You've gone all musc...
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all foggy.
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You've got your vaseline...
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your vaseline lens on.
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All good, there goes my camera.
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yeah you find cameras being weird
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Quick screenshot of what Justin's got on his...
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no...
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pinball.
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just printed out a new thing for the wall.
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I've had this forever.
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I made like a spreadsheet of all the very CNC router specific the up cut lengths of my
compression tools sorted by length.
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yeah, tasty.
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Ta-da!
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Got it.
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It's just an imperial, so good luck with that.
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and how to convert that.
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I'm...
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I'm...
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Yeah.
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in years.
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I'm out in the main office today.
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I don't know, just purely because I couldn't be bothered moving my microphone stand.
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I was running a few minutes late and I'll...
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Ah, that's the room.
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The room's different.
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Yeah, of course it is.
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Now I just went to reach for my standing desk control to lift it up a little bit.
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I have this like, every time I lift my desk up, want...
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Josh Groban's You Raise Me Up to play just in the room.
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Put a little marker there.
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Uhhhh, how's it going man?
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I just tried to play a laughing clip and it didn't let me play.
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wait.
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make it stop.
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It's awful.
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good.
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How's it going?
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Good.
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Got a lot of stuff delivered the last couple of days of parts and products we've been
waiting on for a long time.
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Well, a long time coming, let's say.
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Like the dust boot parts that I was mentioning were prototypes last week.
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We have a limp Microsoft stand again.
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And...
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Had some show up and they were missing holes.
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was the first time ever I've had a online sheet metal quick send solution.
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And it was just like missing holes in the parts.
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And I was like, I don't, I can't use like, I almost tried to modify them to get parts sent
out, but I just told them, and this is rmfg.com and they've been really great.
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and they remade them and sent them out the next day and we had them the next day.
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So I was like, wow, I'm not gonna try and modify, you know, five mil holes that have to be
very, pretty precise in stainless steel.
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don't know.
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It's not my forte really.
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Yeah.
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And thin sheet stainless steel.
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Yeah, I've done plenty of drilling of stainless, it's not fun.
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Not a fun product.
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I asked Dylan, I was like, hey, I know you do stainless steel.
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is this stupid?
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I even try this?
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And he's like, yeah, just make a quick fixture.
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And I was like, see, that's easy for you.
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Like a fixture is a day for me.
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Like, I'm not quick at those.
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Those kind of like, just pop it in the mill real quick.
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Are you, like, building and running these test units on your shop saber?
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, it's, we've tested it probably not as extensively as we should, but I am pretty
confident in it.
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And as we always discuss, it's like somebody is going to run it way harder than we expect
and something will happen.
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But we're kind of at this place with, we call it the bottom plate, the snap-on plate,
right?
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That it's.
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It's never been what we wanted it to be.
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And the brushes come out so easily, no matter what we try to do to them, glue, you know,
all the fastening items that it's just finally like, you know, I think this is a better
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solution.
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Even if it's not perfect, we haven't tested it extensively.
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It's so much better than where we were at that like, I think it just gotta be shipped, you
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Mmm.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, in the baby pants fence last week, I wanted to say, I don't think
we've had a brush come out or flex inwards.
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And I'm pretty happy with our airflow.
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Yeah, sure.
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Like it's more bushy on the inside than when it was new, of course.
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Like it's, and I'm sure some fibers have been, yeah.
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completely derail me.
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I appreciate the comment regardless.
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You're, I would say that the nice people don't say anything.
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Well, let's just say people that are friends of us, you know, more personal and don't just
know us as an ad that they saw and tried out.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I don't know how to say it just to be transparent.
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It's not been what we, it's never been ideal.
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And part of it's the brush composition.
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And part of it was we never could find the right combination of ways to keep this
flexible, like five by five millimeter backer of a strip of brush attached to HDPE sheet
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that we machined.
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And so now we've had this like drastically better solution.
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and it's, yeah, well, I went through this before it's repairable.
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It's
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Yeah, that's great.
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video to publish about it.
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And I'm in the same attire as I was the other day, which, which definitely had some, some
nice commentary from you and the other peanut gallery about my, my Gen Z look apparently.
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camera.
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What's wrong with you?
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it's back.
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Hmm.
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It's one of those days.
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Yes, I was greatly entertained by, orange, et al.
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look bad or is it surprising that I have a slightly different look?
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Surprised me.
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That's
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How about things in the other hemisphere?
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South.
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yeah, don't know, slow week, yet another slow week.
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Laura and I were chatting, yeah, so was Laura and I were chatting finance on the couch
last night as we do sometimes and we're like I think this is kind of the time of year, it
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is, it's exactly this time of year when like we made the big shift where we kind of
freaked out and
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downsize started that process 12 months ago and Laura went into spreadsheet mode and
pulled up five years worth of data in zero out of zero into Excel and built some graphs
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and she was like, yeah, this is like the end of end of Jan into fab right into the end of
fab is like a classic dip every year.
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You can see the pattern clearly.
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and then it rises up.
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into March so fingers crossed this is just the standard dip but yeah definitely feeling it
just cash flow is super tight it's just hard to get people over the line right now like
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I've caught up on quotes pretty much for the first time in ever which is good feeling but
as I said the other day it's also a bit like scary so my leads
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But at the end of the day, I don't want too many leads.
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I want to just sell more straight products.
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So I think that's partly why I've been burning the midnight oil this week on the
configurator, because I just want to get that better and better and to the next point, get
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more people using it.
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Mm, mm, mm.
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Yeah, I'm just trying to like get, mean, it looks like it's so close.
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Like, I suppose what the big hang up is it's not converting into the shopping cart yet.
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Probably.
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to even look at that.
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Like, you know, it's hosted in Shopify now, so I should absolutely be able to do that.
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I don't know if it's even on my dev list in Workflow.
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Let me go and put that on top of my hit list now.
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bet that you could knock that out in an evening.
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God damn it.
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is wrong with that?
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I'm so pissed about this camera situation.
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Why are you having problems?
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I think I'm, I'm close to just buying a nice webcam.
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I'm tired of this stupid thing,
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Let's see, what did you just say?
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Oh look, no they're just the configurator add to cart code.
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Like I agree, I think it probably will take me an evening.
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I've just been holding off.
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I haven't run that prompt yet.
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It isn't probably like the top priority I get like that it functions and people can try it
out and send you results is great.
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think, I mean, I can think of how I could do it slowly myself probably like with very poor
results.
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And then I would try some kind of like coding tool to actually get it done.
