by andrewdobbins | Aug 14, 2026 | Systems & Operations, Technology & AI
People who saw my earlier post will already know that radio has been an interest of mine for years. Through ORAC (my personal engineering laboratory), I have been rebuilding the interface I use with my Icom IC-R8600 communications receiver around the way I actually...
by andrewdobbins | Jul 30, 2026 | Systems & Operations, Technology & AI
Why good organisations end up making people do work their systems should already be doing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I was working on ORAC, my engineering laboratory, trying to remove a source of irritation that had gradually crept into the engineering process. Nothing...
by andrewdobbins | Jul 21, 2026 | Systems & Operations
Complexity often comes not from what is new, but from what was never fully retired. Before making another change, it is worth establishing what is actually live. I recently spent far too long investigating what should have been a straightforward technical change. The...
