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SysMaster: The Webmaster Evolution

DEV Community·Eduardo Lázaro·about 1 month ago
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I'm thinking of changing my professional title to "webmaster" . And no, it's not nostalgia In the early 2000s, being a webmaster meant uploading HTML over FTP, tweaking PHP you barely understood, taming an Apache that broke every Wednesday, and writing the copy yourself. One person handled content, code, server, design. There was no specialisation because there was nothing to specialise in: if you wanted a website, you did everything. Then came the professionalisation. Frontend dev. Backend dev. DevOps. SRE. UX. Content strategist. Product manager. Each discipline closed in on itself, with its own rituals, stacks and conferences. "Webmaster" came to sound like a guy in sandals running a 90s site with frames and a broken hit counter. Then, after the mobile, React, Vue... era, the LLMs arrived. What changed Today, in an afternoon, I can spin up a Laravel app with auth, write 200 texts in seven languages, build a dashboard, a custom CRM, integrate Stripe and ship it to a VPS.…

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