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The API is pretty built for that.
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So you should have some good results from it pretty quick, I think.
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Really happy with the automatic dowel placement that I added this week.
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Super-tough to that.
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It's just made it so much faster to use.
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Like it's now the fastest tool, much quicker than like my Rhino block template for
building.
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So you can just use that instead and send people.
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Yeah, I added like configurations last night so you can save and import designs using like
a JSON output.
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And yeah, it's great.
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I'm really happy with it.
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Where do I find it again?
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under kitaparts.
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Do you hide it somewhere?
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or the website actually, the guinea pig link on the front page.
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yeah, you added that.
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yeah.
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I think it integrates better with your website too.
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I mean, doesn't, it's like so fast to load.
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Yeah.
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Straight HTML, baby.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I was thinking about a dark mode button.
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I mean, I love AirShop's dark mode switch.
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Proud.
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Sitting proudly in the top right hand corner.
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Very nice.
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I guess if I, while we're updating our code inside projects, I sent you a nice little demo
and then it got merged right away, but I got a nice dashboard built into the quotes now.
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So we had like a homepage dashboard, which is like your big zoom out.
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Here's all the things happening.
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Hold up, hold up.
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What were you imagining?
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code.
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like we make, it's like a whole, like, I think I said this to you.
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No, I didn't.
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So it's perfect.
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I think it's like this whole code development thing is really great I think we need to,
and I've heard like, I think Justin Gray say this too, like bring some of the software
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development stuff into the CNC world more clearly.
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It's like, there's so many nice little features.
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Like I wish we had, I'm trying to think.
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maybe in G code related things, but like you start working on a new feature for the
software project and it's like, you make a branch.
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And so it never affects the thing that people are using currently.
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And then, which you call like main or production or dev, whatever, which version of that
there's different levels of it.
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So you can keep kind of editing on your side and then merge it back into the main.
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and you have somebody review it in the process and they've got it all figured out in terms
of it's annoying and it feels slow at times.
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like the reason that I think it was, I think it was American Airlines, maybe Delta, I
can't remember the airline, but last year they had a giant crash of all their systems
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because the person working on the code for it publishing code to main like on a production
and not going through a testing phase, which is.
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Insane.
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Like in our little side tool that nobody uses, we never do that.
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I don't understand how a multi-billion dollar company doesn't have controls on that.
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That's just crazy.
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I built out a nice little dashboard that can, show you what's going on for just your
quotes and kind of updated some styling and,
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before it was kind of like a grid of just quotes.
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And that's not really our plan, whatever it was for it, it just took some time to like
build out some graphs and I have more to put into it, but it's just nice to make and add
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new features like that pretty quickly.
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was there, I wanted to ask you about this cause I was falling asleep last night after yet
another late night of coding and about how you professionals do like what you just
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described with like merging and forking and stuff of like how you do file management.
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Cause at the moment I'm just like every time I sit down to work on it, I save a copy of
the file.
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Yeah, right.
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the end of the session, if I'm happy with the progress and I'm like, yes, I've improved
upon it.
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I'm happy with how it's working.
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I'll save that again as like a milestone file with like, with a, just like a one word
description.
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And then next time I sit down, I'd save off a copy of that milestone and proceed.
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So I've always got things to come back to.
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that okay?
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Appropriate.
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Basic.
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seems, seems pretty, pretty safe and great.
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mean, it's taken me the entire time I've worked on Air Shop like partially 60 % understand
GitHub and Git in general.
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I've, I kind of hated it at first, but it turns out to be pretty.
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I actually really kind of like it now and it's, nice to have this like other thing where
you can go literally on GitHub and go back and see, like, I was just, I, when I was
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building this quote dashboard, I built a draft of it in a branch two months ago, I think.
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And I could go back because so much else changed in that time period.
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I'm not capable of like.
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bringing that version back to the current version and like all the merging that needs to
happen.
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So I was like, well, I can reference a lot of those files and kind of go see a saved state
of where I was working in commits.
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So it's like where I go from my local and it pushes it up as like a saved version, I
guess, in that branch.
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So, I mean, I don't know if I can recommend GitHub, but like it's probably...
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to like learn all of it, but like, think you're doing kind of that already.
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Like as long as you're dating and saving, it is nice to like put comments in and stuff
about how, how you change stuff.
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Yeah, I think like something I've struggled with is just drift.
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Like I realized last night at some point my like disclaimer pop-up has disappeared from
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And I'm like, I don't know which version that vanished.
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And it'd be kind of nice to have it back.
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So it's like, do I just...
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go back and open all the files and try and find that feature and then try and reintegrate
it.
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I can't be bothered right now.
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Whatever.
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That happens to both Brady and I, it'll go like, man, you used to have this nice tool tip
on this button or something.
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And he's like, yeah, I was fixing something.
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I forgot to add it back in.
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just kind of from, you can only imagine what a big software project has, just so many
missing things there.
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So,
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yeah, man, it's looking really good.
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I'm very happy with it.
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Click here to email your designs.
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What did I get?
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it just dumps that.
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Huh.
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I had a Shopify issue of my own, which kind of brought on by my own doing, I suppose, I
think.
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last week, so we've had dust boots kind of like out of stock and in a backorder state
because we've been changing.
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We ran out of the custom brush.
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So that necessitated like this.
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I saw it coming.
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didn't fully get it done in time, which is stupid because it's a driving force of a lot of
our sales.
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got the new version tested and rolling.
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And so as we ran out of that stock of those brushes, we started to backorder and I've got
a plugin that kind of manages that automatically.
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And tells people how long until they'll get their item when stuff goes out of stock.
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And, you know, I also have the bundling app plugin, simple bundles.
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And there's one other one that was in play.
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But basically I had some customers say, hey, I've been trying to order your dust boot and
it keeps saying it's out of stock.
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People will email us that sometimes when it's stuffs on backorder, because it says
backorder, you can preorder now.
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It'll be, it'll ship by this date.
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And I was like, have it set so you can, you can preorder something or backorder it.
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And he's like, I don't know.
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I tried that.
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I'm getting this weird warning.
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I had never seen this warning before on the dust boot page.
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It took me the entire day Friday to manage to.
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allow people to add dust boots to the card again.
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And I don't know how many days it had been like that, but like, let's just say thousands
of dollars of sales probably missed that week, at least that week.
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I don't really know.
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and it kind of resulted in, right.
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It resulted in basically me turning on and off some of those plugins.
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I took one out of play completely.
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think.
