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Nah, you can still do that.

Nowadays you can get cheap internet access, and you can buy a used okay-level laptop, get a free domain (like .tk, just a bit better from Google, the .dev), get a free VPS from AWS, and you can run whatever you want on it.

PHP has a built in web server, you can start developing with Laravel/Symfony easier than ever.

You find DigitalOcean tutorials for basic things easily, and you don't have to try to make stuff work on shady adware shared hosting portals.

The old webmaster days. Uh those were horrible. People tried to do blue-green deployments with Capistrano and PHP cache invalidation with atomic rename. And then folks spent years hacking RoR stuff to make it scale.

Yeah, Django is nice, but Python is a mess. Now with mypy finally there's some light at the end of the tunnel.