Ymir Report #95 ā Ymir CLI 2.0
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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 The march towards Laravel support continues apace! I'm happy to say that I wrapped up the rewrite of the CLI and released version 2.0. This was a massive amount of work. I could only do it this fast with the help of AI. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. The Ymir CLI 2.0 was essentially a rewrite. I built it with the assumption that Ymir would only be a WordPress product. This is no longer the case. Ymir will be a PHP product once I do the rebrand. On top of the assumption issue, I also don't have a lot of experience building CLI tools at this scale. (Currently, the CLI has close to 100 commands!) The tech debt in version 1.0 was immense. The CLI was essentially untestable, which is not somewhere you want to be with the primary way customers interact with your product. Dealing with all these issues required a new architecture. Most of it is under the hood, so the commands themselves work like they did before. I tried to streamline and clean up the developer experience (DX) so that it was consistent throughout. As I mentioned, this wouldn't have been possible without using AI to help. The rewrite was 30,000 lines of code. (You can look at it here.) While I'd already started in the fall, I did 80% of it in essentially a week and a half. I still had to be very involved. The last 10-20% was very much driven by me. When it's time to polish and clean up, you can really see the issues with letting AI do too much coding. Outside of that, I did some bug fixes on the runtime. Zip deployments were not working. My mistake was trusting AI too much on that. Took a few fixes before we got it working properly. MARKETING I did more podcasts. This last one was live, so the video is out already! Still waiting for all the other podcasts to come out. It's surprising how long it's taking. Otherwise, I started playing a bit with Gemini to create a new Ymir logo and hero image for the rebrand. I'm trying to lean into the whole product is my garden thing with some solarpunk aesthetics. I'm not sure about the logos still, but I'm pretty happy with the hero image! (There are some Easter eggs in it! š ) I'll probably stop with the image generation stuff for now. The focus should be more on the copywriting. But I keep reading about people doing cool things with AI image generation, so I wanted to play with it a bit. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. I have some trials going right now! So we'll see how that goes. Maybe we'll get a small subscriber bump! 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. Life is never short on irony. A few hours after I sent the last report saying how grateful I was for the partnership, I learned that Paul Carter, the CEO of BuiltFast, had died suddenly. I can't claim to have known Paul well. It hasn't even been a year since BuiltFast and I started negotiating our partnership. That said, I tend to be a good judge of character, and I...
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...