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And I was looking at like, was happening on the code on the front end.
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was like a weird error happening and it works.
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We've had people order them since, but I was like, kind of in a panic panic of like, I
don't know if I can fix this and I'm relying on these things to do these, certain tasks.
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And I was chatting with a friend about it.
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was like, how do I prevent not knowing this in the future?
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Do I have to like create like a bot that like goes to the website and
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randomly picks products to like add to cart.
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And if it can't do it, tells me about it.
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Like, I don't, how do you do that?
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Do it yourself, I guess.
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it's a bit spooky, do we like a weekly review of core functionality or something?
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I mean, yeah, hopefully just customers tell you, right?
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But I had a customer call me yesterday, just like picked up the phone and called me.
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He's like, hey, Jib, you remember me from like 14 years ago when I bought really early set
of shelves.
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like, hi, David, like searching his name in the inbox.
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He's like, oh, I was looking.
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so often now.
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Like that, yeah.
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and I want the draw, like I want some draws, do you still do those?
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People are confused about the draws because they've seen them on socials but there's
nothing, no mention of them on the website at all.
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And I was like, yeah, yeah, actually if you go into this new configuration tool, you can
add them yourself.
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And he's like, he's on the phone and I can hear him clicking through, he goes, okay, so I
go to the configurator and then he's like, it's just giving me like a blah, blah, blah
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error.
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I was like, oh, is that on the main configuration?
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And he's like, yeah.
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Oh, okay, just ignore all of that.
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Go down and click on my link there.
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Bypass that one.
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I'm like, shit.
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And I can't reproduce that error.
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So it's working for me, but you know, he's a punter out in the wild trying to buy our
stuff and he's just getting like some sort of error when he tries to load the main
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configuration.
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Yeah, stuff like that, spooky.
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Don't know.
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what you can do other than rely on people to let you know.
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So it's funny, an ad just worked on me as you were describing that.
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And I was thinking like, okay, you know, my original bot idea, there's that, but that's
like, hopeful that I can come up with a solution.
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And I don't know that I would do this, but we'll find out if it makes sense.
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I listened to this podcast from these two web developer guys.
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it's like, kind of like fascination of like, I barely understand what's going on.
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It's kind of like how I learn stuff often where.
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I was watching John Saunders videos back when he had like a Tormach and was playing with
like, I'm just going to say junk cam software.
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I don't really understand what I'm listening to, but I just, I'm like, Oh, that's
interesting.
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I didn't know that existed.
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And they are sponsored by a app called Sentry.
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And it's basically just helps you find bugs and errors in your code on your websites.
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So it's some kind of subscription service.
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Let's see how expensive it is.
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Free.
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Ooh.
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$26 a month for teams.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, one thought.
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Probably won't find the thing I want,
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mean, given the pace of progress, we're probably about like six weeks off.
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One of our AI agents being able to do this on its own in the background as a background
task, just like trolling your website, looking for stuff.
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Right.
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I made an oopsie just to update on the the Profit First finance story of last week having
reconfigured everything for 2025 with my human agent Laura slash wife.
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Human error.
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We messed with it a bit too much, I think.
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And so, as I was doing distribution on Monday, I was like, there's no profit in this
distribution.
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What's going on?
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And then I looked at the numbers and it was, you know, it was a low distribution.
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just pull up my spread here, which isn't loading.
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You know, I can't remember.
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It was like...
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half of target.
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I was like, oh, there's no profit in the breakdown.
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I was messaging Laura about it.
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was like, oh yeah, because we've now got some fixed costs in here.
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The calculation is prioritizing things like payroll and insurance and sort of fixed costs
within the distribution.
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And it's spitting those out, you know, as full numbers.
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And then, then then it's distributing whatever's left.
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and just the way the percentages were broken down, was like there was 0.5 % profit or
something that week, I was like, oh no, no, this is like, this goes against the whole
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point of the system, like the system is a hack to trick yourself into ensuring there's
profit in every distribution, we need to bring the hack back.
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And so Laura's re-jigged it again this week to that it is
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truly profit first, you know, that's what gets pulled first out of the distribution.
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And then it can still apply those fixed allocations within that.
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So fine tuning, fine tuning.
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But it was a bit of a shock of like, Oh, oops.
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And then I was teasing Laura.
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was like, cause you haven't read the book, man.
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Can't read the book.
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then you'll know.
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We pay bills after we pay ourselves.
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Which just sounds, this is like, I told you, my friend first told me about it.
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It's like, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
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yeah.
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It's usually Laura teasing me that I don't read the instructions.
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So it's nice to have an opportunity for a change.
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Accusing Laura of not knowing what we're doing.
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But yeah.
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Yeah.
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up.
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So the one thing that happened this week that was a bit in the last week, that was a bit
of a, well, it's just unplanned.
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Never planned for this kind of thing.
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And it's the first time I've really had this scenario, the Rookie's pumping out a bunch of
parts on the mill, switching parts out, jobs out to do one from like pedestal parts to
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these F4 flanges we make.
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And he was going to make stands for ATC pedestals.
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the probe stand and I, I don't know.
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I'm probably, it's some kind of weird thing I have, but I can hear weirdness in machines
so easily.
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And I come into the mill room and I'm like, what's that hiss?
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And he's like, I don't know you're talking about.
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And I'm like, yeah, there's a, there's a new hiss.
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And it's just like, you could call me annoying about it, but it's usually like useful.
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Like that's a good, to me it's a good thing.
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Hear it.
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And I can't not hear it.
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had to take a panel off the side of the mill.
382
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the actuator that opens and closes the door to the ATC.
383
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It's a big wheel and the door slides open with a piston, filled with chips.
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And we go back to that saga of how poorly designed every mill and internal
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area is it's either the door can't open because there's chips in it or like there's chips
stuck in the cable track so that's broken there had been so many chips stuck in this thing
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that it had eventually packed into a place where it poked an airline and we didn't i mean
we should have probably i guess pulled it out it didn't even look like something you would
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ever check is it just like this piece of sheet metal covering kind of the the airlines and
the
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some wiring, I guess, probably for like sensors.
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Yeah, I poked it out and it was just, just dump an air out.
390
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that means for replacing all those airlines and the whole mill, I asked some Instamachine
as friends and they'll just pull the line up the slack out and, make it work.
391
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This is a 10 year old machine.
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They're like, replace all the lines.
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And I was like,
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's the right thing, but it's like a hundred bucks of, of hose, eight mil.
396
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And we got it from McMaster the next day.
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So Ricky's doing that right now.
