I’m formally launching Indiekit, the little Node.js server with all the parts needed to publish content to your personal website and share it on social networks. Think of Indiekit as the missing link between a statically generated website and the social web protocols developed by the IndieWeb community and recommended by the W3C.

it’s looking like anything that requires a server is going in the bin

Autonomous

Here’s a real example. A while back I posted up some thoughts about a decentralized Goodreads: Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads. The idea is that a million individual static sites can publish their book lists in a way that allows us to build Goodreads-esque behavior on top of it.

Theoretically, there are many plugins for webservers adding support for scripting using any scripting language you can name. These are sometimes used to host full-blown web applications but I don't see them being used to facilitate mildly dynamic functionality.

Software has more cybernetic variety than hardware

Infrastructure has decades-long replacement cycles

The Webfinger endpoint is always under /.well-known/webfinger, and it receives queries such as /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:bob@my-example.com. Well, in our case we can cheat, and just make it a static file: