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I'm Clément Rigo, a Consultant CTO for startups. I'm a self-taught Web Developper, coach and teacher. My main work is helping and guiding digital startups. I also keep a public journal of everything I learn doing it, for over fourteen years and counting.

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FEATURED · Web Development Jul 01, 2026

A clean Laravel wrapper for the IGDB game database API

I have a soft spot for side projects that involve video games, so when I was browsing my GitHub stars the other day I rediscovered messerli90/igdb , a little Laravel package I had bookmarked a while ago. If you ever wanted to pull game data (titles...

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Personal · Web Development

The One Fact : a daily dose of Tolkien lore, self-hosted

The One Fact I love The Lord of the Rings more than I'd like to admit, yet I still stumble on things I didn't know about the legendarium, or things I knew but forgot. So I built a tiny web app to scratch that itch: The One Fact , a self-hosted...

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Management · Web Development

How Shopify's Billing API Requirement Forced Us to Build Something We Didn't Need

I didn't want to write this post. I wanted to spend those hours on actual product work. But the experience we had getting our Shopify app approved was strange enough (and specific enough) that I think it's worth documenting for other SaaS builders w...

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