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Trying to anyway, we haven't done it before.
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Yeah, it's funny, think, what is it about us that makes us hear those noises?
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Because I have exactly the same experience here.
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I'll walk out into the shop and I'll be chatting to someone and then I'll just like, I'll
get distracted and stop focusing because I've heard an airline leaking and I'll just like
402
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walk over to the shop and fiddle with the fitting and it's like, it stops.
403
00:27:46,621 --> 00:27:48,162
Yeah, okay, cool.
404
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What were you saying?
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I, right.
406
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I mean, I, the fan on the enclosure on the CNC router, computer was making a weird, loud
noise.
407
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And I was like, dude, you hear that?
408
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And he's like, no, I don't know.
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He's like, he literally said to me that time.
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I don't know if this was a joke or not.
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He's like, he's like, we're pretty lucky.
412
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We have your hearing around here.
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And I was like, is that true or is that annoying?
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Anyway.
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That when the Kaiser guy was installing our, I think maybe it was a salesperson.
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I'm sure it was a sales pitch to some degree, but.
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And we're back.
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The sales guy, I'm just gonna do this now.
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Oh, 15 bucks.
420
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I just like integrate that into my, into a 3D printed module.
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I bet that'll work live all the time.
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It's 480 pixels, that's enough res for your...
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Just permanent, permanent potato cam.
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Yeah, just bring it on.
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Sorry.
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like, we have these sophisticated microphones that will go through a shop.
427
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And I think that the sales structure was pretty weird.
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was like, for how much money we save you will like charge a percentage of it based on how
much air is being dumped out in leaky fittings and stuff.
429
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But basically they can walk through a facility in here and, figure out where the leaks are
with some microphone array.
430
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And I was like, that's pretty cool, like, I don't trust, know, it just felt a little bit
slimy sometimes.
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Hmm
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It cool to have the time to fiddle with, I would love the time and focus to fiddle with
raspberry pies and that sort of tech now that you can bake in AI into them and you can
433
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build cool little widgets, I'm just imagining a little bot that is just a mic in the
workshop that's just listening.
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So like...
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give you a warning.
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You know, you could give you a warning in the middle of the night of like, oh you've
popped an airline or your compressor's running when it shouldn't be or like, what's that
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noise?
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Oh, ba ba ba ba ba.
439
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Right.
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I mean, I don't know why you couldn't have some type.
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mean, like so many like libraries now for like Arduino's or Raspberry Pi's that are just
right.
442
00:30:17,971 --> 00:30:22,497
You just have like wanted Jack's precision.
443
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I don't know if you follow them, but he just put in like this crazy, I want to call it,
maybe it's one 80 camera, but it's like either a set of cameras.
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in like a security camera that's like probably one of those domes.
445
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But he showed a view of it.
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It's like right over his desk in the middle of the floor.
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And you can see like wall to wall.
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And then you can zoom in anywhere.
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Like live.
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It's like filming it all at once.
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It's crazy.
452
00:30:49,045 --> 00:30:52,005
Awesome.
453
00:30:52,005 --> 00:30:55,325
Another shop update from us is the...
454
00:30:55,325 --> 00:30:56,185
Tumbling.
455
00:30:56,505 --> 00:31:05,245
I was at the local artist's market in town here on the weekend just with kids.
456
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:07,325
Well whole fam actually.
457
00:31:07,445 --> 00:31:13,085
Wandering around getting hot and grumpy in the sun and the kids screaming because they
weren't getting ice cream.
458
00:31:15,305 --> 00:31:15,945
And...
459
00:31:15,945 --> 00:31:18,545
And we spotted...
460
00:31:18,545 --> 00:31:20,285
We spotted this dude.
461
00:31:20,390 --> 00:31:32,830
selling like timber polishes, beeswax timber polishes and I stopped and had a chat to him
and I described what I was doing with the tumbling of like these small timber parts and
462
00:31:32,830 --> 00:31:44,010
blah blah blah, how I was having issues with the wax and Chatted looked at his products
and yeah, he recommended one particular flavor of this like beeswax polish that he had and
463
00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:50,290
I bought a bottle of it and took it back and took it straight to the shop that afternoon
and
464
00:31:50,917 --> 00:31:54,817
Molto bene it's beautiful.
465
00:31:55,977 --> 00:31:59,097
Does such a good job.
466
00:32:01,561 --> 00:32:03,164
What's good about it?
467
00:32:03,321 --> 00:32:05,272
I think I just needed that consistency.
468
00:32:05,272 --> 00:32:16,168
Like I had a hunch that I needed more of a liquid consistency rather than a solid wax and
sure enough, I cleaned out the tumbler barrel, melted out all the old wax and then just
469
00:32:16,168 --> 00:32:20,530
put some parts in there from the new like flush bookends that we're making.
470
00:32:20,911 --> 00:32:25,594
Just guessed how much product to slop in there and it's kind of less than you think
because it tumbles.
471
00:32:25,594 --> 00:32:28,014
Somehow it covers all the surfaces.
472
00:32:28,335 --> 00:32:32,247
I guess there's like millions of little interactions as it's tumbling around in there.
473
00:32:32,247 --> 00:32:38,472
somehow magically coats every surface, gets into every nook and cranny and yeah, just
working really well.
474
00:32:38,472 --> 00:32:49,011
So yeah, I think I've got a solution to tumbling and the pile of like, for the more
decorative parts, like the caps on the kidda parts that stays in there for a whole day,
475
00:32:49,011 --> 00:32:53,794
tumbled around with some Scotch Brites or whatever you called them, you had a different
name for them.
476
00:32:54,495 --> 00:33:02,134
Brillo pads, Brillo Scotch Brite, just a white Scotch Brite, which is like,
477
00:33:02,134 --> 00:33:02,430
yeah.
478
00:33:02,430 --> 00:33:03,853
Non-abrasive.
479
00:33:04,538 --> 00:33:05,822
Yeah, success.
480
00:33:05,822 --> 00:33:06,743
Happy.
481
00:33:07,164 --> 00:33:08,484
Oh, Jesus.
482
00:33:08,624 --> 00:33:10,763
I just saw a bill for a healthcare bill.
483
00:33:10,763 --> 00:33:12,535
I need to stop looking at other things.
484
00:33:12,535 --> 00:33:13,751
Inbox NoSkrull.
485
00:33:13,751 --> 00:33:19,011
that's, I love, love how like, you know, what do they say about like honey, right?
486
00:33:19,011 --> 00:33:21,451
It's like best when you get it locally.
