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 busy month for me with Ymir and consulting! The most exciting thing is that Ymir sponsored its first WordCamp! 🥳 It was a cool milestone for me and I need to put it on the open dashboard when I have a moment.

Laravel support is progressing at a good pace. I've wrapped up the refactoring of the deployment code. It was a huge undertaking and involved about 12,000 lines of code over both phases of the refactor! 🤯

I had a customer sign back up which is nice! Otherwise, still quiet on the business side.

PRODUCT

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

Been really having a great time doing this refactor! I leveraged AI a lot to do it. Mainly, I used Gemini Pro a lot as a peer to discuss architectural decisions and provide a healthy debate and pushback. I've also been playing with Cursor (with Sonnet 4 and Gemini Pro) for the past month and it helped generate tests around the refactor.

As I shared, the refactor was huge. It involved about 12,000 lines of code. I was able to significantly rework some of the testing I did around deployments. This allowed me to increase test coverage while reducing the test suite run time by several hours. 🚀

I've also tackled a lot of bug fixes in the backlog. I'm also taking a breather to perform some maintenance on the Ymir Laravel app. For example, I'm working on upgrading it to Laravel 12.

Really feeling the puttering vibe these days with Ymir. It's been great! 🪴💖

MARKETING

As I mentioned, Ymir sponsored its first WordCamp! It's a bummer that I couldn't go to it. That said, it was a small, but important milestone for me. Supporting WordCamps was always something I wanted to do with my company. 🥹

As with anyone that sponsored WordCamps before knows, you don't do it for the ROI. I didn't see any sign ups or anything on my end. But that's not why I did it.

I mentioned I was in a puttering mood. This would have been a good time to do some livestreams! Unfortunately, I'm really close to an autistic burnout right now and it feels really overwhelming to do a coding livestream.

It comes down to really wanting to be an engaging streamer. For that, I need to talk about what I'm thinking and doing live and not be silent. But when I'm in a more burnt out state like right now, it goes from something I do naturally to something that is quite challenging.

I'm aware that me not wanting to talk might sound crazy to everyone who knows me! 🤣

BUSINESS

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

I'll keep this section brief since there's nothing much to say. I had a previous customer come back. They asked to get grandfathered back to the legacy plan. I allowed it if they retroactively paid for their subscription until now.

Carl