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Stand by for a bit of a rant prompted by @philandstuff’s encouraging tweet about serverlessness
My heretical view is that a “serverless” platform is one that can operate successfully without needing to rely on any server whatsoever
Some of the value is from needing *no* server, but the more interesting stuff comes from the independence to talk to *any* server
And some value stems from TiddlyWiki also being a literal single page application: a standalone HTML file with no inherent dependencies
So, the first value of literal serverlessness is to give users airgap-level privacy: privacy that anyone can verify for themselves
The second value of literal serverlessness is to permit trivial archiving for as long as there are web browsers
The third value of literal serverlessness is the flattening of the costs of supporting multiple UI variants from a sole server
Anyone can fork a TiddlyWiki-based UI: just copy the file and start modifying it. Stateless functions in the cloud don’t care who calls them
The value to users of literal serverlessness is shifting control from server to client, enabling scalable, independent innovation at edge
That last one is the humdinger, and it’s worth a little sub-rant to explain why it matters so much to me…
I think the highest calling for software developers is to gift their own capabilities to ordinary users (at a higher level of abstraction)
Making software is too vital an ability to be confined to software developers; it's the most important new power for changing our world
Never mind teaching people to fish, we should make it easy to learn to build fishing rods
I don't just love TiddlyWiki and HyperCard, I love Excel, Mathematica, – all the generative apps that let users build their own things
Generative apps are the only way the industry can serve niches like teaching HS volleyball - pespot.tiddlyspot.com 
Meanwhile I work in an industry in which adding stickers to messaging apps is considered innovation
But even messaging apps could be generative: imagine being able to build and share a manual/story/manifesto from your message stream
Not proud of being easily riled, but some of that rant was provoked by the way that grown-up developers see TiddlyWiki as deeply infra dig