487
00:33:21,451 --> 00:33:24,631
So you can get like the, the allergy.
488
00:33:24,691 --> 00:33:32,951
So you're just getting local beeswax solution from, does it actually made locally by the
guy?
489
00:33:33,191 --> 00:33:34,171
Cool.
490
00:33:34,751 --> 00:33:35,731
Amazing.
491
00:33:36,071 --> 00:33:37,571
Right on brand, baby.
492
00:33:37,571 --> 00:33:39,032
I know, right?
493
00:33:41,275 --> 00:33:44,384
We have a lot of thoughts about, maybe we'll try to keep it short.
494
00:33:44,384 --> 00:33:49,997
I don't know how much people enjoy listening to our AI babble, but I played a bit.
495
00:33:49,997 --> 00:33:57,630
think we both have played a bit with Claude 3.7 and it definitely seems like an
improvement all the way around.
496
00:33:57,964 --> 00:34:03,157
I can't say that it's like the thinking parts are blowing my mind yet.
497
00:34:03,313 --> 00:34:16,432
I guess in a different version of that thought, not Claude, but I was on my phone watching
my child the other morning and, you know, multitasking as he is playing with some blocks.
498
00:34:16,432 --> 00:34:20,364
And I was like, I need to find those screws we're going to use for those dust boot plates.
499
00:34:20,765 --> 00:34:25,632
And, love McMaster, but they do this thing where they like strip out.
500
00:34:25,632 --> 00:34:33,772
all the product labeling so that you're kind of stuck ordering from them, which they do a
great service.
501
00:34:33,772 --> 00:34:42,632
But when you're buying production quantities of things, these screws were almost 20 cents
a piece and we need like 20 per each assembly.
502
00:34:42,632 --> 00:34:45,232
And I was like, that's a lot for screws.
503
00:34:45,932 --> 00:34:53,952
So I took a photo of the front of the box, which has no branding, just some like
production batch numbers and like
504
00:34:53,952 --> 00:34:56,692
not even really a skew.
505
00:34:56,892 --> 00:35:02,612
And I put that on my phone into GPT and I said, I need to find these screws.
506
00:35:02,612 --> 00:35:05,432
They're 424, 3 8's long.
507
00:35:05,523 --> 00:35:07,143
I can't find them anywhere else.
508
00:35:07,143 --> 00:35:09,243
I would need to order a lot of them.
509
00:35:09,843 --> 00:35:12,283
And there was a new button that said deep research.
510
00:35:12,283 --> 00:35:15,563
And I was like, oh, well that seems like exactly what I need right now.
511
00:35:15,563 --> 00:35:19,683
I need you to deeply research this for me.
512
00:35:20,548 --> 00:35:22,628
It actually asked me one clarifying question.
513
00:35:22,628 --> 00:35:26,088
I answered that and it's like, all right, I'll let you know when I'm done.
514
00:35:26,148 --> 00:35:30,888
And 10 minutes later, had found, went through 60 sources.
515
00:35:30,988 --> 00:35:33,888
It found me six different places I could buy them.
516
00:35:33,888 --> 00:35:43,088
It found me the company that had patented those screws and then where other distributors
were, including some very common ones that I would have never found because they have
517
00:35:43,088 --> 00:35:44,888
terrible internet presence.
518
00:35:45,068 --> 00:35:46,588
And like, it's not searchable.
519
00:35:46,588 --> 00:35:47,808
I didn't have a skew.
520
00:35:47,872 --> 00:35:50,376
I was like shocked that it was that good.
521
00:35:50,376 --> 00:35:54,624
Like that it found all that for me and made it very easy to then purchase.
522
00:35:54,624 --> 00:35:55,424
Cool.
523
00:35:56,484 --> 00:36:01,926
Pretty impressive, So that's the OpenAI deep research function.
524
00:36:03,191 --> 00:36:03,567
Yeah.
525
00:36:03,567 --> 00:36:05,383
know if I can even do it.
526
00:36:05,383 --> 00:36:07,852
Can you do it on the, it's right there, yeah.
527
00:36:07,852 --> 00:36:09,570
On the desktop app there.
528
00:36:11,417 --> 00:36:13,230
It seems like now there's a limit.
529
00:36:13,230 --> 00:36:15,543
says I have eight available until March 28th.
530
00:36:15,898 --> 00:36:18,638
Okay, yeah, I haven't tried it at all.
531
00:36:18,638 --> 00:36:34,138
I've kind of been have barely used open AI I did I turned off my subscription again, so
kind of I've hobbled myself in that department I'm all in sim theory at the moment, but um
532
00:36:34,138 --> 00:36:36,798
yeah Cool cool cool cool.
533
00:36:36,798 --> 00:36:45,400
I did you know I had a good example like with row who's building the ps2 The moment like
we were sitting down
534
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:56,256
last week trying to nut out this like tuning problem with the stepper motor and my
response to everything at the moment is I'll just build an agent which will help us with
535
00:36:56,256 --> 00:37:10,884
this spin up another agent in sim theory train it on train it on some stepper motor basics
fed it some spec sheets and then started asking questions about this you know very
536
00:37:10,884 --> 00:37:13,865
specific tuning question that Ro had
537
00:37:14,174 --> 00:37:14,975
Yeah.
538
00:37:15,009 --> 00:37:25,212
And it was a great example of when you know nothing about the subject area, how opaque or
how unverifiable the results are.
539
00:37:25,212 --> 00:37:36,625
Like I was standing at my desk on my computer with my agent, but Ro was the one sort of
prompting and then was spitting out these responses, which looked great and comprehensive
540
00:37:36,625 --> 00:37:42,186
and blah, but like, I'm like, look, it's over to you now.
541
00:37:42,186 --> 00:37:44,997
Like I don't, can't look at this and tell.
542
00:37:45,387 --> 00:37:55,284
whether any of this is useful or true or like yeah I guess we're just not at that point
where we can trust it to that extent
543
00:37:57,142 --> 00:38:02,119
Yeah, I guess what do you do like use another AI to verify the first one?
544
00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:04,078
yeah, maybe.
545
00:38:04,574 --> 00:38:07,949
You call a professional, hey, my AI is saying this.
546
00:38:08,390 --> 00:38:11,298
Can you make sure that it's right?
547
00:38:11,298 --> 00:38:16,293
they'd love that one there, You are just a verification tool now.
548
00:38:16,293 --> 00:38:17,353
I'm sorry.
549
00:38:17,710 --> 00:38:19,996
But we're going to get those calls, you know, right?
