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Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building.

This isn't the hundredth report I was planning to write.

I wrote my previous report so sure I was close to the finish line of moving off Vapor. I was so happy that I'd nail the timing. The title wrote itself, "Ymir Report #100 — Ymir on Ymir". (That's a lot of "Ymir" in the same sentence! 🤣)

But life is nothing but full of irony. The day after I sent that report, my burnout started. At first, it was the autistic kind, but then it morphed into a full-blown burnout. I couldn't bring myself to open my laptop to work on anything.

I love saying I'm well acquainted with burnout. I've talked about it over the years in my reviews. Ironically, I was talking about burnout with my therapist before I left for PressConf. I thought I'd avoided it, but alas. 🙃

I'll keep the full explanation for the year in review. While not without blame, Ymir isn't the sole reason I burnt out. I think everyone can feel that this year is a lot for various reasons. But I'm sure working 7 days a week for 5 months didn't help! 🤣

I'm lucky that I could afford to do nothing for a few weeks. My main consulting client told me to rest, and everything was going well with the partnership. So I just shut my brain off and played video games for a few weeks. (Mainly Division 2 if you're curious!)

In a way, I think burnout is probably the more appropriate milestone. I'm always talking about running a marathon instead of a sprint. I definitely haven't been running a marathon the last few months. This was a reminder that you can't sprint indefinitely.

I'm back to working on Ymir now after doing some consulting work. (Still need that consulting money!) I've done some bug fixes and am back to working on PostgreSQL support now. Still taking it easy compared to before, but the worst has passed.

We should be back to the regular report format soon!

Carl