From Handmade to AI-Made Websites: 20 Years in Website Development
From Handmade to AI-Made Websites: 20 Years in Website DevelopmentAugust 7, 2026inWebsitesxfiveA short personal reflection on 20 years spent in the website development industry.On a MissionI joined xfive (at that time, XHTMLized) in summer 2006. Back then, I was running a small business called Handmade Websites. I was tired of chasing my own clients, so I welcomed an opportunity to focus on development.It was the time of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman, and fighting with Internet Explorer.
- ▪From Handmade to AI-Made Websites: 20 Years in Website DevelopmentAugust 7, 2026inWebsitesxfiveA short personal reflection on 20 years spent in the website development industry.On a MissionI joined xfive (at that time, XHTMLized) in summer
- ▪Back then, I was running a small business called Handmade Websites.
- ▪I was tired of chasing my own clients, so I welcomed an opportunity to focus on development.It was the time of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman, and fighting with Internet Explorer.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,996 of its stories.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | Xfive |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xfive.co/blog/20-years-website-development |
| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:40:53 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-07T14:45:42.003Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-07T14:45:42.003Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | SKf_-t9n8pwU · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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From Handmade to AI-Made Websites: 20 Years in Website DevelopmentAugust 7, 2026inWebsitesxfiveA short personal reflection on 20 years spent in the website development industry.On a MissionI joined xfive (at that time, XHTMLized) in summer 2006. Back then, I was running a small business called Handmade Websites. I was tired of chasing my own clients, so I welcomed an opportunity to focus on development.It was the time of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman, and fighting with Internet Explorer. It wasn't only about making money. We felt like we were on a mission. A mission to make the web better for users and developers.Digging Our Own Grave?Ironically, in retrospect it seems like we were digging our own grave for the last two decades. Deploying thousands of projects, millions of lines of code.
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