550
00:38:19,996 --> 00:38:22,651
Like I'm trying to get my CNC to run.
551
00:38:24,652 --> 00:38:26,769
I'm trying to make these plywood parts.
552
00:38:29,688 --> 00:38:34,041
but yeah, look, Claude 3.7, Sonnet 3.7, whatever it's called.
553
00:38:34,422 --> 00:38:37,444
I've used it heaps in cursor this week.
554
00:38:37,464 --> 00:38:39,465
I've, it seems great.
555
00:38:39,946 --> 00:38:45,671
it's very impressive at single-shutting projects.
556
00:38:45,671 --> 00:38:51,635
I gave it just a few, perhaps unfair tests.
557
00:38:52,056 --> 00:38:57,485
I gave it the whole Kitterparts configurator project and said, Hey, can you just
558
00:38:57,485 --> 00:39:08,405
Rebuild this from scratch, but make it mobile friendly buddy bar and it did it had a great
attempt at it I was really impressed with Wasn't particularly functional was like oh,
559
00:39:08,405 --> 00:39:09,665
that's pretty good.
560
00:39:09,665 --> 00:39:13,885
It's like a single shot But then the more I worked with it.
561
00:39:13,885 --> 00:39:26,865
I'd started very quickly started going around in circles, so it's not like mind-blown oh
my god, this is like Ten times better than 3.5, but it does seem pretty solid and
562
00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:27,511
impressive
563
00:39:27,511 --> 00:39:29,430
But yeah, we'll see.
564
00:39:29,430 --> 00:39:33,124
We'll see how it progresses, I suppose.
565
00:39:34,188 --> 00:39:35,901
Your camera's gone funny.
566
00:39:36,585 --> 00:39:38,511
Cameraman, you're here.
567
00:39:38,511 --> 00:39:39,443
You want to just stay there?
568
00:39:39,443 --> 00:39:41,008
It's Vaseline mode.
569
00:39:41,008 --> 00:39:42,072
Ridiculous.
570
00:39:43,292 --> 00:39:46,747
It takes my like complete concentration away every time it happens.
571
00:39:46,747 --> 00:39:49,527
I know, It's like, I'm very familiar with this.
572
00:39:49,527 --> 00:39:50,807
It's like having a toddler.
573
00:39:50,807 --> 00:39:53,827
It's like trying to have a conversation with an adult with a toddler at your feet.
574
00:39:53,827 --> 00:39:57,147
It's just like constant resets.
575
00:39:57,627 --> 00:40:00,047
So it feels very normal to me.
576
00:40:00,927 --> 00:40:01,927
Yeah, yeah.
577
00:40:01,927 --> 00:40:11,187
I did use Clawed 3.7 to save 350 bucks a year on a Shopify app that I've now deleted.
578
00:40:12,975 --> 00:40:20,215
annual subscription was due the next day and I was like, oh yeah, I really don't like that
app and I don't want to pay another 350 bucks.
579
00:40:20,795 --> 00:40:24,035
Let's just entirely replace that functionality.
580
00:40:24,415 --> 00:40:33,515
Um, and it took me about an hour and I coded up a new review app and it's for the website.
581
00:40:34,235 --> 00:40:35,975
Implemented it, rolled it out.
582
00:40:35,975 --> 00:40:37,255
on the front page.
583
00:40:38,761 --> 00:40:40,704
turned off the Shopify app, walked away.
584
00:40:40,704 --> 00:40:46,240
Haven't rolled it onto the product pages yet, but that's just on my to-do list for next
week.
585
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:49,226
You seriously, dude, I need to do that.
586
00:40:49,509 --> 00:40:51,933
Can you sell me that, that subscription now?
587
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,900
Can you start selling this?
588
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:55,863
Cause I need this, I need this too.
589
00:40:56,703 --> 00:41:05,947
I've built it in a kind of dumb way and I now then have to build a system for myself to
ensure that I ask for reviews.
590
00:41:05,947 --> 00:41:12,889
Like I'll build a little automation, whatever reminder of like to ensure that I'm
soliciting reviews from customers.
591
00:41:12,889 --> 00:41:18,582
But in terms of the actual output on the website, I'm much happier with how it looks and
how it works.
592
00:41:18,582 --> 00:41:21,874
so yeah, but it was a bit of a no brainer.
593
00:41:21,874 --> 00:41:23,025
Did you hear that?
594
00:41:23,924 --> 00:41:24,317
You did?
595
00:41:24,317 --> 00:41:25,628
Okay.
596
00:41:26,170 --> 00:41:27,931
I was trying to make something.
597
00:41:28,072 --> 00:41:29,153
That's good.
598
00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:31,067
That's not what I wanted.
599
00:41:31,067 --> 00:41:32,197
Hmm.
600
00:41:32,758 --> 00:41:35,520
We shall try this.
601
00:41:36,291 --> 00:41:37,312
yeah, that's, that's amazing.
602
00:41:37,312 --> 00:41:46,017
I, that's, as you were describing that I was going from really impressed in like, that's
so cool.
603
00:41:46,017 --> 00:41:49,091
I also have a review app that I don't really love.
604
00:41:49,732 --> 00:41:56,858
And yeah, they all end up being decently costly and it's like an email sender.
605
00:41:56,858 --> 00:42:01,167
And then it presents stars and.
606
00:42:01,167 --> 00:42:11,786
Sometimes photos if even people even do that, but it is important in terms of What do they
call that like social, you know trust in?
607
00:42:11,787 --> 00:42:19,023
That you have if you haven't made them up like you completely make all of them up and
nobody would ever know Except for you get sued eventually
608
00:42:19,499 --> 00:42:33,880
But just to be devil's advocate, I was thinking like, well now you have hamstrung this
tool a bit, and is that now worth the $350 a year and your time to have done this and to
609
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,420
deal with it going forward?
610
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,540
And I think it is.
611
00:42:38,540 --> 00:42:40,100
I think you could probably make it better
612
00:42:42,335 --> 00:42:50,909
And I hate those subscriptions too, that like they're a little tacked on things to Shopify
that like, I don't really want to pay that, but I don't know.
613
00:42:50,909 --> 00:42:52,155
Like how long is it going to take you?
614
00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:58,471
And you're pretty good at following up, guess, but like, will you finish that out and get
the rest of it tackled?
615
00:42:59,028 --> 00:43:02,268
Yeah, yeah, I'm confident that I will.
