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.

Rates →

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

Tradition & Knowledge

wichaa.net — Lanna manuscripts, wat maps, amulets, the old sciences. Legible, soul intact.

Enter wichaa →

Tools & Instruments

Small strange working things — a moon complication, a Jupiter jovilabe, a payont that pulls its weight. Instruments, not toys.

See the workbench →

Field Services

Defiant — expat & medical concierge for Chiang Mai. Fixer and developer work routes through it too.

Get help on the ground →

Play & Experiments

Games and oddments — a VCR-clock puzzle, a smuggler's tale, fare-finders, oracles. Built for joy.

Come play → Unlisted

The Unlisted Work

Some things never go behind glass. I've carried messages across borders no map shows, and left offerings for things that answered back. If you know why you're knocking, you know how to ask.

Knock three times → Human

The Person, Not the Résumé

Spirits, magic, a wild precious life. Want a friend, not a hire? Start there.

Come closer →

Living Proof

Things I made, still ticking

Open live ↗
The Moon Complication
An analog moon dial, taught to a machine.
Open ↗
Open live ↗
Hun Payont
An effigy you forge, consecrate, and carry — it earns.
Open ↗

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.

Ask →

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.

Ask →

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.

Ask →

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.

Rates → Write →

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 workshop → Wander the archive →

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 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 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 · [email protected] · 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 Tham Luang, Drawn — the eighteen days of 2018 when thirteen Wild Boars were brought home from a flooded mountain, drawn from the numbers in English and ไทย. Doi Nang Non rises from six bell curves added together, one for each part of the Sleeping Lady; press play and the rain, the water and the lights inside move day by day, each light a person, down the 10.3 km of cave to the morning the last of them walked out.
  2. Opened Birds of Chiang Mai — 23 birds drawn by arithmetic under the sky over Doi Suthep as it is right now, each one opening its bill to a real recording. At the top sits the Coucal Clock, a carved teak almanac face for a wat in San Sai with Thai numerals, the lunar day and a moon window, whose greater coucal calls at civil dawn and dusk, worked out fresh each day so the call drifts through the year the way a living one does.
  3. Opened Warp and Weft — silk and the arithmetic inside cloth, in English, ไทย and ខ្មែរ, with a loom at the top weaving NaN’s Khmer hol shawl one weft thread at a time from a plan of 72 × 104 squares, gold humped cattle and the woven word គោ, “cow”, included. Tap a weaving draft and the cloth changes under your finger, find which satin steps work by number theory and why 4 and 6 have none, draw one motif and watch Conway’s seven border repeats follow, tie and dye an ikat in seven steps, reel the ~900 metres of thread in a single cocoon, and walk the Silk Road from Jacquard’s punched cards of 1804 back to the silkworm eggs that reached Constantinople around 552.
  4. Opened The Golden Gate Bridge — drawn by arithmetic under the sun, moon, fog and tide that are over it right now, and turned to walk around the bay with a drag. The cable is left where anyone can check it: 4,200 feet between the towers, a 470-foot dip, y = 470 × (x ÷ 2,100)², so halfway to a tower it rides 117.5 feet up, and each cable spun from 27,572 wires. Kelvin’s brass tide machine of 1872 turns again on the page, eight wheels fitted to the gauge at the Presidio, with foghorns to sing along and every page in English and ไทย.
  5. Opened ตลาดและห้าง · Markets and malls on Mot Dang — every market and mall in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai read off the map, 252 markets and 77 malls across the two provinces, in Thai and English. The markets that have a site of their own stand at the top, and two opened the same day: the Kamthieng amulet market of Wednesday and Thursday mornings, frames, cases, chains and all, and Chamcha, where cotton, indigo and handmade things are sold under the rain trees on the weekend.
  6. Opened the home-help board on Mot Dang — housekeepers, gardeners, home laundries and handymen list themselves, in Thai first, and anyone can reach them directly. It sorts by service, neighbourhood from the old city out to Chiang Rai, the language they speak down to Burmese and Tai Yai, and one job or a long contract, with 324 shops and firms already standing alongside for the neighbour who wants one today.
  7. Opened Indra’s Net, Drawn — the old sky-god’s net told plain, back-porch style, with a jewel at every knot and the whole net shining in each one, then read sixteen ways, Buddhist teacher to storyteller to the fella who studies the internet, and none of them wrong about their jewel. The pictures are drawn from the math of mirrors rather than borrowed: four round mirrors make 236,196 pearls by the tenth bounce, Fazang’s mirror room lights 221 lamps within ten, and a thousand knots with one link in a hundred thrown long shrink the walk across from 50.45 hops to 8.82. Tap any jewel and the tremble spreads. Chaos, Drawn opened the same afternoon — the logistic map at every setting at once, the Lorenz wings traced out, 4.669 turning up on every road to chaos, and two tools for standing in the middle of it: count the many, and build to bend.
  8. Gave every spirit house, shrine, tree and street scene the camera has met its own page on ภาคสนาม · Field — 73 shrines and 434 scenes, each in Thai and English, each photograph free to use under CC BY 4.0. Fifty-two spirit houses and two cloth-wrapped trees now stand pinned on the map with a button that sorts them from wherever the reader is standing, and the amulet market is there table by table, down to the ten-baht pile where monks and buyers lean in together.
  9. Opened Exceptional Magic — the four number systems you can still divide in, of size 1, 2, 4 and 8, and the road from the last of them to the 248 dimensions of E8. The paper it reads is licensed against derivatives, so nothing on the site is a copy of it: every table, picture and number is computed in the repository from the definitions, and 139 checks pass before the build will publish. The wheel is the picture worth the visit — 240 roots laid flat on the one plane where the whole thing turns, thirty clicks to a full turn, 6,720 lines joining every pair sixty degrees apart, and the three colours are triality’s own cut of it, 84 standing still and 78 turning each way, a split found by search here rather than carried across. Thirty-four references stand on the credit page with links, and the thanks run back to Hamilton and Graves in the 1840s. Two more opened the same morning: The Three-Body Problem — thirteen chapters, 34 equations each read out loud in a sentence beneath it, and nine periodic orbits found on this machine rather than copied, three of them choreographies with all three bodies on one track — and Goin’ Fast, twenty measured speeds from a racing snail at 0.00275 m/s up to light itself, each one carrying the arithmetic that got it.
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Saint-Expédit · La Réunion
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