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by briandrum 843 days ago
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
3 comments
IIAOPSW 843 days ago
Lots have heard "code is law".

Fewer have noticed "law is code".

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valleyer 843 days ago
The GitHub repo is 404ing. Maybe it's set to be private?
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briandrum 843 days ago
Fixed, thank you.
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pfgallagher 843 days ago
Haha, yep. Ours is American Legal Publishing, too.
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