616
00:43:04,268 --> 00:43:19,868
And I've got a pretty tight sort of job closeout function in Airtable where I can see like
who I've asked for a review, what their feedback was, things like that.
617
00:43:19,868 --> 00:43:28,088
So I'm confident that with a few zaps, a few automations and stuff that I'll be able to
close out the loop.
618
00:43:28,979 --> 00:43:32,941
pretty seamlessly without making too much extra work for myself.
619
00:43:33,242 --> 00:43:36,564
But you're right, it's only 350 bucks.
620
00:43:37,685 --> 00:43:51,555
if I value my time at, my quoting time, I haven't checked these stats for a while, but
like last time I calculated this, like I worked out what I can quote per hour if I've got
621
00:43:51,555 --> 00:43:57,273
leads sitting there and then what my conversion rate is and like in that sort of...
622
00:43:57,273 --> 00:44:06,094
rough sense, you know, I'm worth thousands of dollars an hour to the company to be just
focused in quoting.
623
00:44:06,094 --> 00:44:07,135
And so
624
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:08,465
Yeah.
625
00:44:09,625 --> 00:44:09,865
Yeah.
626
00:44:09,865 --> 00:44:11,245
I don't mean to like downplay it.
627
00:44:11,245 --> 00:44:13,469
just, just made me think about it.
628
00:44:13,469 --> 00:44:16,332
It's a point because you know, what's that $350 worth?
629
00:44:16,332 --> 00:44:24,153
It's, know, maybe 20 minutes of my time or something in terms of what I can generate for
revenue.
630
00:44:24,153 --> 00:44:27,248
So yeah, it's a tricky one to balance.
631
00:44:27,248 --> 00:44:30,019
features and stuff, that's better than what it was.
632
00:44:30,019 --> 00:44:33,401
And a lot of these are tiered based on use.
633
00:44:33,401 --> 00:44:38,983
like, when I first started using the one we have now.
634
00:44:39,163 --> 00:44:47,036
It, I think we got 50 email sends a month and we're now pretty far over that.
635
00:44:47,036 --> 00:44:53,926
So I just have a portion of them that don't get asked to review, which I know like I get
annoyed by the review things too, but it's like.
636
00:44:53,926 --> 00:44:54,353
Hmm.
637
00:44:54,353 --> 00:44:57,434
does convert and it does.
638
00:44:57,474 --> 00:44:58,224
It's always amazing.
639
00:44:58,224 --> 00:44:59,374
It's just amazing.
640
00:44:59,374 --> 00:45:03,847
If you ever think, and you're not somebody that sells something you think that marketing
emails don't work.
641
00:45:03,847 --> 00:45:05,727
Well, they do.
642
00:45:05,727 --> 00:45:11,609
Like, even if they're annoying, they almost always convert some amount of dollars.
643
00:45:11,809 --> 00:45:20,263
And even if, even if, even if you don't even put a link to purchase in there and somehow
you found a way to track it, it's like over the
644
00:45:20,263 --> 00:45:22,134
15 years I've been selling stuff on the internet.
645
00:45:22,134 --> 00:45:28,230
like people will click back to your website and find a way or it reminds them that you
exist.
646
00:45:28,230 --> 00:45:29,222
You just muted yourself.
647
00:45:29,222 --> 00:45:31,656
Just down theory.
648
00:45:33,900 --> 00:45:34,896
you
649
00:45:36,474 --> 00:45:39,124
Yeah, I...
650
00:45:39,467 --> 00:45:40,469
shush.
651
00:45:41,380 --> 00:45:44,301
Not you, Siri was talking to me.
652
00:45:46,283 --> 00:45:55,108
Yeah, they do convert and yeah, I'm always torn about sending the EDMs and I forget to do
it.
653
00:45:55,108 --> 00:46:00,291
I think I have a lot of internal resistance about sending those sorts of marketing emails.
654
00:46:00,291 --> 00:46:03,152
I got one yesterday actually, which quite impressed me.
655
00:46:03,513 --> 00:46:09,156
And maybe this is like a trend in marketing emails that's happening now that I'm unaware
of.
656
00:46:09,244 --> 00:46:17,224
But it was completely plain text, like it just looked like a personalized, an actual
personalized email because it just looked like a normal email.
657
00:46:17,224 --> 00:46:19,004
There were no embedded images.
658
00:46:19,504 --> 00:46:26,024
There was one hyperlink to click through to whatever the promotion was.
659
00:46:26,024 --> 00:46:28,964
And I was like, oh, that actually got my attention.
660
00:46:28,964 --> 00:46:34,184
Like I opened that email because it looked like a normal email and I read it because it
looked like a normal email.
661
00:46:34,184 --> 00:46:36,204
And I was like, oh, that's kind of smart.
662
00:46:36,204 --> 00:46:36,804
I like that.
663
00:46:36,804 --> 00:46:37,897
It's not shiny.
664
00:46:37,897 --> 00:46:38,347
Yeah.
665
00:46:38,347 --> 00:46:39,208
Right.
666
00:46:40,529 --> 00:46:41,429
Yeah.
667
00:46:42,991 --> 00:46:45,947
I struggled to just make emails simple.
668
00:46:45,947 --> 00:46:52,038
And the problem for anybody that gets our emails, you'll see this as I duplicate the most
recent email.
669
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:54,731
And I'm like, well, there's all this good stuff in here.
670
00:46:54,731 --> 00:46:56,493
I don't want to lose it for if when I need it.
671
00:46:56,493 --> 00:47:01,627
And then some just fricking put too much crap in an email.
672
00:47:01,627 --> 00:47:06,781
I need to spend a better, spend my time better, I guess on that.
673
00:47:07,712 --> 00:47:08,486
see if this works.
674
00:47:08,486 --> 00:47:09,651
that is bad.
675
00:47:09,651 --> 00:47:11,134
That's not what I wanted.
676
00:47:11,845 --> 00:47:12,457
So I,
677
00:47:12,457 --> 00:47:12,917
that.
678
00:47:12,917 --> 00:47:14,717
I can do that voiceover for you Justin.
679
00:47:14,717 --> 00:47:16,437
Here we go.
680
00:47:18,517 --> 00:47:20,377
Improvement of the week.
681
00:47:22,033 --> 00:47:22,774
Perfect.
682
00:47:22,774 --> 00:47:24,554
That's exactly what we needed.
683
00:47:24,595 --> 00:47:24,865
Yeah.
684
00:47:24,865 --> 00:47:27,706
It's better than the 11 labs voice generator.
