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August 5, 2026

Maybe the “Webmaster” Isn’t Dead After All · Jens Oliver Meiert

At the time [1990s], there was a new breed of web professionals proudly labeled “webmasters.” Part designer, part developer and part evangelist, webmasters held enough esoteric knowledge about the web to manage, edit and create websites, both large and small.
—Jay Hoffmann: The History of the Web, Volume I (2018).

Yes I wanted to be one when I was 14.

I believe that with the advent of AI, we are about to experience a renaissance. AI-augmented developers are operating well beyond the traditional scope of even a full-stack engineer. [...] AI enables and leverages, but the webmaster orchestrates and takes the responsibility.

Web Security is Too Hard – text/plain

How phishing attacks are hard to distinguish because even real pages looks suspicious

rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy | Inside Rust Blog

Five Rust working groups stance on the AI usage on Rust lang