Jonathan Chiang

Mid-20s software guy. Currently in Toronto.

I am interested in the genealogy of objects and ideas. Why are things the way they are? I find that this question can usually be answered by looking at what has come before.

Email me: jchiangconan@gmail.com

Things I've Written

• How to Cope with the Destruction of Everything you Know and Love (2026)
• Who has the funniest name? (2026)
• How to Make $15K Beating Sportsbooks and Casinos (2026)
• About 38% of Greek Statues are Male (2026)
• Backrooms (2026): Id vs. Superego (2026)
• Audiobooks are not Reading (2026)
• On Roughness (2026)
• The Symbolism of Saltburn (2023) (2024)
• Is water wet? Is a hot dog a sandwich? (2022)

Things I've Made

• Rank Anything (2026) — convert your income to League of Legends rank, or between a bunch of other things
• This website (2026) — resource-light and quick-to-deploy Markdown-to-pure-HTML website
• FIRE Map (2025) — interactive FIRE geographic visualization
• Model confidence (2025) — crude detection of LLM hallucatinations using llama.cpp
• WhoToText (2024) — pick a friend to reach out to
• Mortal Coil solver (2024) — top 10% automatic solver for hacker.org/coil
• Terminal-based homepage (2022) — old CLI-style homepage
• CS:GO cheat (2020) — bhop, triggerbot, ESP, anti-flash