Public thank-you for the stack beneath this site. Formal inventory lives in docs/TECHNOLOGY-ATTRIBUTION.md and docs/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md. Sponsors (financial) stay separate below.
Foundational Technology
Node.js
- Purpose
- Server runtime for Milliway / portal backends
- Maintainer
- OpenJS Foundation
- License
- MIT
Thank you for making this available.
HTML / CSS / JS
- Purpose
- Client markup, styling, and interaction
- Maintainer
- WHATWG / W3C / browser vendors
- License
- Web platform standards
Thank you for making this available.
Web APIs
- Purpose
- Browser primitives (fetch, storage, media)
- Maintainer
- Standards bodies + implementers
- License
- Platform APIs
Thank you for making this available.
WebRTC
- Purpose
- Realtime audio/video and peer connectivity
- Maintainer
- W3C / IETF
- License
- Standards
Thank you for making this available.
Open-Source Projects
Express
- Purpose
- HTTP application framework
- Maintainer
- OpenJS / Express maintainers
- License
- MIT
Thank you for making this available.
Socket.IO
- Purpose
- Realtime messaging for chat
- Maintainer
- Automattic / community
- License
- MIT
Thank you for making this available.
three.js
- Purpose
- 3D courtyard renderer for Nest World
- Maintainer
- three.js authors / mrdoob + contributors
- License
- MIT
Thank you for making this available.
jsonwebtoken
- Purpose
- Short-lived Nest World pass tokens (/nest → /world)
- Maintainer
- auth0 / jsonwebtoken maintainers
- License
- MIT
Thank you for making this available.
Nodemailer
- Purpose
- Outbound SMTP mail layer
- Maintainer
- Andris Reinman
- License
- MIT-family
Thank you for making this available.
dotenv
- Purpose
- Environment configuration
- Maintainer
- dotenv project
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
Thank you for making this available.
PM2
- Purpose
- Process management / keep-alive
- Maintainer
- Unitech / Keymetrics
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Thank you for making this available.
Infrastructure & Services
Stripe
- Purpose
- Payments · Buy flag Payment Link
- Maintainer
- Stripe, Inc.
- License
- Commercial ToS
Thank you for making this available.
Mempool.space
- Purpose
- Public Bitcoin address / chain explorer data
- Maintainer
- Mempool Open Source Project
- License
- Service / open-source explorer
Thank you for making this available.
xAI (Cranky / Neagle)
- Purpose
- AI assistants for conversational help
- Maintainer
- xAI
- License
- Commercial API / ToS
Thank you for making this available.
GitHub
- Purpose
- Source hosting, review, release workflow
- Maintainer
- GitHub (Microsoft)
- License
- Service ToS
Thank you for making this available.
Namecheap / Apache
- Purpose
- DNS + web hosting stack
- Maintainer
- Namecheap · Apache HTTP Server
- License
- Service / Apache-2.0
Thank you for making this available.
Google STUN Review
- Purpose
- WebRTC NAT traversal assist
- Maintainer
- Google
- License
- Terms review — open item
Thank you for making this available.
SMTP (via Nodemailer)
- Purpose
- Mail transport behind Nodemailer
- Maintainer
- Provider-dependent
- License
- Provider ToS
Thank you for making this available.
Standards & Communities
OpenJS Foundation
- Purpose
- Stewardship of Node.js / Express ecosystem
- Maintainer
- OpenJS
- License
- n/a (community)
Thank you for making this available.
WHATWG / W3C / IETF
- Purpose
- Web & realtime standards we build upon
- Maintainer
- Standards communities
- License
- Standards documents
Thank you for making this available.
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