Projects

Longer-term systems and applications being built in the lab.

• Projects PROJ-004-C May 24, 2026 10 min read

  Macro-chan Online — Building a Grounded Macro Layer

  ForexWaifu needed a macro brain. The first attempt produced confident-sounding analysis that hadn't checked the news recently. The second attempt used Gemini's grounded search. Macro-chan came online. The yield curve explanations stopped. The actual macro intelligence started.

• Projects PROJ-004-B May 23, 2026 10 min read

  Analyst-chan Online — Migrating ForexWaifu from CLI to Browser

  This article continues from PROJ-004-A. The architectural realization happened there. The actual building happens here. This is where Analyst-chan comes online, the CLI gets retired, and the charts start having opinions.

• Projects PROJ-004-A May 22, 2026 8 min read

  How a Trading-Partner Project Accidentally Became an Agent-System Laboratory

  EthanC originally rebuilt ForexWaifu to improve an abandoned trading-assistant project. Instead, it accidentally became a controlled laboratory for exploring agent systems, orchestration architectures, modular cognition, and the strange emergence of “-chan” based AI ecosystems.

• Projects PROJ-003 February 26, 2026 6 min read

  OptionsWaifu: A Personal Options Trade Tracker

  Trading without accurate P&L data is just expensive guessing. OptionsWaifu is a fully local options trade tracker — built in 4 days, powered by SQLite, and capable of answering the one question that matters: what's my actual win (or loss) rate?

• Projects PROJ-002-C February 14, 2026 6 min read

  WaifuVoice: Memory, Persona & The Architecture of Presence

  The pipeline works. The voice is there. But without memory, it's just a very fast echo. Phase 3 adds what makes WaifuVoice feel alive — conversation memory, persona tuning, and the moment she remembered something you said three turns ago.

• Projects PROJ-002-B February 14, 2026 8 min read

  WaifuVoice: VAD, Audio Hell & The Chair Scrape

  The pipeline exists. Now: make it not terrible. Ten problems, ten-ish solutions, one chair scrape, and a Whisper model that confidently diagnosed "favorite condom." VAD, audio hell, and the single parameter that fixed everything.

• Projects PROJ-002-A February 14, 2026 6 min read

  WaifuVoice: The Pipeline Awakens

  Eight months after the first attempt was shelved, WaifuVoice gets a second chance. This time: better hardware support, better models, and hard-won experience. The pipeline that should exist — built properly, from scratch, and timely completed on Valentine's Day.

• Projects PROJ-001-A June 13, 2025 8 min read

  Field Report: First Snipe Forex Execution 🎯

  How we executed our first confirmed signal using our homegrown AI-compatible trading dashboard. With visuals, logic, and results.

• Projects PROJ-001 June 12, 2025 10 min read

  Building a Forex Trading Partner — Phase 1: Signal Engine & UI 📈

  We built a simple but AI-compatible assistant to help monitor our forex charts and detect high-confidence trading signals.