Ymir Report #80 ā PHP 8.4 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 Heya! It's been a little while since the last report. December was super busy and then I had some unfortunate events during the holiday and in January which delayed a lot of stuff. I'm still not done writing my year in review because of them š«£š There's actually been quite a bit of work done on the product since the last update. The biggest new feature is PHP 8.4 support. I tried getting it out in December last year, but there were unforeseen issues that pushed it to this January. Otherwise, business is flat. No trials, no churn, no new subscriptions. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Busy last two months on the product front. Lots of small bug fixes to the PHP runtime and the build process. This culminated with adding PHP 8.4 support. Ymir now supports 8 (!!) PHP versions which is wild. The Ymir CLI was the other major recipient of bug fixes and features. I added support for Podman as an alternative to the Docker client. Docker made some breaking changes that don't play well with Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For now, Podman allows things to continue working normally. I also finished the refactor of the database export and import commands. They now use PHP instead of being wrappers around mysql and mysqldump commands. This should make them less error prone from now on. MARKETING I've been bad and hadn't updated the reports page or the changelog in a while. (I do it manually.) Reports page wasn't so bad, but the change log was missing 10+ entries. I hadn't updated it since September! š Still trying to sit down with 40Q to write the case study. Hopefully, I can get some traction on that in the next month. I want more case studies. Hopefully, I can start putting some logos on the marketing site too! Otherwise, I'll be heading to CloudFest in March. I'm trying to speak, but I'll be taking part in the hackathon at the very least. My goal is to network there and see how Ymir might fit in the larger hosting landscape. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Nothing new on the business side besides that I still love the product and working on it! I'm writing larger thoughts in my year in review. So stay tuned for that. 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 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...
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...