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© Lewis Westbury 2026

This article was originally posted to Medium.

Why are some projects so expensive? Need they be?

This article is adapted from a response I gave to the Reddit post for the Medium article How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code in r/coding by Tait Brown

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog.

Drive Stamper

Drive Stamper is one of the first projects I released into the wild, and helped me to kick off my old blog in 2011.

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog.

Educational games

It’s time to take a look at a project from almost a decade ago! Source code, screenshots, documentation and (old!) binaries are now available in the instantiator/openbook-v2 GitHub repository.

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired

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This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired

See also:

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired

See also:

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired

See also:

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired

See also:

This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog.

The hack

The Parliamentary Hack, recently featured in the Independent, was an interesting event. Almost every age group was represented and the event was a hive of activity from the word go.