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#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 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

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 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

From Abidjan to 250 Million: The Deblo.ai Story

96 web sessions + 20 mobile sessions in 6 weeks. 24+ tables, 100+ endpoints, 24 AI tools, 101+ advisors. The complete story of building Deblo.ai from Abidjan.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude flin

#019 -- Error Diagnostics That Actually Help

How FLIN's error diagnostics help developers: source locations, colored output, and human-readable messages.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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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

#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
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Thales & Claude flin

#013 -- Pratt Parsing: How FLIN Reads Your Code

Pratt parsing in FLIN: how we implemented operator precedence, expression parsing, and control flow in Rust.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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#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

#015 -- Hindley-Milner Type Inference in a Custom Language

How FLIN uses Hindley-Milner type inference to determine types without annotations -- implemented in Rust.

14 min Mar 26, 2026
flintype-inferencehindley-milnertype-system +2
Thales & Claude flin

#016 -- Code Generation: From AST to Bytecode

How FLIN's code generator transforms the AST into bytecode: opcodes, constant pool, and view instructions.

15 min Mar 26, 2026
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