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

INTRO

I've been hard at work trying to wrap up Laravel support. I'm close enough that I can start talking about it and marketing it. (Yes, marketing! 🤣) I started a waitlist so that I can contact anyone who's interested when it's shipped in beta.

My goal is to migrate Ymir in March if all goes well.

PRODUCT

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

You know when you think you're almost done, and in fact, you are not. That's how I feel about Laravel support! 🤣

I thought most of the work was the CLI rewrite. Well, the PHP runtime needed a very serious architecture upgrade as well. I still haven't released it, but here's how it's going so far:

This is only one of the many facets of what I'm working on. The Laravel bridge package will get its 1.0 release. The CLI also got some work done. There's a new Monolog bridge package to format logs for CloudWatch. Useful for Laravel, but also if you use Wonolog. There's also work being done on the platform itself.

So yeah, lots going on! 😅

I've been feeling a lot of pressure to ship this and have been working 7 days a week. I'm feeling a burnout coming so I'm going to dial it back a bit. There's also consulting work I have to go back to and I have a conference at the end of the month.

That said, I'm pretty close to shipping a beta. I've got my Laravel demo deployed. I also have artisan commands working.

There's a few kinks left, but I think I can get it done this week. After that, I'll probably have to shift to consulting and other things for a bit.

MARKETING

Okay, some marketing going on! I wanted to start a waitlist and share it on the Laravel subreddit. Unfortunately, I couldn't, so I just posted what I wanted to post on Twitter.

Carl Alexander @twigpress I wanted to post about @YmirApp in /r/Laravel since I'm so close to being done. But I can't so I'll just share it the post I wrote here 😅 3:17 PM • Feb 10, 2026 0 Retweets 1 Likes Read 1 replies

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Would definitely appreciate a retweet if you want to help out!

Besides that, I'm speaking about serverless at a conference in Montreal at the end of the month. Need to start working on updating my slides for that! 😅

Another podcast I recorded last year came out last week! I had a lot of fun doing it with Paul Carter, the CEO of BuiltFast. I think another podcast is coming soon, but it's not out yet.

BUSINESS

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

Gained a customer last month and lost one this month. Nothing else going on that side besides doing my corporate taxes! 💸

Carl