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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
flinreplacementreactnextjs +3
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
deblofile-generationpdfxlsx +3
Thales & Claude sh0

Preventing Command Injection in a PaaS

A PaaS runs user-provided commands by design. Here is how we built validate_command() to prevent shell injection in cron jobs, deploy hooks, and Docker exec.

12 min Mar 26, 2026
securitycommand-injectionrustpaas +2
Thales & Claude flin

#115 -- Custom Guards and Security Middleware

How FLIN developers create custom guards and security middleware for application-specific access control -- verified email guards, subscription checks, IP restrictions, and audit logging.

7 min Mar 26, 2026
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Thales & Claude deblo

Observability: Tracking Every LLM Call in Production

AILog tracks every LLM call. SystemSetting enables config without redeploy. ExerciseResult measures learning. The admin dashboard behind the obscured route.

15 min Mar 26, 2026
debloobservabilityailogadmin +2
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 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
debloretrospectiveabidjanbuild-in-public +2
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
flinprogramming-languagecomplexityweb-development +1
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
debloragpgvectorembeddings +2
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
deblobackground-jobsasyncioredis +2
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
flindesignprinciplesreactive +3
Thales & Claude deblo

101 AI Advisors: Professional Intelligence for Africa

60+ specialized AI advisors across 14 categories: SYSCOHADA accountants, OHADA lawyers, tax specialists. How we built professional intelligence for Africa.

13 min Mar 26, 2026
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