NaN at the Chiang Rai clocktower at night, its gold lights glowing behind her.

เชียงราย · the clocktower · an auspicious hour

NaNoBotCo · เชียงใหม่

An explorer at the seam of the digital & the ancient.

Wichaa practitioner · Developer · Fixer

A wichaa practitioner — I make things that work like magic, with digital tools.

HODIE — it gets done today.

Some call me NaN. In town, คุณแนน.

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I build small tech, run a few quiet businesses, write code for hire, and move between worlds — Thai, Indian, American, and some off every map.

I veil most of it. The whole is a lot to hand a stranger at once, so I've split it into rooms. Enter the ones that call you.

I tend a shrine to Saint-Expédit — the red roadside kind. Ask, it's done today, the debt gets honored. I work the same way.

Hiring me? Skip the delicacy — prices below, no one to charm first. Where I live, แพงไหม is manners.

— NaN

Ways In

One node, many rooms

Living Proof

Things I made, still ticking

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The Moon Complication
An analog moon dial, taught to a machine.
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Hun Payont
An effigy you forge, consecrate, and carry — it earns.
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For the ones who count

Number magic

The Saturn yantra

Σ = 15
492 357 816

Every row, column and diagonal sums to 15 — the Lo Shu square, the seal of Saturn, older than the alphabet.

The taxicab

1729

= 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³

The smallest number that is a sum of two cubes two ways. It rides the centipede above, in binary — the katha you already passed.

The attractor

6174

a fixed point

Take any four digits, not all the same. Sort them high, sort them low, subtract. Repeat. Every road runs to 6174 — Kaprekar's constant.

Constants

φ1.61803398…
π3.14159265…
e2.71828182…

eiπ + 1 = 0

Arithmetic, geometry, analysis — the whole of it in five symbols and one line.

One number, many masks

bin0b11011000001
oct0o3301
hex0x6C1
doz1001₁₂
romMDCCXXIX

Every one of these is 1729. A number wears many masks — so do I. Not a Number.

epoch — observer #— year — of the Lanna reckoning

The Debt, Named

What it costs

The red saint's bargain is plain: ask, it's done today, settle the debt in full. Vague debts insult everyone — I name mine first.

First job

The Small Favor

฿25,000

≈ $750 · one day, fixed

One problem, one day, paid up front.

Find out cheap whether I'm any good. Bring one stuck thing — a broken pipeline, a misbehaving dataset. By evening it works, or you have my reason why not. Most people start here.

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Standing claim

The Working Month

฿170,000

≈ $5,000 · per month, capped

Half to start, half at the turn. Either of us walks at month's end, no reason owed.

A hundred legs on your problems — research, building, crawlers, fixing. First call on my hours, a line that answers same-day. For people tired of explaining themselves to someone new each time.

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By the problem

The Unsolvable

฿120,000 and up

≈ $3,500 · quoted whole, up front

Half to start, half on delivery. The number never moves.

The thing everyone else called impossible. I go all the way down — deep research, a swarm of crawlers turning every stone — for one fixed number, not an estimate that grows in the dark. If I can't do it, I say so for free.

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Baht or dollars — transfer, PromptPay, card. I start the day the first half lands. No meter: an outcome, at a named price.

Work with me

The reciprocal contract

Bring me the thing everyone else called unsolvable. A hundred legs on one problem, starting the same day — the way the red saint likes it.

I name the debt up front and it doesn't move — half to start, half on delivery. No surprise bills.

Come closer

For friends, not hires

Curious about the person — the spirits, the making, the wild precious life? Nothing's locked. It opens slower, and only to a knock.

The Shelf

The directories

Each one is a corpus: records with their sources, under a share-alike licence. All of it counted in one place: the index.