685
00:47:27,706 --> 00:47:33,601
just used, something that had driven me crazy for the entire time.
686
00:47:33,601 --> 00:47:37,914
I've had this shop is the, it's a nice place.
687
00:47:37,914 --> 00:47:40,216
It's got a heater in the main shop.
688
00:47:40,216 --> 00:47:44,058
It's just like a big gas heater keeps it just what we need.
689
00:47:44,058 --> 00:47:46,669
I've got a heater in my office that keeps the office.
690
00:47:46,669 --> 00:47:48,510
The bathroom has no heater.
691
00:47:48,958 --> 00:47:55,273
So we keep the door open overnight to hopefully ambiently heat the bathroom, which is
annoying.
692
00:47:55,273 --> 00:47:56,775
It's not a very big room.
693
00:47:56,775 --> 00:48:05,472
But then I get here in the morning and it's not warm enough and I need to, you know, do my
normal routine and it's freezing cold in there and it drove me crazy.
694
00:48:05,472 --> 00:48:11,246
was like, why am I using the restroom in 55 degree weather?
695
00:48:11,787 --> 00:48:14,268
So I just put a heater in the bathroom this week.
696
00:48:16,931 --> 00:48:18,252
So stupid.
697
00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:22,039
55 degrees, 12 degrees, okay.
698
00:48:22,944 --> 00:48:24,603
58 degrees, let's say.
699
00:48:26,039 --> 00:48:27,042
Yeah.
700
00:48:27,229 --> 00:48:28,136
Yeah, yeah.
701
00:48:28,136 --> 00:48:29,632
That's not that cold.
702
00:48:30,650 --> 00:48:37,023
It's an event where you gotta have a decent amount of your body exposed and that makes it
worse.
703
00:48:38,403 --> 00:48:42,331
Okay, no, no, I won't be dismissive of your...
704
00:48:43,095 --> 00:48:44,923
your so-called cold weather.
705
00:48:44,923 --> 00:48:45,564
are we talking about?
706
00:48:45,564 --> 00:48:46,955
That's not cold to you?
707
00:48:49,295 --> 00:48:55,103
This sounds like a regular, cool, central Victorian morning, but sure.
708
00:48:57,348 --> 00:48:58,849
yeah, yeah, yeah.
709
00:48:59,851 --> 00:49:01,815
it's just a cold doney, mate.
710
00:49:01,815 --> 00:49:03,176
Get used to it.
711
00:49:05,076 --> 00:49:10,463
Honey, just learned that on Bluey and I was gonna ask you about it.
712
00:49:10,524 --> 00:49:12,378
Is this like derogatory in some way?
713
00:49:12,378 --> 00:49:16,815
Like mom didn't like the word on Bluey.
714
00:49:17,445 --> 00:49:20,574
nothing wrong with Danny, it's just a bit, you know, ocker.
715
00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:29,465
like Aaron and I were trying to take whether or not that meant like Christmas vacation and
he says, clean it out the shitter.
716
00:49:29,465 --> 00:49:32,020
It's like, is it like calling it the shitter?
717
00:49:33,255 --> 00:49:34,246
No, that's a bit...
718
00:49:34,246 --> 00:49:39,008
well, to my ears that's a bit more like abrasive and obnoxious.
719
00:49:39,208 --> 00:49:42,810
Yeah, to my delicate ears anyway.
720
00:49:44,711 --> 00:49:45,732
Improvement of the week.
721
00:49:45,732 --> 00:49:53,796
Look, it really just has to come down to the fact that I sealed the table tennis table
with some clear coat finally.
722
00:49:54,237 --> 00:49:59,449
That's the most important and pressing shop improvement that needed to be done.
723
00:49:59,449 --> 00:50:01,640
Yeah.
724
00:50:02,161 --> 00:50:02,992
Right.
725
00:50:03,095 --> 00:50:05,540
What was the thing you posted about on the walls?
726
00:50:05,643 --> 00:50:08,081
Were they like vinyl records?
727
00:50:08,081 --> 00:50:10,817
was wondering if that would make sense to anybody else.
728
00:50:10,817 --> 00:50:12,950
No, they were table tennis rubbers.
729
00:50:13,894 --> 00:50:17,784
So you know, the rubber that you buy and apply to your bat.
730
00:50:17,784 --> 00:50:20,154
Okay, okay.
731
00:50:20,485 --> 00:50:21,361
Collect them all
732
00:50:21,361 --> 00:50:22,083
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
733
00:50:22,083 --> 00:50:25,531
I have to stop buying table tennis rubbers running out of money.
734
00:50:27,578 --> 00:50:29,180
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
735
00:50:31,277 --> 00:50:32,087
Yeah.
736
00:50:32,449 --> 00:50:35,415
Well, if you're watching this, I'm sorry about my camera.
737
00:50:35,415 --> 00:50:37,578
We'll get that fixed.
738
00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:39,391
I'm looking at cameras currently.
739
00:50:39,391 --> 00:50:44,210
Use some of the profit of this podcast.
740
00:50:45,757 --> 00:50:46,817
It's gonna be great.
741
00:50:48,387 --> 00:50:49,269
Yes.
742
00:50:49,856 --> 00:50:50,575
Yes.
743
00:50:50,575 --> 00:50:55,038
show you sympathy with some Vaseline on my lens.
744
00:50:55,038 --> 00:50:55,889
Look, I can do it now.
745
00:50:55,889 --> 00:50:58,920
This will be a nice little closing gesture.
746
00:50:59,154 --> 00:51:01,742
I don't have Vaseline on my desk, I promise.
747
00:51:02,463 --> 00:51:03,704
yeah, look at that.
748
00:51:03,704 --> 00:51:05,045
It's beautiful.
749
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:08,746
that's so, that hurts a little bit.
750
00:51:09,051 --> 00:51:09,753
Daddy.
751
00:51:09,753 --> 00:51:11,282
Yeah, perfect sync.
752
00:51:11,282 --> 00:51:12,454
my god.
753
00:51:12,976 --> 00:51:13,659
my god.
754
00:51:13,659 --> 00:51:15,094
We just synced with the sound.
755
00:51:15,094 --> 00:51:16,448
That was crazy.
756
00:51:16,448 --> 00:51:17,463
I gotta end on that.
757
00:51:17,463 --> 00:51:19,218
I just got some on my face.
758
00:51:19,218 --> 00:51:19,679
dear.
759
00:51:19,679 --> 00:51:21,743
Ugh, I'm tired.
760
00:51:21,743 --> 00:51:23,967
My video's still not working.