Last week, we quashed a bug that was overly aggressively logging users out, so you should now be able to use the site with fewer interruptions.

Last week, we made it easier to register for our newsletter and pushed a small fix on a landing page.

MuckRock’s new feature updates include an easier way to get an API key, improvements on request purchasing, eliminating emojis in mailed requests, fixed email submission warning, and a new process that has all checks over $150 now being sent via certified mail.

Last week, we fixed a bug that accidentally hid some organization’s requests from their request page. We also continued hacking away at a new project that helps scan the websites of agencies in our database to look for how well they follow best practices from accessibility and speed to securing visitor privacy.

This week, we cleaned up the source code for our user authentication service, including adding additional software tests and making it easier to run locally for others who want to use it.

To celebrate Patriots’ Day (and also, because a week has eclipsed), a round up of recent bug fixes and tweaks on MuckRock, plus how you can get involved in our civic hacking projects.

Last weekend, we joined our friends at Code for Boston to hack on a new project analyzing agency websites. We also pushed a number of features and fixes for our newly launched Accounts service.

In 1973, still coming down from the harshed mellow of Watergate, a Central Intelligence Agency officer came up with what they felt would be the perfect solution to lagging morale and lackluster operation security: a motivational poster contest. The results, apparently produced in-house, were exceedingly a product of a their time and environment - and are now available for you desktop wallpaper needs.

Documents requested by Heather Akers-Healy from the National Security Agency show it had a contract with the French security researcher VUPEN, whose founder and CEO Chaouki Bekrar puckishly touts himself as the ‘Darth Vader of Cybersecurity.”