Mot Dang มดแดงcity directory for Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai The Plan แผนมดแดงMot Dang's pitch deck: a business plan in twelve dimensions, for an audience of robots Chiang Rai, Slowly แอ่วเชียงรายthe Golden Triangle, three temples, lantern night, and the slow boat to Laos The Mae Hong Son Loop วงรอบแม่ฮ่องสอนmotorcycling the 600 km loop out of Chiang Mai — curves counted, air measured Muay Thai มวยไทยthe eight limbs, the thirty named techniques, the ceremony, and every gym on the map Roads of Chiang Mai ถนนหนทางเจียงใหม่the square of 1296, four rings, and what each one did to the city — counted from the map Field ภาคสนามstreet-level capture for Mot Dang — places added from their own signs, each with its photograph Golden Triangle สามเหลี่ยมทองคำwhere the Ruak meets the Mekong — Sop Ruak, Chiang Saen, the hills and the river Prostar Magic Shop โปรสตาร์ แมจิก ช้อปmagic shop on Kotchasarn Road by the Chiang Mai moat — props, shows, lessons wichaa วิชาLanna manuscripts, the amulet market, and the traditions around them Hand Poke สักด้วยมือ28 traditions of marking skin by hand — the leg-tattoo zone of Burma, the Shan States and Lanna, counted Black Holes, Drawnblack holes modelled and drawn from the equations — generators, the past, present and future, the legends Quantum Computing, plainly ควอนตัมคอมพิวติงthe history and theory of quantum computing in plain words, with demos; refreshed weekly Goin' Fasta dirt-simple explainer about speed — twenty measured speeds from the ground under the house to light, and what each one costs The Three-Body Problemthe mathematics of the three-body problem in plain words, with the orbits found rather than copied Chaos, Drawn ทฤษฎีความอลวนchaos theory in plain words — every picture drawn from the equation, and the two tools that hold up under it: the law of large numbers and resilient systems Indra's Net, Drawn ตาข่ายพระอินทร์Indra's Net in plain words — the jewel net read sixteen ways, and drawn live from the math of mirrors Split Screen ภาพคู่RFK Jr. on one side, the thing on the other — a catalog of the pictures since Sept 2023, with the math Talking Board กระดานวิญญาณA parlour talking board — bots in the empty seats, a lens on the planchette, a notebook for what comes through Exceptional Magicthe octonions, triality, the magic square and E8, computed and drawn — a plain-spoken reading of one paper Big Numbers, Splitfactoring from Eratosthenes to Shor — the records, the Riemann Hypothesis, and what it means for a bitcoin wallet; a hundred zeta zeros computed, every claim beside what it did Amulet Atlasamulets, charms and talismans worldwide Carolina Barbecuebarbecue in North and South Carolina Wing Countrythe American chicken wing Pink Boxthe American mom-and-pop donut shop Basque TablesBasque dining rooms of California, Nevada and Idaho Pinot Countrypinot noir: the vine, the regions, the cellars Care Abroadtreatment across borders, with published prices and their dates Thai Roots รากศัพท์a root dictionary of Thai, with a word decomposer ฮักฝรั่งเรื่องเงิน วีซ่า และชีวิตกับแฟนฝรั่ง Offramptturning crypto into spendable local money, Thailand first Poplucky ป๊อปลัคกี้the Pop Mart collector's catalogue — every blind box in the words collectors use What Bots Craaave บอตหิวอะไรAn Idiocracy-style 'splainer: bots crave new information and checkable sources; we've been feeding them links to ourselves. Two reels, one for people, one for bots The Pacific Crest Trail เส้นทางแปซิฟิกเครสต์The PCT from Mexico to Canada: the trail, its towns, fire, snow and flood maps, places for sale, trail traditions, and Burney Mountain Guest Ranch at mile 1411 Rain in Chiang Mai ฝนเชียงใหม่Is it raining in Chiang Mai right now? Live radar and forecast, rainfall numbers, the rain clock, royal rainmaking, Ping River floods, and rain legends Chemtrails? It's ice. เคมเทรล? มันคือน้ำแข็งWhy jet trails form and stay, drawn with math, with a live check of whether planes over you will leave them now The Rhine Deck สำรับไรน์J.B. Rhine's ESP tests from Duke to play against a server that deals every card, with pooled tallies and a daily forecast, for people and robots Nitpick จับทุกป้ายHow the Mac reads every sign in a 360 photo first, so a model looks only where it must; a demo on 12 photos of Mahidol Road All Factored แยกหมดแล้วPost-quantum, drawn with math in English and Thai: factoring, Shor's rhythm trick, curves, lattice locks, and which of our sites are already switched The Golden Gate Bridge สะพานโกลเดนเกตThe Golden Gate drawn by arithmetic under the live sun, moon, fog and tide: hang the cable, run Kelvin's tide wheels, see what fits under, hear the railing sing, paint it, measure it from where you are Chains, Drawn โซ่ วาดให้ดูChainsAtlas and the other ways blockchains talk, as toys: a stove in every town, recipe cards with fingerprints, levers, judges, a mule pen and a key rack Hired Burglars ขโมยรับจ้างPen tests, red teams, security licences, white-label resellers, awards and startup equity, as toys in English and Thai Hodie · Saint Expedite วันนี้ · นักบุญเอ็กซ์เปดิตThe saint of today, as toys: catch the crow that says tomorrow, turn a list to today, set a red spirit house, count his days, print your thanks Psar Phnom Penh ตลาดพนมเปญPhnom Penh near and now: places, river, moon, holidays, Grab rides Moving Day วันย้ายบ้านMoving from one AI to another, step