This page documents how Island in the Net is built and maintained. It was a tradition in the print era — a note at the back of the book describing the tools behind it. It feels right to carry that forward here.

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Writing and Production

Posts are written in Markdown using WordPress Classic Editor. The primary writing machine is a Mac Studio.

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Theme and Design

The site runs on Cornerstone, an open-source WordPress theme I built myself. System fonts throughout.

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Server and Hosting

Island in the Net runs on a DigitalOcean VPS — Ubuntu Linux, Apache, MySQL. Self-managed.

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Essential Plugins

Security — ModSecurity, fail2ban, Akismet, CookieYes

IndieWeb — ActivityPub, Post Kinds, Syndication Links, Webmention, IndieNews, WebFinger, Nodeinfo

Utilities — GDPR Data Request Form

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