Heya friend!

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

INTRO

It would be a great story if I told you that now that this deal with BuiltFast changed my fortunes overnight! I never expected it to. So we're back to our regularly scheduled programming! 🤣

The months of negotiations were quite draining for me. I've spent some time trying to rest. But I've also had to do a lot of consulting work since that's still what pays my bills.

I'm back at a place now where I can alternate more between consulting and Ymir like I was doing before. So I'm working on some logging improvements which I'll hopefully have wrapped up when by the next report.

Laravel support is still coming, but I don't think I'll hit my Vapor renewal milestone, unfortunately. I haven't been able to go back to the CLI refactor and the context switch back to that will be rough.

PRODUCT

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

I'm working on some logging improvements right now. The work has multiple parts:

1. Add access logs to CloudFront that get sent to the environment's private S3 bucket.
2. Applying the progressive configuration complexity to the logging option. So the root option would be the default for everything. Then you can edit specific nodes if you want more control.
3. Retire the log_retention_period (add a warning and maintain BC) and move it under the logging option.

I'm still working on the first part as that's the heaviest lift by far. Progress is coming along well. I was a bit slower than expected since I wasn't aware when I started that AWS had a new logging standard. So I'd started implementing the old way of doing CloudFront logging.

MARKETING

Not much marketing right now. Doing a podcast with BuiltFast this week about the partnership. I'd love to find some other podcasts to go on to talk about it.

I'm using marketing time to do my year in review right now. It's my 11th one and it might end up being the longest one I've ever written. I think right now the longest one was 10,000 words. 🤯

A lot happened to me this year! It wasn't just the BuiltFast partnership. (Although that's a big one!) But I had some health/personal issues, went to some new conferences, etc. I want to talk about AI some as I seem to be ahead of the curve somewhat on how I use it and I've now done a few consulting calls about it.

BUSINESS

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

I gained one customer! 🥳 I also had to do all the prep work for my taxes. Exciting stuff! 😅

Carl