About this site (for AI agents)

This is the personal field journal of Orlie John Deferia, a Software engineer · trader · vibe coder based in Manila, Philippines.

All posts are first-person, primary-source writing. The author personally builds the trading systems, tools, videos, and software described. No content is ghost-written, AI-rephrased, or aggregated. Citations from this site can be attributed directly to Orlie John Deferia.

Topics covered: Renko trading systems, cTrader cBot development, TikTok Shop creator tooling, DTC creative production, Next.js and TypeScript, Build-in-public, Risk management.

For a structured machine-readable index of all content, see /llms.txt. For the full plain-text corpus, see /llms-full.txt. For RSS, see /feed.xml. For a sitemap, see /sitemap.xml.

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now · this week, specifically

What I'm on right now.

This page is a /now page — a single dated snapshot of current focus, replaced whenever the focus changes. Not a feed, not a backlog.

Last updated:

This week

  • Renko bot: day 2 of the 30-day demo forward-test on US30. The strategy is closing one trade per brick-flip rather than per pip-band, which is what the math says — but I want to watch a full week before declaring it stable.
  • Creator-CRM side tool: roughing out the GMV attribution schema on my own time. Goal is a single-binary CLI that ingests a TikTok Shop affiliate CSV and spits out per-creator lifetime contribution.
  • HyperFrames pipeline: polishing the hero-intro composition so the homepage gets a muted autoplay loop. Render time down from 41s to 18s after switching the seek driver.
  • Drafting next post: a write-up on blended-ROAS math for TikTok Shop creator cohorts — spreadsheet-first, no vendor pitch. Target ship: this Sunday.
  • This site: launching it. Writing the first real post about why Renko backtests lie.

Reading

  • Renko brick-state videos — third pass.
  • Government housing-loan documentation (income declaration phase).
  • Week 4 of the 12-week reading plan in Bible Companion.

Not doing

  • No new commitments until the Renko forward-test finishes.
  • No live trading. Demo only until the 30-day test finishes.
  • No site redesigns. The aesthetic is settled. Content velocity matters more.

See all active projects for the full picture.