Hackers On Planet Earth

Calliope Youngblood

Legal research is infamous for guarded access (law firms only) and high prices (monthly and per-search). This year at HOPE, see the launch of an open-source legal search engine, and a public forum for legal research. Learn how to model legal sources using vector and graph databases, how to acquire records using scrapers, and how to connect directly to the people at Congress producing and publishing these records each day. Calliope live-codes each day on YouTube to prepare for HOPE, on https://www.youtube.com/@c4lliope/streams. Their code is published on https://operand.online.

Friday 1300 Crystal Ballroom

Calliope Youngblood has most recently been a coder for the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since being fired for “too many prototypes” in 2023, they are exploring new languages as a deployment engineer, using NixOS, NuShell, Elixir, and Rust. You can find them exploring hacker spaces and open-mic scenes as a cyber nomad.