It has already started a few years ago. Websites are losing relevance for the internet, the budget is getting smaller and smaller, #WordPress websites all look the same.

Occasionally one reaches deep into his pocket for the perfect website. But in a world, where hosting costs nothing more, where OpenSource CMS together have the biggest share in the net, new solutions become necessary. I mean do you really still visit the websites of a newspaper?

On the other hand, will we get our information from a website? Does not everything that is important to us will be moved to the chat app? In the chat app I have friends, accounting apps, news channels, support and cat videos. It will be exciting what I don’t have yet: Excel lists for calculation, I can’t buy tickets yet, I can’t order pizza or plan routes, although all that would be possible. This is unfortunately one of the reasons why I don’t care about updating my #WordPress plugins or my own websites. Other reasons are that I already work full time as a WordPress developer anyway and prefer to concentrate on “the more modern”.

But on the other hand, I also see this cloudification as a big danger. It will certainly have worse effects than the climate in the next few years. Or 5G will be part of the climate problem, where I am actually already sure. The problems are still in the dark. We will soon see how it comes.

n my job, something new happens every day. But I am actually only a web developer.
But the internet in its present form is super unstable. It doesn’t all work right away and a lot of unexpected things happen every day.
A concept that was good yesterday might turn out to be junk today. A system that was perfect yesterday might not work today. The technology everyone uses may not be up to date or ahead of its time. An example: Whatsapp. So if it’s still written in Erlang, it’s pretty 80s, but everybody uses it. Or parent company Facebook: Distributes data illegally to analytics companies. And as if that wasn’t enough, what’s Facebook technology doing in #WordPress? #WordPress is not suitable for this from the backend. It is simply programmed over it, regardless of losses. In our company philosophy, good code comes first. But with the uncertainties of external software this is hardly possible anymore. The times when you wrote everything yourself are over. #WordPress as a basic framework for everything is actually a good idea. But why this editor? That’s why this website no longer exists as an independent website, it integrates Telegram directly. What do I need other apps for anymore?

The pace at which the world is changing has increased rapidly. And it is an opportunity on the one hand, a danger on the other.

The opportunities that the new technology offers are well known. New jobs, better processes, shorter distances to the customer. The well-being of mankind is increasing. Knowledge is spread. We cannot stop all this and there is no need for intervention in this area either.

But the risks are very similar. Jobs disappear, processes become more complex. The short distances to the customer make the whole construct unmanageable and he loses the overview.

Something interesting happened yesterday in Switzerland. Public transport had a massive delay problem. At the same time, large parts of Google were unavailable. Is there a connection here under certain circumstances?