Heya friend!

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

INTRO

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, I'm sure you're aware of the PHP security vulnerability that dropped last Wednesday!

It was a stressful day for many people. For me, it wasn't so much. I'd been working on automating a lot of things with the runtime already so that AI could work autonomously on it. Once PHP released the versions with the fixes, my agents coordinated and handled the release.

Otherwise, it was a slow two weeks for Ymir. I was busy travelling for my 20th college reunion. I also had some other things going on that I can't talk about yet.

PRODUCT

You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.

Since the last report, I shipped the health checks for WordPress. So we're wrapped up for that. Otherwise, the only product work was fixing the runtime for the PHP2Shell exploit.

I'll be shifting back to work on observability and more marketing work.

I'm also thinking a lot about security. What happened last week is just the beginning. AI will fundamentally change security on the internet. I think it's a great opportunity for Ymir.

My current view is that serverless is one of the most secure ways to host applications as AI threats increase. They're disposable, isolated environments with no file access. Something like PHP2Shell is a lot harder to exploit with serverless.

MARKETING

Nothing new on the marketing side. I have more plans, but nothing live yet. I think the first step is to update the blog design, so I can wrap the redesign project.

BUSINESS

You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.

The business side is quiet as well. Still working on bringing on help with sales. There's something in the pipeline for the partnership as well.

Carl