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.

orliejohn

projects · what's actually shipped

What I'm building.

A short, dated list of every project I'm actively shipping right now. Status reflects reality, not aspiration.

shippingtrading

Renko bot v1

An automated Renko-brick trading strategy on cTrader, with hard-coded safety gates.

US30, 4-hour Renko, ATR-sized bricks. Eight refusals baked in: demo-only flag, max 10% account equity exposure, single-position cap, daily-target disarm, news-window pause, server-restart safe-state, manual-override-required for live trading, and a kill-switch on three consecutive losing weeks. Built 2026-05-15. Currently mid 30-day forward-test on demo before any live trading is considered.

cTrader cBotC#US3030-day demo protocolv1.0
liveengineering

Bible Companion

bible-companion-three.vercel.app ↗

A PWA for the Catholic daily office, S.O.A.P. journaling, and the examen.

Next.js 16, Tailwind v4, Postgres + Prisma, deployed on Vercel. Offline-first PWA so the practice survives a flaky connection. Auth is a magic-link link starting in v2 (currently password gate). Built to invite daily use, not extract attention.

Next.js 16PWAPostgres + PrismaLive
shippingengineering

TikTok Shop creator CRM

A creator-tracking CRM and reporting dashboard built for TikTok Shop affiliate programs.

Google Sheets as the source-of-truth backing store. Schema covers reach, lifecycle stage, payout tracking, and a GMV attribution module that ties creator output back to shop orders. Built as a self-contained internal tool, portable across programs.

Next.jsGoogle Sheets syncInternal tool
liveecommerce

TikTok Shop creator program (skincare niche)

A shipped TikTok Shop creator program system — outreach automation, reporting, and commission design for the skincare niche.

Designed and shipped a tiered commission affiliate structure, creator outreach automation, monthly performance reporting pipeline, and exclusion logic that doesn't torch relationships. Output: the system itself + the reporting dashboards.

TikTok ShopSkincare nicheCreator program
liveecommerce

Sustainable-homeware ad creative

A library of self-produced Meta ad creative and b-roll for the sustainable-homeware niche.

11 finished Meta ads produced in HyperFrames. 236+ b-roll clips catalogued and tagged for reuse. Niche: sustainable homeware.

Meta adsHyperFrames11 production ads236+ b-roll clips
shippingengineering

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The site you're on. An AI-first field journal designed to be edited from anywhere via Claude Code.

Next.js 15 (App Router) on Vercel. Tailwind v4. MDX content under /content/posts. Full machine-readable surface: robots, sitemap, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, BlogPosting JSON-LD, RSS. Source of truth is GitHub; CI is just Vercel git deploys.

Next.js 15MDXVercelTailwind v4
planningessay

Apartment rental business

Long-term cashflow project funded via government-backed financing.

Phase 1: income declaration ramp to unlock loan capacity. Phase 2: unit acquisition. Phase 3: operations. Years, not months.

Long-termReal estatePhase 1 of 3

Looking for something that's not here? Read the journal — most of the thinking behind each project ends up in writing.