I suppose I need to start out by acknowledging that I’m not capable of pushing these updates out at a regular cadence; there’s always something “more important” to work on! Perhaps it’ll continue to be a trend that I start out these posts with some semblance of an apology for how long it’s been since the last one. Glad that’s out of the way.
As some of you...
2022-04-15 18:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I wrote our last blog post early this year, my intention was to write them monthly moving forward. As you may have noticed, that hasn’t exactly happened! Whenever I sit down at my computer to work on Apollo, I inevitably go straight to the code as I want to bring you guys new features. Moving forward, I might aim for an update at least once a quarter. I’d love to do monthly, but I know...
2021-06-23 19:57:42 +0000 UTC View Post2020 was quite the year; I don't need to go into the reasons why. But amidst it all, Apollo was able to help connect people from all over the world, something I'm very grateful to have played a part in. But even more so, I'm grateful for all of you!
I wanted to take some time to highlight the places we've been in 2020, and to paint a picture of my plans for Apollo moving forward into 202...
Today we completed a migration of Apollo from one of our personal AWS (Amazon Web Services) account, to a new account just for Apollo. Doesn't sound super exciting I know, but there's a neat story behind it for those interested in the technical bits of Apollo.
When we first set up Apollo, we weren't really thinking long term; we just set it up on a personal account and called it a day. I...
Today we launched Apollo Premium. A journey that started at the beginning of the year is at a close, but another is just beginning.
The idea for a Premium tier first came to me early this year when we were migrating Apollo to AWS with a managed database, which ended up costing significantly more than we were paying previously. We did this for a good reason though. Earlier this year, Apol...
The release of configurable signup options, while a nice thing to have, was really only done to pave the way for custom role signups.
Next steps for me are to add a way for Premium servers to define their own custom signup options. This will be interesting, as it’ll be the first time that we have limited a certain functionality based on being a Patron. Interesting technically, but also ...
2020-05-24 04:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post