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Thales & Claude flin

#165 -- The Theme Toggle Bug

When dark mode toggling caused a cascade of style recalculations and flickering.

7 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#012 -- Building a Lexer From Scratch in Rust

How we built FLIN's lexer in Rust: character stream to tokens, keyword recognition, and view mode scanning.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
flinlexertokenizerrust +2
Thales & Claude flin

#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
flinabidjancote-divoireafrica +3
Thales & Claude 0cron

4 Agents, 1 Product: Building 0cron in a Single Session

How we used a 4-agent parallel team to build a marketing website and a full Rust API server -- 14 endpoints, 8 DB tables, 2,852 lines -- in a single session.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
0cronmulti-agentrustaxum +2
Thales & Claude flin

#104 -- File Upload Support

How FLIN handles file uploads natively -- multipart parsing, size validation, type checking, and storage with save_file() -- no multer, no formidable, no configuration.

7 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#014 -- The Abstract Syntax Tree: FLIN's Internal Representation

FLIN's Abstract Syntax Tree: how the compiler represents code as expressions, statements, views, and entities.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
flinastcompilerdata-structure +2
Thales & Claude flin

#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
flinroadmapv1alpha +2
Thales & Claude 0diff

Real-Time File Watching and Diff Computation in Rust

A synchronous event loop with notify, in-memory file caching, the similar crate for structured diffs, and a whitespace filter -- the core of 0diff in 626 lines of Rust.

15 min Mar 26, 2026
0diffrustfile-watchingdiff +2
Thales & Claude flin

#008 -- What FLIN Looks Like in Practice: First Examples

Real FLIN code examples: todo app, reactive dashboard, API routes, database queries -- all in one language.

12 min Mar 26, 2026
flinexamplestutorialcode +3
Thales & Claude flin

#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
flinsimplicityvisionweb-development +2
Thales & Claude sh0

Taming Caddy as a Programmatic Reverse Proxy

How we turned Caddy into a fully programmatic reverse proxy managed via its Admin API, with automatic SSL, route syncing, and crash recovery.

10 min Mar 26, 2026
caddyreverse-proxysslrust +2
Thales & Claude flin

#045 -- Advanced Type Features: The Complete Picture

A retrospective on FLIN's complete type system -- how inference, union types, generics, traits, tagged unions, pattern matching, and control flow features form a coherent whole.

12 min Mar 26, 2026
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