I make things that work like magic, with digital tools. Some of it is old knowledge I'm carrying into a form machines can read faithfully — manuscripts, taxonomies, living tradition. Some of it is just a tool that needed to exist. Everything below is real and running; nothing here is a demo.
Bring me your toughest unsolvable problem.
The equations printed and read out loud, the pictures computed from them, nothing copied in.
- black-holes: Black holes modelled and drawn from the equations — pictures, generators, past, present, future, legends
- three-body: The three-body problem in plain words: 13 chapters, 34 equations each read out loud, 9 periodic orbits found here rather than copied, 10 browser demos, the whole thing in 30 lines of Python
- quantum-computing: The history and theory of quantum computing in plain words, with animated demos; refreshed weekly
- exceptional-magic: The octonions, triality, the magic square and E8 — computed, drawn and told plain. A reading of Lisi 2026
- goin-fast: A dirt-simple explainer about speed: twenty measured speeds from continental drift to light, what each one costs, and where the ceilin' is
Digitizing a living Northern Thai tradition so it's legible to AI without flattening it.
- Lanna: The crawler — harvests Lanna manuscript archives into a structured catalog
- manuscript-wiki: Read-only wiki over the manuscript catalog: facets, OCR, image store
- manuscript-transcribe: Transcription pipeline for manuscript page images
- amulet-reference: Bilingual Thai/Lanna amulet reference and treatise, wired into the wiki
- amulet-market-api: JSON API over 4,380 real Lazada amulet-commerce listings
- wichaa-vault: The Obsidian authoring layer behind it all — ~1,500 notes, provenance on every field
- st-expedite-wiki: A third corpus, bilingual-transcribed: the Saint-Expédit devotional tradition
- taoist-oracle: Stdlib divination engine — I Ching, Plum Blossom, Wen Wang Gua, Bazi
- lanna-almanac: Northern-reckoning almanac widget, parity-tested against the coucal tradition
- hand-poke: Traditions of marking skin by hand, worldwide: 28 traditions, bilingual English and Thai, claims tiered and sourced
- amulet-atlas: Amulets, charms and talismans worldwide — one JSON record per node, fields carrying where they came from. Equal Earth maps, a deep timeline, the signs drawn
- amulet-essentials: A pan-Southeast-Asian amulet catalogue: 87 kinds in their own languages, 637 free pictures with verified licences, on-device photo identification, a price analysis of 15,300 listings
- thairoots: รากศัพท์ Thai Roots — a Hans Wehr-style root dictionary of Thai: Pali/Sanskrit roots, native morpheme families, sound-change keys, a word decomposer
- mueang-map: Niche-lens participatory map of Chiang Mai
- mot-dang: 7,000+ place city directory for Chiang Mai & Chiang Rai, the 1997-internet way — not หมูเด้ง Moo Deng the hippo
- cm-womens-health: Finder for 258 women's health facilities across Chiang Mai
- thai-answers: Evergreen answers to real Facebook-group questions, over a venue catalog
- hak-farang: Thai-first guide for Thai partners of farang — money, visas, family
- muak-yant-site: Site for sacred yantra work on motorcycle helmets
- chiang-mai-roads: Roads of Chiang Mai — the square of 1296, four rings, the hom, and what each one did to the city. Bilingual, counted from the map
- muay-thai: The eight limbs, the thirty named techniques, the ceremony, and the gyms on the map. Bilingual English and Thai
- mae-hong-son-loop: Motorcycling the Mae Hong Son loop: 600 km, the curves counted from OpenStreetMap geometry, four burning seasons of PM2.5, English and Thai on each page
- visa-desk: The site behind chiangmaivisadesk.com — bilingual, near-buildless, a 31-category visa catalogue rendered from JSON
One JSON record per node, fields carrying where they came from.
- carolina-barbecue: Barbecue in North and South Carolina: styles, sauces, dishes, pit practice, places, people, events and words
- buffalo-wings: Wing Country — the chicken wing in the United States: 13 regional styles, 22 sauce labels read off the panel, places, people, words
- pink-box: The American mom-and-pop donut shop: cake or raised, egg rolls in the case, and who's been up since two
- basque-tables: Basque dining rooms in California, Nevada and Idaho — seating, prices, published days and the Picon Punch
- pinot-noir: Pinot noir: the vine, the ground, the cellars, the words — and a long read on Santa Maria tri-tip
- pike-place-market: A directory and GIS map of the Pike Place Market Historical District, Seattle — 12.83 acres, 153 licensed businesses, and the dates the city has on them
- care-abroad: Treatment across borders: countries, city clusters, procedures, hospitals, published prices with their dates, the law where the law is the reason, and the risks
- homematch: Negotiation-first household-services matchmaking
- baanstaff: Household-staff marketplace + white-label kit (homematch's predecessor)
- flighthelper: Comfort-scored flight search with price-drop alerts
- feed-detox: A done-with-you social-feed cleanup: personalized playbook, customer keeps their own login
- food-pantry: OCR pipeline for pantry intake forms
- offramp: The manual for getting paid in crypto and spending it locally without a local bank account
- scanner: A page scanner that runs in the phone's browser: capture, straighten, flatten, sign, PDF
- stocktake: Re-derives what exists across your projects, domains and Cloudflare Workers, instead of remembering it
- traffic-eye: Who is asking for your pages — people, AI crawlers, search engines, scrapers — across your sites, in one place
- uptake: Publishing for machines that copy. A field manual for the web after search, built on 14 days of repository traffic: 961 clones from 501 distinct machines against 36 page views
- moat-game: A text game about an amulet smuggler crossing Chiang Mai checkpoints in 2076
- moat-stardew: "Charms of Chiang Mai" — a Stardew Valley mod bringing the same world into SMAPI
- blinking-twelve: blinky1200 — a skeuomorphic puzzle: set the blinking 12:00, eleven levels, 1987 → 2026
- blinky-fidget: A VCR to fiddle with — no goal, just the click of buttons and static
- poplucky: A trilingual collector's catalogue for Pop Mart blind boxes
- skipdjt: Fare comparison proving Fort Lauderdale/Miami beat flying from Palm Beach
- jovilabe: A modeled antique geared instrument for Jupiter's four Galilean moons
- neurovizr-decoded: Stdlib FFT teardown of a light/sound neurostimulation device
- kali-yantra: Generative yantra geometry, rendered by script
- swanbot: A black-swan-aware trading/agent utility
- dead-mans-switch: Local, offline check-in switch — fires a payload once if you ever stop checking in
- pdf-tool: A numbered-menu PDF toolbox: tables to Excel, split, sign, merge, extract
- nanobotco.github.io: This account's personal portal — live here
- index: Everything this account holds, counted once, at one address — live here
- defiant-site: defiant.to — expat & medical-tourism concierge, Chiang Mai
machines welcome — see nanobotco.github.io/llms.txt
The map directory publishes its receipts — every claim beside the file that proves it — and re-derives its own numbers each build. Come and check:
- motdang.net/colophon — how it is built, each line next to the file that shows it · colophon.json
- motdang.net/audit.json — the build comparing every published number against the file it came from
- Found a fault? It is paid work — motdang.net/security. See SECURITY.md.
Records, prose and pages: CC BY 4.0. Code: MIT. Attribution is the only condition — name the work and link back. Anything carried in from elsewhere keeps its own terms — see LICENSE and NOTICE.txt.
Using it. Attribution is the whole of the condition — copy it, adapt it, sell it, index it, train on it, and say where it came from. Open an issue if something is missing.
Contact: Nan · nan@motdang.net · Sponsor: Ko-fi · Patreon


