PyTux

Trips of a curious penguin.

Hello, time traveler! You are reading an article that is almost ten years old. The world has changed, and so have I and my opinions. There is a good chance what's below is not current, correct, or secure anymore, and maybe it never was. This page is preserved because I am an archivist at heart, but you have been warned.

Claimed a RECAP Aaron Swartz grant

I’ve recently teamed up with a friend of mine, Alessio Palmero, to extend the reach of the RECAP extension to the Appellate Courts documents and win a grant offered by PlainSite in memory of Aaron Swartz.

The Firefox (and now Chrome) extension intercepts public domain documents downloaded from the pay-walled legal archive PACER and uploads them to the Internet Archive. Freely available documents are then marked as such for the sake of a juster access to public records.

Details and comments in the linked blog post.