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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.
Six Languages, One Platform: i18n for Africa
French, English, Arabic (with RTL), Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish. How we built internationalization for a continent with hundreds of languages.
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.
#001 -- Why We Built a Programming Language From Scratch
Why Juste Thales Gnimavo and AI CTO Claude built FLIN, a programming language replacing 47 technologies, from Abidjan.
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.
#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.
#019 -- Error Diagnostics That Actually Help
How FLIN's error diagnostics help developers: source locations, colored output, and human-readable messages.
#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.
#006 -- Why We Chose Rust to Build a Programming Language
Why Juste Thales Gnimavo and Claude chose Rust to build the FLIN programming language compiler from Abidjan.
#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.
#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.
#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.