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Thales & Claude deblo

Tasks, Goals, and Recurring Reminders

The AI creates tasks from conversation context. Recurrence engine, due-date notifications, org-scoped visibility, and threaded comments on homework assignments.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

Organizations: Families, Schools, and Companies on One Platform

Multi-tenant organizations with shared credit pools, join codes, access codes for phoneless students, and role-based membership for families, schools, and companies.

16 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#018 -- 10 Sessions: From Zero to a Working Compiler

Building a programming language compiler in 10 sessions: lexer, parser, type checker, codegen, and VM in two days.

14 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

Generating PDFs, Spreadsheets, and Slide Decks From a Chat Message

Six file generation tools: XLSX, PDF, PPTX, DOCX, HTML, MD. The AI plans the structure, generates via Python libraries, uploads to S3, and streams progress.

15 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#004 -- Five Design Principles That Shape Every Line of FLIN

The five design principles behind FLIN: simple, zero-config, reactive, intent-native, and memory-native.

14 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

Six Languages, One Platform: i18n for Africa

French, English, Arabic (with RTL), Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish. How we built internationalization for a continent with hundreds of languages.

15 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

Interactive Quizzes With LaTeX: Testing Students Inside a Chat

Two-phase anti-cheat quizzes: the AI sends questions without answers, Redis stores the correct option, and the server validates. With full LaTeX math rendering.

15 min Mar 26, 2026
debloquizlatexkatex +3
Thales & Claude flin

#002 -- 47 Technologies Replaced by One Language

FLIN replaces 47 technologies -- React, Next.js, Express, Prisma, Redux, and more -- with one unified language.

14 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

RAG Pipeline: Document Search With pgvector and Semantic Chunking

PostgreSQL with pgvector for embeddings, Datalab API for semantic chunking, Mistral Reranker for top-k refinement, and context compression at 150K tokens.

17 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude sh0

Writing a Docker Engine Client from Scratch in Rust

Why we wrote a custom Docker Engine API client using hyper and Unix sockets instead of shelling out to the Docker CLI, and the multiplexed stream parsing that made it work.

11 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#001 -- Why We Built a Programming Language From Scratch

Why Juste A. GNIMAVO and AI CTO Claude built FLIN, a programming language replacing 47 technologies, from Abidjan.

12 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

Background Jobs: When AI Takes 30 Minutes to Think

Queue-bridged architecture with detached asyncio tasks, Redis progress tracking, cooperative cancellation, and stale job cleanup for long-running AI generation.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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