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The author is a backend developer whose tech stack (as described in his profile) is: C# Python C++ Django Git Jenkins Docker Kubernetes Also s

by Tade0 4y ago

The author is a backend developer whose tech stack (as described in his profile) is: C# Python C++ Django Git Jenkins Docker Kubernetes Also sort of a web dinosaur here (remember when VRML was supposed to change the web forever?). Even today 90% of the web is static pages with JS sprinkled on top because much of the process of creating that was automated years ago. Contrary to popular belief people aren't actually that generous in their usage of SPAs because it's expensive. Also while React has the highest market share, it's not the only framework out there.

solardev 4y ago
What's really saddened me isn't so much the inevitable change in tech stacks, but the incredible centralization of websites. There isn't really meaningfully a "web" anymore. For most people the internet is just FAANG and that's it. Indie sites and good personal projects are totally gone, replaced by click bait and Medium SEO spam. It's just a corporate hellhole now, with Facebook owning the frontend via React, Google and Apple owning the hardware, and Amazon owning the network. I miss those one person passion project pages that you used to be able to find on Yahoo.
- marc_io 4y ago
  I think the “web” is still very strong, but it is now extremely commercial. If a person wants to create a website these days is mainly for business purposes. Pretty much all other uses had migrated to the FAANG (or MAANG, rather).
- bityard 4y ago
  It feels weird to read this on HN, where a sizeable fraction of the links on the front page often go to websites built by internet randos. If you're talking about web sites as art projects, there are communities like that although they are fairly small. Neocities is one of the more prominent ones. The small web still exists, but you have to stray quite a way off the beaten path to find it.
  - solardev 4y ago
    I don't mean art projects per se, but websites about some personal project that isn't tech or engineering focused. Somebody's story, or esoteric research thing, or personal thoughts on a random topic, etc. These days that sort of stuff seems to be in reddit or Facebook or other curated communities, not really on the web as individual pages. Like most content is now controlled by, what, 5 to 10 corporations?
- Tade0 4y ago
  I think this web is still there somewhere, it's just that in the meantime FAANG et consortes started expanding at an exponential rate, so on one hand there's a lot more web out there, on the other the fraction of it that looks like the old web fell drastically.

by Tade0 4y ago

solardev 4y ago

What's really saddened me isn't so much the inevitable change in tech stacks, but the incredible centralization of websites. There isn't really meaningfully a "web" anymore. For most people the internet is just FAANG and that's it. Indie sites and good personal projects are totally gone, replaced by click bait and Medium SEO spam. It's just a corporate hellhole now, with Facebook owning the frontend via React, Google and Apple owning the hardware, and Amazon owning the network. I miss those one person passion project pages that you used to be able to find on Yahoo.

marc_io 4y ago
I think the “web” is still very strong, but it is now extremely commercial. If a person wants to create a website these days is mainly for business purposes. Pretty much all other uses had migrated to the FAANG (or MAANG, rather).
bityard 4y ago
It feels weird to read this on HN, where a sizeable fraction of the links on the front page often go to websites built by internet randos. If you're talking about web sites as art projects, there are communities like that although they are fairly small. Neocities is one of the more prominent ones. The small web still exists, but you have to stray quite a way off the beaten path to find it.
- solardev 4y ago
  I don't mean art projects per se, but websites about some personal project that isn't tech or engineering focused. Somebody's story, or esoteric research thing, or personal thoughts on a random topic, etc. These days that sort of stuff seems to be in reddit or Facebook or other curated communities, not really on the web as individual pages. Like most content is now controlled by, what, 5 to 10 corporations?
Tade0 4y ago
I think this web is still there somewhere, it's just that in the meantime FAANG et consortes started expanding at an exponential rate, so on one hand there's a lot more web out there, on the other the fraction of it that looks like the old web fell drastically.