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I have stopped calling myself a full stack developer, because the meaning and the role are kind of ambiguous now. Clients don't know what they can talk to me about (everything), and PMs seem to be unsure of what I can be assigned to (anything).

In fairness as well, the frontend tooling landscape has become so complex that while I'm capable of jumping in, I am in no way an efficient fronted developer off the rip.

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The tooling has become complex, sure, but so have capabilities and expectations.

I used to “make websites” in the 2000s, then stopped for about 15 years to focus on backend and infrastructure.

Have been getting back into front end the last few months — there was a good bit of learning and unlearning, but the modern web stack is amazingly productive. Next.js, Tailwind, and Supabase in particular.

Last time I checked in to frontend dev, CSS directives fit on an A4 sheet, valid XHTML was a nerd flex and rounded corners were painstakingly crafted from tables and gifs.

Frontend is a dream now :)

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