Notes from the trenches on PHP, Symfony, PrestaShop, CI/CD, and shipping production software — by Tom Girou, Senior Lead Dev.https://tom-girou.dev/enhttps://tom-girou.dev/blog/forgemage-native-share-sheet/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/forgemage-native-share-sheet/The share button on Forgemage.net's request detail page opens the OS share sheet wherever the operating system has one — Android, iOS, Windows, macOS — copies the link where it doesn't, and stays quiet when you simply change your mind. Here's the whole implementation: navigator.share with three strings, an AbortError guard that falls through instead of catching, a clipboard fallback with an execCommand fallback under it, and the one-letter Symfony detail that decides whether the shared link works at all.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTJavaScriptWeb Share APISymfonyTwigProgressive Enhancementhttps://tom-girou.dev/blog/forgemage-search-n1-queries/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/forgemage-search-n1-queries/Forgemage.net's smithmagus directory ran roughly seven queries per card — reviews, response time, online status, three lazy relations — plus facet counts recomputed on every filter tweak. Here's how I got a page of 24 cards from ~168 queries down to a handful, with a request-scoped batch cache and a paginate-then-hydrate pass, without touching the single-profile pages.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSymfonyDoctrinePHPPerformanceN+1https://tom-girou.dev/blog/markdown-for-agents/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/markdown-for-agents/Cloudflare converts pages to markdown for AI agents via Accept: text/markdown — on paid plans. The same HTTP contract fits in a 144-line Symfony event subscriber. My homepage went from 59 KB of HTML to 7.7 KB of markdown, same URL.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSymfonyPHPAI AgentsHTTPSEOhttps://tom-girou.dev/blog/claude-code-from-my-phone/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/claude-code-from-my-phone/Claude Code's /remote-control mirrors one session to your phone. SSH over Tailscale hands you the whole workstation: resume sessions, start new ones in any repo, tail logs, restart containers — with nothing exposed to the internet.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTClaude CodeTailscaleSSHAndroidWorkflowhttps://tom-girou.dev/blog/repo-wrapped/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/repo-wrapped/A weekend idea — a shareable stats page and README badge for any GitHub repo and contributor — turned into a fight with GitHub's stats API: 202s that never resolve, a top-100 wall, and a first-commit lookup you have to trick out of a header.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaravelPHPGitHub APICachingSide Projecthttps://tom-girou.dev/blog/ai-codebase-portal-for-pms/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/ai-codebase-portal-for-pms/Why I built a read-only AI analyst that lets project managers ask questions about a codebase and have a Jira ticket filed for them automatically — and why the whole thing only works because the AI can read but never write.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTClaudeAgent SDKDeveloper ToolsJiraPrestaShophttps://tom-girou.dev/blog/claude-gitlab-ai-review/https://tom-girou.dev/blog/claude-gitlab-ai-review/How I wired Claude into the merge-request pipeline of an old, self-hosted GitLab, and why the whole design hangs on never letting the AI both read an untrusted diff and hold a token at the same time.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTCI/CDGitLabClaudeCode ReviewSecurity