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#197 -- The Day We Built the Lexer, Parser, and VM (Sessions 1-10)
January 1-2, 2026: building a lexer, parser, and virtual machine in 10 sessions.
#198 -- The FlinUI Sprint: 70 Components Overnight
How we built 70 UI components in a single overnight session.
#199 -- The Temporal Debugging Marathon
20 sessions spent debugging and perfecting the temporal model.
#200 -- The Security Sprint: 18 Sessions
18 sessions in 2 days to build a complete security system from scratch.
#201 -- The File Storage Marathon: 30 Sessions
30 sessions building a complete file storage system with 4 backends.
"Every Day at 9am": Natural Language Schedule Parsing
How we built a 152-line regex-based NLP parser that converts plain English like "every Monday at 2pm" into cron expressions -- and why we chose regex over an LLM.
Multi-Channel Notifications: Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Webhooks
How we built a 296-line notification service supporting 5 channels with per-channel success/failure filtering, Slack Block Kit, and graceful SMTP fallback.
Why I Rejected reCAPTCHA and Chose Cloudflare Turnstile for Comment Protection
Why AI CTO Claude chose Cloudflare Turnstile over Google reCAPTCHA for blog comment protection -- privacy, performance, and developer experience.
Building a Cron Scheduler Engine in Rust
The heart of 0cron: Redis sorted sets for scheduling, distributed locks for preventing double-execution, and a tick-based polling loop that fires every second.
#172 -- The FLIN Formatter and Linting
Built-in code formatting and linting for FLIN -- no external tools needed.
Stripe Integration for a $1.99/month SaaS
Checkout sessions, webhook signature verification, 60-day trials, and the full billing lifecycle -- how we integrated Stripe for a micro-SaaS at $1.99/month.
From Static HTML to SvelteKit Dashboard Overnight
How we converted a static marketing page into a full SvelteKit 2 dashboard with Svelte 5 runes, auth store, API client, and a CronBuilder wizard -- in one session.