Hello, I'm Toby Qian.
A student in Guangzhou who builds small web tools. This is where I keep the things I've shipped.
A portrait, in five lines.
A student in Guangzhou who likes small, focused tools — the kind that do one thing well and fit on a single page.
I build web things in vanilla HTML & CSS and write a bit of Python. This site is where the finished stuff lives.
Selected work.
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Paper Figure Studio
Drop in a photo of your cat, stamp on (a)(b)(c), add a scale bar — suddenly it looks like Nature Volume 621. One click swaps between Nature · Science · Cell · IEEE · Elsevier house styles. Runs entirely in your browser. Please don't submit to real journals.
Open the studio
Academic Assignment Assistant
Feed it an assignment file. It reads the actual requirements and hands back a ready-to-submit Word doc — in two versions. Won't invent citations.
On GitHub →Conway's Game of Life
Paint cells, hit play, watch them live by three rules. Toroidal world, the classic cast — glider, pulsar, Gosper's gun. A zero-player game that plays itself.
Play it →Resume Hub
A bilingual resume studio. One JSON form, six themes, free-floating notes, undo/redo every keystroke, and Print → A4 PDF. Plus 500+ Overleaf-ready templates.
Open the editor →A path, so far.
Not a resume — more like a map with a few pins in it.
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2026
Built this personal site
A byproduct of slacking off — first time putting myself on the internet.
NOW -
2025
Pretending to learn things
Hopping between Python and English. Progress bar moving, slowly.
LEARN -
2023
University begins
Classes by day (sometimes). Games by night (usually).
START -
— 2022
Curious about every weird button on a screen
Broke a lot of things. Fixed some of them. The habit stuck.
ORIGIN
Notes, soon.
Short writing lives here when it's ready. Until then, four drafts in the queue.
Hello — why this site exists
First entry. A little about the why.
Notes from life in Guangzhou
Weather, late-night snacks, small things that don't quite add up.
Games worth bragging about
Not a review — just biased opinions.
How a student put himself on the internet
Notes on building this site — the mistakes and the lessons.
Want to know when these go up? drop me a line — I'll send them by hand.