Ymir Report #71 ā Maintenance and upgrades
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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 Hey there! It's been a few weeks since my last update. My time in Japan wasn't as productive as I'd hoped it to be. The time zone wasn't friendly to me this time around and I wasn't able to get into a good work groove.Because of that, I mainly focused on consulting work and had nothing to share related to Ymir. I did manage to get some work done towards the end of my time there. Most of it focused on maintenance work. The frontend got some much needed love. I'll talk more about it in the product section. Otherwise, business is stable. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Most of the product work done this month was around maintenance of the Ymir code base. I've done a lot of consulting work where product owners don't do this work, and I have to come in and clean everything up. I want to stay on top of it so that doesn't happen. (Also my product is my garden so I can do what I want š) The largest and most time-consuming upgrade was Livewire 3. Livewire 3 was a complete rewrite of Livewire. A lot of stuff broke. I'm thankful for my test suite for finding everything. š I upgraded Ymir to Laravel 11. Fun fact, Ymir started as a Laravel 6 application. So this is my fifth upgrade. I do them every major release. I also did some frontend upgrades. Mostly just making sure Tailwind is up to date. I added some linting tools to help clean up the frontend code. These upgrades made the frontend feel a lot snappier. I still could do some more performance optimization there. But mainly I wanted to get to a point where I could release frontend changes at a faster pace. This is where I want to focus most of my energy over the coming months. MARKETING I wasn't able to get in touch with Ryan in the last month. So no progress on the case study. I hope to get that done soon. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Small growth this month. But I'd say the business is stable at the moment. I'm still working on closing my first enterprise customer. I hope this can happen in the next month. They'd have a cool case study for Ymir as well, which is exciting! 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. 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...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. On February 19th, 2021, I wrote the first Ymir report. I had in mind that I'd try to do a report on February 19th to celebrate the five-year milestone. As you can see, I wasn't able to do it. š The reason was that I wrapped up my gigantic 14,000 word year in review two days before. I was and still am quite drained from the endeavour. 2025 was an eventful year for me...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO I've been hard at work trying to wrap up Laravel support. I'm close enough that I can start talking about it and marketing it. (Yes, marketing! š¤£) I started a waitlist so that I can contact anyone who's interested when it's shipped in beta. My goal is to migrate Ymir in March if all goes well. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product...