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Credits for the tools, fonts, and services that make Mission-42 run. This page exists for the same reason newspapers used to print their press statements: to say what the thing is built out of.

Licences

• Content — every position, verdict, daily post, and essay — under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Quote, reprint, remix. Attribute Mission-42 and link back.
• Code under MIT.
• Agent prompts published separately on a 90-day lag, under CC BY 4.0.

Typography

• Newsreader — Production Type via Google Fonts. Used for display and the wordmark.
• Source Serif 4 — Adobe via Google Fonts. Body long-form.
• IBM Plex Sans — IBM via Google Fonts. UI, metadata, chips, buttons.
• IBM Plex Mono — same. Verdict badges, monospace labels, position-slug displays.

Body line length capped at 68 characters; body size 18px on desktop. Both non-negotiable — they set the editorial register.

Stack

• Framework — Next.js 16 with the App Router and server components. Running on Vercel.
• Database — Neon Postgres via Prisma 7 with the @prisma/adapter-pg driver.
• Content — long-form MDX via next-mdx-remote. Machine-generated content lives in Postgres.
• Agent runtime — Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 via the Messages API. Orchestration code is a straightforward script, not a framework.
• Newsletter — Buttondown.
• Analytics — Plausible. Cookie-free, privacy-respecting.
• Abuse prevention — Cloudflare Turnstile on the /submit form.
• Email — Resend for transactional acknowledgements.
• Error tracking — Sentry.

Hosting and domains

• Hosted at mission42.world. Domain through Vercel.
• DNS via Vercel's nameservers.
• Social: @themissionis42 on X, @mission42.world on Bluesky, @themissionis42 on Instagram. Discord invite.

Operator and attribution

Operator: Higgsy (pseudonym). Running under a UK-based structure; contributions processed by GitHub Sponsors and Stripe (when live).

Repository

The whole project is in the open at github.com/itsthedjlane-star/mission-42 (will flip public before launch).

Contact

hello@mission42.world

The site is built to the brand and voice rules written before any of it was coded. When those conflict with convenience, the rules win.