Ymir Report #101 ā PostgreSQL support
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Slowly getting back into the groove of things. I'm not working as hard as before the burnout. I still have days where I work for an hour and that fries my brain. I still get the itch to work on the product though! So I've been just doing smaller chunks of work. That still lets me ship things like PostgreSQL support! PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. PostgreSQL support was something I dropped for the initial Laravel release. I figured if I had customers who needed it, I'd build it. That was the right call because I still don't have any Laravel Vapor customers š That said, I want to move Ymir to PostgreSQL as part of the migration to Ymir. So it was time to build the feature out. As with a lot of things related to Laravel support, I'd hardcoded a lot of MySQL things into the product. That required some architectural changes. That's all done now! I've been running some test migrations of the Ymir database to PostgreSQL. Everything seems good on that front. š„³ MARKETING WordCamp Europe was last week. It's the first one I've missed since I started going in 2017. I'm filled with conflicting feelings about it. It was the right call both financially and because I'm not really over this burnout. But I also really believe in serendipity and the power of in-person networking. So there's this FOMO feeling of "What if I'd been there?" While I'm not doing much on the marketing front right now, I keep thinking about it. The Ymir rebrand will come after I move off Vapor. I think the product identity is fine and resonating well based on the talks I give. I just keep thinking about distribution and reach. AI didn't solve this. If anything, looking at what's happening in WordPress, the online conversations I read, it all seems harder than ever. There's even more noise to break through. I also think about leverage. I'm so much better at B2B in-person sales than I am at this guerrilla marketing you need for B2C. I still want to do both, but it makes me glad for the partnership. It's the only place where I feel I have an impact atm. Anyways, there are just some thoughts I've been having lately. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Nothing much going on here. I had an inactive customer cancel. No new trials. Carl |
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām 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 ā Ymir on Ymir". (That's a lot of "Ymir" in the same sentence! š¤£) But life is nothing but full of irony. The day after I sent that report, my...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Been a little while since the last report! Unfortunately, not much has happened since the last update. I got a pretty nasty cold that knocked me out for more than a week. I then had to shift to consulting work to pay my bills. š Following the consulting work, I flew out to Phoenix for PressConf. I'll talk more about it later. But Raquel created an exceptional...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO This is the report I've been waiting to write for so long. Laravel support is finally here! I shipped the last part yesterday, which was the new CLI version. (You need version 2.1.0 to create a Laravel project.) This is an important milestone, but there's still work to do. The next phase is to migrate Ymir to Ymir. There's still some missing pieces for that to...