courtlistener VS scorpion

- https://github.com/freelawproject/bigcases2/

Languages: Python, Django, JavaScript, Browser extensions

Free Law Project is a small non-profit that uses technology to make the legal sector better. We operate at a big scale (about 300M items in our DB and a lot of traffic), and need help scaling, operating, expanding, fixing, modernizing, and maintaining our stack.

One high priority project is adding a CDN to our site due to the crush we just got on the latest Epstein docs:

Background: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/epstein-document-crash-docu...

Issue: https://github.com/freelawproject/courtlistener/issues/917

If you have experience in rolling out a CDN, that's great.

If not, we also have a volunteer backlog where we are always looking for help with our website, browser extensions, etc: https://github.com/orgs/freelawproject/projects/31/views/1

At this point, if you are a Python/Django/Browser extension dev, we could probably use your help!

Get in touch: info at free dot law

If anybody has made it this far, all of the code for this is open source, and we'd certainly welcome your thoughts and ideas. I'm guessing lots of other people have crossed this bridge (DRF and HTMX are both quite popular), but I didn't see any other good guides, so hopefully this can be a beginning.

One source is GitHub: https://github.com/zzo38/scorpion

It is also available by Fossil: http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/scorpion.ui/dir?ci=tip

It is also available by the Scorpion protocol itself at: scorpion://zzo38computer.org/specification.txt (Since you cannot read it without reading it to understand it first, here is a simple explanation: Use port 1517. Send R and then a space and then the full URL and then carriage return and line feed. Discard the first line of the result.)

A GitHub repository is at: https://github.com/zzo38/scorpion

The newest version of the specification document is also accessible by the Scorpion protocol itself (currently TLS is not implemented on the server side): scorpion://zzo38computer.org/specification.txt

(Some of the other things other people have done are: Gemini, Spartan, and some others. Some of them (e.g. HYDIN, TerseNet) are not defined enough at this time, so it would be difficult to use them.) There are also other existing protocols, e.g. NNTP and IRC for communication between users, and Gopher for files and menus with hypertext.)

Of course, different people have different ideas, and different goals and criticisms (I have some of my own criticisms too, but many other people have other criticisms of Gemini and these other protocols/file-formats, some of which may be found on Hacker News). You are free to make criticisms of Scorpion (including if any part of the document is unclear, or if you think some part is good or is not good), too.

Actually, the repository there also does include a few other things; the "astroget" program (similar than curl) implements Scorpion protocol and also implements Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, NNTP, and HTTP (deliberately not implementing cookies and many other features of HTTP; if you need those features then you can use curl instead, anyways).

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS https://github.com/zzo38/scorpion Scorpion Protocol/File-Format -- can be implemented in any programming languages, but mostly C programming language

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS https://github.com/zzo38/freeheromesh Free Hero Mesh puzzle game engine (e.g. Hero Hearts, Sokoban, etc) -- written in C programming language, some parts are SQL