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### Turns out Zotero's compatibility is an open source project with inbuilt development tools.
Why is Zotero's compatibility an open source project with inbuilt development tools? I don't care, but I love it.
Work starts right away on a [Zotero Translator](https://github.com/zotero/translators) for my database of choice, Lexis's newest iteration called Lexis+. One or two hyperfixations later, I [drop a PR](https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/3038) and call it a day.
Work starts right away on a [Zotero Translator](https://github.com/zotero/translators) for my database of choice, Lexis's newest iteration called Lexis+. One or two hyperfixations later, I [drop a PR](https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/3012) and call it a day.
This was my first medium-term back-and-forth with an open source project contribution. Zotero's development APIs have lackluster documentation, but their maintainers have high standards. Through a team effort, I made it to merge, and could claim victory! Victory over the internet, the legal community, the Zotero project, and the walled-garden ([[Essays/why-i-garden|I hate those]]) legal research databases that dared catch my ire.
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Unfortunately, the folks at my journal have been resistant to change thus far, and the only time I've saved has been my own.
#### Worth it.
#### P.S.
I had a small hiccup that I discovered through subsequent use for another journal article.
https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/3038
There, fixed it. All better.