Heya friend!

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

INTRO

It's been a longer than I'd liked since the last update. Unfortunately, I had someone close to me pass away two weeks ago. They were in their 30s, and it was unexpected. I'll talk more about it when I do my year in review.

I spent a lot of time the past two weeks with their family. The time I had left, I used to work for consulting clients. So there hasn't been a lot of work on Ymir.

That said, I had some updates to share before this all happened. So I'll share those today.

PRODUCT

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

I had a customer who had a feature request for the image processing function. They needed a way to the disable the webp conversion for newsletters. This was a small change in itself.

That said, I hadn't touched the image processing code in over a year. There was a lot of maintenance work that I'd held off doing. I used this opportunity to do it all. From adding a comprehensive test suite to upgrading to the latest AWS SDK. (The one I was using was at EOL.)

There were a few bumps with the entire process. I unfortunately had two customers affected. I hope the test suite helps prevent this from happening again in the future.

Besides that, I fixed a small issue with the runtime that was causing deprecation notices in the logs.

MARKETING

I'm still committed to doing coding livestreams. I did two more since my first one. The last one I worked on supporting North Commerce.

I'm still enjoying doing those and was going to do a fourth one the other weekend. That said, with everything that happened, I wasn't feeling quite up for it. I'd like to do one this weekend.

There's some more marketing efforts coming. Mostly to prepare for rebranding to supporting more PHP applications.

BUSINESS

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

I had a discussion with a customer that's making me rethink the whole idea of building in public. It's a discussion that will take me a bit of time to process. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

Otherwise, everything is business as usual.

Carl