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#134 -- Zstd Compression and Blob Garbage Collection
How FLIN uses Zstandard compression and garbage collection to keep storage efficient.
#191 -- JavaScript and TypeScript Compatibility
How FLIN bridges the gap for JavaScript and TypeScript developers with familiar syntax.
#140 -- Observability and Monitoring
Built-in observability for FLIN applications -- request logging, error tracking, performance metrics, and health checks.
#196 -- 301 Sessions in 40 Days: The Complete Timeline
The complete timeline of 301 development sessions over 40 days building FLIN.
#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.
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.
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.
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.
#172 -- The FLIN Formatter and Linting
Built-in code formatting and linting for FLIN -- no external tools needed.
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.
From Abidjan to Production: Launching 0cron.dev
The full story of building 0cron.dev: 3 sessions, 4 agents, 3,500+ lines of Rust, a SvelteKit dashboard, Stripe billing, and an admin system -- all from Abidjan with zero human engineers.
"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.