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This article was originally posted to Medium.

5 reasons refactoring your project can give you back your competitive edge

It didn’t used to be so expensive to change one little thing…

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.