Refactor.red field notes

After decades of electronics work, resistor colour codes still trip me up. So I built a better tool to decode them.

Radio is critical infrastructure that relies on volunteers and communities. Recent events on the Gold Coast prove radio's value when centralised communications fail.

A practical how-to for running Meshtastic on 433 MHz with a TTGO LoRa board, using your amateur radio callsign and ham mode settings.

I built a small open-source tool called Screenshot CLI. It does exactly what the name suggests - takes screenshots from the command line. It's written in TypeScript and uses Playwright under the hood.

Meshtastic is an open-source project that lets you build a long-range mesh communication network using affordable LoRa radios - no towers, phone lines, or internet required. Once you have the devices, you own the network.

Australia is one of the best environments in the world for meaningful IoT - not the kind that controls your coffee machine, but the kind that helps prevent a flood, catch a feral animal, or secure a remote gate before someone gets hurt.

Cat 1bis is a simplified LTE standard that only needs one antenna, making it cheaper to build compact IoT devices. It hits a sweet spot between slow NB-IoT and expensive Cat 4 modems, and is now rolling out across Australia and New Zealand.

The Refactor team attended UnrealFest24, Epic Games' two-day Unreal Engine conference in Brisbane. While game development is not our core focus, many of the techniques and challenges explored there translate directly to industrial and simulation work.

A client needed to move off end-of-life Atlassian Confluence Server without paying Atlassian's cloud pricing. We took on migrating all their content into WikiJS, focusing on navigation, search, and a more pleasant reading experience.