from an automatic reflex into a conscious choice | iPhone app |
WP Knowledge
WP Knowledge is described as giving WordPress "one private, permissioned, revisioned place for guidelines, memories, notes, and the tools that use them." In other words, it is a knowledge and memory layer for WordPress rather than a public publishing feature: access is controlled, changes are tracked, and other tools can build on the stored material. A related essay, "WP Knowledge: Beyond AI," frames the new WordPress knowledge API as something that "can turn any WordPress into a Personal Cloud." If you want to understand the thinking behind the project, that post is the natural starting point.
Oh My Lake!
Oh My Lake! is a WordPress-native atlas covering 109,541 European lakes. It combines open data with "useful local evidence, personal reviews, and photography"—so it is part reference map, part community-contributed guide. The scale (over a hundred thousand lakes) suggests the value lies in structured open data plus the human layer on top. For anyone curious about European lakes or about how WordPress can host a large data-driven atlas, the project page is the entry point.
DoomToll
DoomToll is an iPhone-first "digital tollbooth." Its purpose is behavioral: opening social media stops being an automatic reflex and becomes a conscious choice. The metaphor is deliberate—you pay a small toll of friction or intention before entering. It is the most personal-scale of the three projects, aimed at individual habits rather than publishing infrastructure.
How to explore further
The site's "Things I'm building and exploring" section links each project to its own "Explore →" page, and a separate "Explore projects →" link collects them. Since these are ongoing efforts, details such as features and availability are best checked on those pages rather than assumed from the summaries above. The same section also points to his recent writing, where project-adjacent essays appear—for example, the WordPress AI strategy post and the Obsidian-sync workflow post—which give context on how these tools fit into his broader work at WordPress.com on "the future of open web in the age of AI."
If your interest is a specific project, start with its project page; if your interest is the ideas behind them, the essays under "My recent writing" are the better route.