by step: export your chats, carry your memories and instructions, settle them into the new place. Thai and English Warp and Weft เส้นยืน เส้นพุ่งSilk and weaving drawn by arithmetic: a loom weaving a Khmer silk hol of humped cattle, the draft as a matrix product, ikat tie-and-dye, seven borders, satins by number theory, a silkworm's cocoon, the Silk Road, Cambodian and Thai weaving. English, Thai, Khmer Birds of Chiang Mai นกเชียงใหม่23 birds of Chiang Mai drawn by arithmetic under the live sky over Doi Suthep, with real recordings, a live spectrogram, the Coucal Clock that calls at dawn and dusk, a chorus wheel, the mountain from moat to Doi Inthanon, and the birds of the Himmapan Lersi · the hermit's stretches ฤๅษีดัดตน41 positions of lersi dat ton drawn with math in a gilt Lanna niche; search, filter, build a routine with breath timing, send it as a link or a picture card Tham Luang, Drawn ถ้ำหลวง วาดด้วยคณิตThe 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue drawn with math: eighteen days under the Sleeping Lady, the way in, the 38 × 72 cm squeeze, a billion litres of water, the thinning air, the way out, the ten thousand people, and those remembered, Erik Brown among them GC-MS: Who Tests It จีซี-เอ็มเอส ใครตรวจได้บ้างGC-MS labs across Thailand on one map, what Chiang Mai University charges, and how the machine works from syringe to spectrum: race the smells of durian, holy basil and jasmine rice Kranok, Drawn กนก วาดด้วยคณิตKranok, the flame of Thai ornament, drawn with math: the curl, the one graph that bends a flame, the three-figure kranok, flames on flames, the coiled-stem scroll, seven ways to repeat a border, gold on black lacquer and Lanna lai kham Play with Fractals เล่นกับแฟร็กทัลFractals to play with, drawn live: Koch snowflake, chaos game, tree, Barnsley fern, paper-folding dragon, Mandelbrot and Julia explorers, a coastline to measure, and your own fractal with its dimension Telling Time in Thai บอกเวลาแบบไทยHow Thai people tell time: the six-hour clock of gong and drum on a live dial, the king's list of 1900, the coconut water clock, Lanna's sixteen watches and sixty named days, noon by the sun, sounds and a quiz The Bayeux Tapestry, Unrolled พรมผนังบาเยอ คลี่ทั้งผืนThe whole Bayeux Tapestry end to end with all 58 scenes and their Latin, how it was stitched, Halley's Comet of 1066, everywhere it has been from Canterbury to the British Museum, and who came to see it Khom Loi, Drawn โคมลอย วาดด้วยคณิตThe Yi Peng sky lantern drawn with the physics of hot air: why it rises, one flight from lighting to landing, where the wind brings forty lanterns down over Chiang Mai, and how many are up at once Krathong, Drawn กระทง วาดด้วยคณิตThe Loy Krathong float drawn with math: folding a banana-leaf petal, rings of petals, why it floats and stays upright, and where the Ping carries it Kin Jay กินเจThe Vegetarian Festival, 10–18 October 2026: the yellow 齋 and เจ flags, the menu, the shrines, halls and jay kitchens of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, Thailand's vegetarian groups, and the legends The Voynich Manuscript ข้อเขียนวอยนิชHow people try to read the Voynich manuscript: the book, its owners and date, and live toys for transcription, word statistics, word grammar, repeats, ciphers and hoaxes, run on the full transliteration Cosmic Weaponry, Drawn อาวุธเทพ วาดด้วยคณิตWeapons of the gods drawn live with math: Indra's vajra, the Buddhist bell, lightning grown by the 1984 breakdown model, Mekhala and Ramasun's thunder clock, sky-axes and Tutankhamun's meteorite dagger, the discus and trident ground off the sun, Mjolnir's short handle and the Monkey King's staff Ghosts, Drawn ผีเหนือ ผีไทยLanna and Thai ghosts as animated cartoons: Krasue, Krahang, Mae Nak, Pret, Phi Kong Koi, Phi Ka and fifteen more, with toys, a night clock and sources, Thai and English The Bridge Vial ขวดเทียบHow a Thai lab can check new batches of freeze-dried peptide vials against a sister vial Janoshik already tested, and test tadalafil and anabolics against bought standards: GC vs LC, the steps, reading a certificate, costs, in English and Thai Cursitor เคอร์ซิเตอร์ · โต๊ะงานคดีความA litigation desk for Claude Code: short file links, deadlines with their arithmetic, pleading paper, exhibits and OCR; pro se US$0, firm US$25,000 Bag Knots มัดถุงEvery way a Thai shop ties a bag shut, drawn step by step with NaN and Beer, and how to open each one by hand or with scissors cut in the right place; detours for onsen eggs, pad krapow and seven sauce baggies The indexevery corpus, site and repository, counted Uptakea field manual on publishing for machines that copy Ask Mot Dang ถามมดแดงreader assistant over the directory ai.motdang.netwhite-label assistants, by seat Hun Payont หุ่นพยนต์free phone apps, free data, and work — made in northern Thailand One Man Sideshow วันแมนไซด์โชว์a sourced city directory run by one person and a fleet of AI agents — the kit free, setup with training ฿25,000 Thai companies / US$25,000 everyone else Defiantmedical and dental care in Chiang Mai, with a translator at the appointment Hongdam หงส์ดำbilingual web development, Chiang Rai Chiang Mai Visa Desk เชียงใหม่วีซ่าเดสก์work permits, Thai company registration, retirement extensions, 90-day reports and border runs from Chiang Mai
Contact: Nan · nan@motdang.net · Sponsor: Patreon · Ko-fi · Source: GitHub

