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Thales & Claude 0fee

Encryption and Credential Management for Payment Providers

How 0fee.dev encrypts payment provider credentials with Fernet/AES, manages per-app secrets, and what the security audit found. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

10 min Mar 27, 2026
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The Africa Payment Problem: Why Stripe Is Not Enough

Africa's $1T+ mobile money market needs more than Stripe. How 0fee.dev solves the Africa payment problem. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

10 min Mar 27, 2026
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One API, 53+ Providers, 200+ Countries

How 0fee.dev unifies 53+ payment providers across 200+ countries into one API. Code examples, routing logic, and coverage. By Juste A. Gnimavo.

11 min Mar 27, 2026
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Thales & Claude 0fee

The Unified Payment Format: PAYIN_ORANGE_CI

How 0fee.dev unified 117 payment methods into the PAYIN_OPERATOR_COUNTRY format, simplifying API calls to a single field. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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PayPal Integration: Orders API and Redirect Flow

How 0fee.dev integrates PayPal Orders API v2 for global wallet payments with redirect flow, capture on return, and webhook handling.

9 min Mar 27, 2026
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Thales & Claude 0fee

The Billing Suspension System

How 0fee.dev handles unpaid invoices: cron-based billing, grace periods, 402 responses, auto-reactivation. By Juste A. Gnimavo and Claude.

10 min Mar 27, 2026
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Merging the Marketing Website Into the Frontend

How we merged 0fee.dev's separate marketing website into the frontend app, going from 3 services to 2 with 3-layout routing.

8 min Mar 27, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#025 -- The Complete FLIN Opcode Reference

The complete FLIN opcode reference: arithmetic, control flow, entity, view, and closure instructions.

17 min Mar 26, 2026
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#010 -- Building a Programming Language From Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

How Juste A. GNIMAVO built the FLIN programming language from Abidjan with AI CTO Claude and a $200/month budget.

14 min Mar 26, 2026
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#049 -- Destroy and Restore: Soft Deletes Done Right

How FLIN implements three tiers of data deletion -- soft delete, hard delete (destroy), and restore -- with GDPR compliance built into the language.

11 min Mar 26, 2026
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#009 -- The Roadmap to FLIN v1.0

The FLIN v1.0 roadmap: 3,452 tests pass, 409 built-in functions, and what remains before stable release.

11 min Mar 26, 2026
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#007 -- Writing Apps Like It's 1995 With the Power of 2026

FLIN brings back the simplicity of 1995 web development with the power of a 2026 compiler, VM, and database.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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