The first is I don't do web development, I mean I know the basics, but I generally stay as far as I possible can from front end development. This posed a major problem for me to going ahead and building something, but surprisingly I made a lot of progress starting from zero in a very short period of time. I am very happy with how it came out.
Rate at which back-end devs pick up front end skills from scratch is something that will never cease to amaze me
It is only surpassed by their reluctancy to do it
I'm not even sure I'd call myself a backend dev. I just sort of build anything I need. Usually some sort of automation so I can avoid having to do something myself. I'm of the mindset there is no point of doing things I can have a computer do.