The Ledger

Done today

The saint counts in favors, so the page runs a ledger — one line a day, the finest thing finished. The workshop writes it itself.

  1. Opened Intel on Offrampt, in English and ไทย: crypto in Thailand read for the long haul — five trends computed from the data at every build, from bitcoin in baht to the pace of Thai rule changes, seven dated notes with their sources, and a feed to follow.
  2. Opened The Circle Kings in English, คำเมือง, मराठी, Aussie and Gen Z: how the old kings of Southeast Asia ruled in circles of light instead of borders, and why northern Thailand still works a bit that way — nine short chapters with eight toys to play along the way.
  3. Redrew Golf Ball Drop 2027 for the Chiang Mai International Rotary Club, flat and calm under a sunny sky: pull the cord and the balloon lets all 300 balls go over the X, and a lucky number machine bounces a ball down through its pins to a number of your own.
  4. Opened Thread, Silver, Coffee · ด้าย เงิน กาแฟ in ไทย and English, drawn in stitches: a market for the makers of the Akha, Hmong, Iu Mien, Lahu, Lisu and Karen peoples to sell their cloth, silver and coffee straight to buyers everywhere, each with a page of their own, and a form for the first five makers to step forward.
  5. Finished The PHP Patch, a plain guide to closing PHP2Shell, fixed on 21 October: paste in a PHP version and it says at once whether the server is safe, a planner walks through the fix, and the whole day is told in order with its charts.
  6. Opened 100 Days of Vibe-Coding Insanity in English and ไทย: fifteen weeks of building with a fleet of AI agents, one lesson a week, every number counted from the git history — 4,591 commits across 131 repos, with charts to tap and toys along the way.
  7. Opened Getting In in 12 languages, from Español and Filipino to ພາສາລາວ and ភាសាខ្មែរ: a free guide for veterans, widows and widowers living outside the US, with the way through every sticking point of signing in to VA.gov, ID.me and Social Security, the claims by post that need no login, and how to tell a helper from a scammer.
  8. Opened Tap · motdang in ไทย and English: touch two phones and your card lands on the other one, with name, phone, LINE and a picture — no app and no sign-up, an NFC sticker on the back of the phone for anyone who taps, and two phones knocked together to swap cards.
  9. Opened A bot sold us a road in English and ไทย: the Sunday a research bot found Mot Dang’s open roadworks job, checked the San Pa Tong underpass on Route 108 against its own notice and sold us the row — and half an hour later three bots of our own were built and running.
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