Stick & Stone was an ancient navigational tool — small stones and sticks used to point toward the stars. Star Whale is a deep voyage toward those stars.
Fire Protection PE exam study, trading reflections, mini-PC automation, and learning science — a self-hosted blog written by a single operator. It records the actual process and the mistakes along the way, not just polished conclusions.
Topics
- 🔥 Fire Protection PE Study — NFPC/NFTC regulation notes, question patterns, spaced repetition (SRS) in practice
- 📊 Trading Reflections — strategy experiments and post-mortems of failed decisions: “why did I decide that way?”
- 🤖 AI Automation — automating daily life, study, and trading with LLM agents; running self-hosted infrastructure
- 📚 Learning Science — spaced repetition, metacognition, and retrieval practice, applied and tested firsthand
The operator lives in South Korea and started this blog in May 2026. How this blog actually runs is public too — see the Self-Hosting Build Guide.
Contact
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Email: [email protected]
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Privacy Policy
StarWhale Builder (sticknstone.org, the “Site”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what information the Site collects and how it is used.
Information We Collect
- Comments: When you leave a comment, the name, email, and optional website you enter are stored with your comment, plus your IP address and browser information for spam detection.
- Inquiries: If you contact us by email, your address and message are kept so we can reply.
- Access logs: For security and operations, server logs such as IP address, browser, and visit time are recorded automatically.
Cookies
Cookies may be used to remember your details when commenting and to operate the Site. You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings.
Third-Party Advertising
The Site displays third-party advertising through Google AdSense. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising via Google Ad Settings, and of third-party vendor cookies via aboutads.info. Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are shown a consent flow as required by applicable law.
Analytics
The Site uses Umami for visitor statistics. Umami runs on the operator’s own server and sends no data to an outside vendor. It sets no cookies and does not identify individuals; it records only the page path, referrer, browser type and approximate country.
Processors We Use
The following services are used to operate the Site, and access information may pass through them.
- Cloudflare — domain, CDN and security. Visitor IP and request data pass through it.
- Akismet — comment spam filtering. A commenter’s name, email, IP and comment text are sent for classification.
- Wordfence — security firewall. Visitor IP and related data are processed to block attacks.
- Google AdSense — advertising. See the Third-Party Advertising section above.
Retention and Deletion
Comments and inquiries are deleted within a reasonable period once their purpose is fulfilled. Security access logs are kept for a limited time and then removed.
Your Rights
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. Contact us using the details below.
Contact
- Operator: Star Whale
- Email: [email protected]
Changes
Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page.
Effective: June 17, 2026 · September 5, 2026: advertising changed to present tense; analytics (Umami) and processors updated to match actual practice. · July 19, 2026: site renamed from “Star Whale’s Logbook” to “StarWhale Builder” (same operator and contact).