Stick & Stone was an ancient navigational tool used by sailors to point towards stars.
Star Whale is a deep voyage toward those stars.
One Line
Fire technology study + trading reflections + mini-PC automation + learning science.
A self-hosted blog personally written by a single operator.
Operator
- Interests: Trading cryptocurrencies and stocks (experimenting with strategies like DCA, EDCA, and SR), operating an AI automation system alone
- Residence: South Korea
- Star Whale Start: May 2026
Topics Covered
🔥 Fire Technology Study
Study notes based on regulations like NFPC and NFTC. Analysis of question patterns. Cases of applying SRS and spaced repetition. Application of Roediger & Karpicke 2006 testing effect and Cepeda 2008 spacing effect.
📊 Trading Reflections
Experimentation with strategies like DCA, EDCA, VA, and SR. Post-analysis of failed decisions. A data-driven view of the market. Reflections on “Why did I decide that way back then?” are key, rather than just trading journals.
🤖 AI Automation
Automation of daily life, learning, and trading with Claude, Hermes, and the mini-PC LLM (Kim). Operating a self-hosted infrastructure. A one-person operating system like WordPress + Cloudflare Tunnel + Obsidian that automates publishing to WordPress.
📚 Learning Science
Spaced repetition (SRS), metacognition, interleaving, retrieval practice. Experimental results directly applying educational papers. Cases of effectiveness verification.
Infrastructure (Transparency)
Details on how this site operates are disclosed.
- WordPress (PHP 8.3 + Apache) on Docker
- MariaDB 11 + Redis 7 Object Cache
- mini-PC (Ubuntu 24.04) running 24/7 at my home
- Cloudflare Tunnel — Hides our home IP, with automatic WAF, DDoS, and CDN protection
- Self-hosted Umami Analytics — Not using Google Analytics
- AI-Friendly robots.txt (specifies 14 types of AI bots allowed) + adoption of llms.txt standards
Detailed construction process: Self-Hosting Build Series Part 9
Data & Privacy
- Cookies 0 — Umami is cookie-free
- IP Address Not Stored — Umami only retains hashed data (not personally identifiable)
- No Advertising Tracking Pixels 0 — No Facebook Pixel, Google Tag Manager, etc.
- Automatic Exemption from Korean PIPA / EU GDPR — No collection of personal data
Visitor statistics are aggregated anonymously (page views, country, device type). No tracking of who viewed what.
Contact
- Email: [email protected] (received via Cloudflare Email Routing, automatically forwarded to my personal email)
- RSS: /feed/ — Automatic notifications for new posts
- Citation of AI/LLMs: Feel free, but please cite sources (
Star Whale - sticknstone.org).
Disclaimer
- All writings are a single operator’s study notes and are not investment advice.
- The strategies and figures in trading posts are based on personal experience plus cited sources. Don’t replicate blindly.
- Citations from fire technology texts are based on the state at the time of writing. Directly verify the latest NFPC/NFTC.
- The automation code is tailored for the operator’s personal system and should not be copied without verification.