Heya friend!

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

INTRO

Smaller gap between updates this time!

There's been some good progress with adding Radicle support to Ymir. I'll talk about it more in the product section. But I've been having a lot of fun puttering on Ymir.

I also finally wrapped up my year in review! There are some new thoughts on Ymir there, like the importance of not dying. But also the need to branch out and work on supporting other project types like Radicle.

PRODUCT

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

So I have a Radicle installation working!

I'm largely done writing the code to support Radicle. There's a new event handler in the runtime. The WordPress plugin and the CLI also needed some changes to support the Radicle project type. I still haven't tagged any releases yet.

Since the whole point of Radicle is to run Laravel inside WordPress, I had to look at making Ymir work with Laravel. This required a brand new Laravel bridge package, which I made public over the weekend. It's not a 1.0 release because I don't support important things like queues yet.

The last step is to wrap up the Ymir code related to Radicle. I'm still missing extensive testing there. It's a bit time consuming to write those tests because each test takes minutes to run.

Radicle has also highlighted significant architectural issues. I'm nearing the limit of what I can do in the CLI and Laravel application to support more project types. I'd never really designed that part of Ymir to scale well if I wanted to add more project types.

But that's the direction I'm going so I'll need to do some important refactoring there. That'll be the next major thing on my plate afterwards.

MARKETING

Some movement on marketing! I had a meeting with 40Q and have what I need to write the case study for OHNY. That's also on my plate for the coming weeks.

I've also booked everything for CloudFest is also in the books. I'll be there for the conference, but also the hackathon over the weekend. This is a big business trip for me and Ymir. We'll see what happens!

BUSINESS

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

Business is still stable. I had a promising trial, but nothing ended up happening.

Carl