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Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball by pfgallagher on Friday February 23, 2024 @09:45PM (#39488671)
Did you put this together? It looks great. The site our village uses to host its village code is an atrocity so I’ve been considering rolling my own unofficial version.
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Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball by briandrum on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:00PM (#39488753)
I did, thank you!

Our official code is hosted by American Legal Publishing [1], but it's so bad that I decided to download a copy and try hosting my own.

After I was elected to our village council I started to notice the similarities between legal code and computer code – large amounts of plain text, formatting, and change management.

I ended up using Markdown with some special CSS styling, and the site is generated by Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. BBEdit and regex was a huge help to whip it into shape.

You are welcome to use anything I've done [2]. I would love to see more people doing the same.

[1] https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chagrinfalls/latest/ov...

[2] https://github.com/briandrum/codes.forchagrin.com

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Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball by IIAOPSW on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:11PM (#39489046)
Lots have heard "code is law".

Fewer have noticed "law is code".

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Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball by pfgallagher on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:29PM (#39489124)
Haha, yep. Ours is American Legal Publishing, too.
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Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball by valleyer on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:14PM (#39489057)
The GitHub repo is 404ing. Maybe it's set to be private?
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Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball by briandrum on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:16PM (#39489069)
Fixed, thank you.
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