Parts Department

Jem and Justin chat about workshop robots, tumbling systems, and e-commerce headaches. Justin battles Amazon's complex seller requirements while Jem celebrates proper hydration as his secret productivity weapon. The episode ends with Justin's rant about Fastenal's ridiculous account system preventing him from buying simple screws.

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DISCUSSED:

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• Atlas Humanoid
• Rover 6 Wheel Robot
• Single phase vac pumps F4 ꘎
• PDX CNC BlackBox vacuum distribuitor
• 500 meters of dowels
• 40 years to discover this drug!? ꘎ Drink enough water!
• Designing interfaces with dictation whilst driving ꘎
• React magic ohmygawd ꘎
• New Rules to correct overzealous Agent Cursor
• Fixed a long standing bug on Shopify
• Rant: Fastenal - you sell commodity items but make it super hard to purchase them online? Idiots ⠄
• Created account, wouldn't let me buy screws. Contacted local store. They had to submit a "branch account creation" which takes another 48 hours.
• Don't be like Fastenal

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin chat about shop improvements, from Justin's new dust boot designs to Jem's successful tumbling solution using local beeswax polish. They discuss business challenges like Justin's Shopify glitch that blocked dust boot sales and Jem's Profit First distribution adjustments. Tech talk includes Claude 3.7's capabilities, AI-powered research, and Jem replacing a $350 review app with custom code. The episode wraps with Justin's bathroom heater installation and Jem's table tennis upgrades.

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DISCUSSED:

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• Blocked Add to Cart Crisis ⠄
• Sentry.io - bug finder
• KittaConfig Beta
• Buy Fucking camera for podcast
• Popped a Line - YCM
• Oops PF no profit ꘎
• Tumbling bees wax sloppy good ꘎

AI ZONE

• New Claude 3.7! Party ꘎
• One shot config rework attempt, unfair?
• Saved $350 and coded a replacement in an hour ꘎
• Deep Research 👀 ⠄
• Hours and hours in cursor this week ꘎
• Slowwwwww cash cows

IMPROVEMENT OF THE WEEK

• JUSTIN - HEATER
• JEM - TABLE TENNIS

00:00 Potato CAM 4 Lyfe

01:17 Product Development and Prototyping Insights

04:23 Sales Trends and Market Analysis

06:33 Website Functionality and Customer Experience

09:18 Coding Practices and Version Control

12:23 Financial Management and Profit Strategies

16:46 Shopify Add to Cart Nightmare

24:27 Financial Priorities: Paying Yourself First

24:56 Machine Maintenance: The Importance of Listening

30:51 Innovative Solutions: Using Technology in the Workshop

33:40 AI in Manufacturing: Exploring New Tools

39:33 Building Custom Solutions: The Value of DIY

47:21 Shop Improvements: Enhancing the Workspace

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Jem and Justin chat shop, managing the endless stream of emails, building AI agents for everything from Profit First to Therapy and everything in between, Jem has been a naughty boy and Toolpath has bought Chatter!

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• Inbox Zero - celebrate or be fearful? ꘎
• Could an AI agent help to manage Profit First?
• PF home accounts out of hand, lawyers say never split up ꘎
• Workflowy ꘎
• Workflow apps,
• Gemini daily driver ꘎
• Cursor
• INDUSTRY NEWS:
• Toolpath buys Chatter
• Al Whatmough on Within Tolerance
• Dust Boot product dev
• Hustle fatigue
• Emotional state too closely linked bank account balance
• Instagram @parts.department

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem & Justin chat Moccamasters, bad millennial design, and coffee snobbery. They cover AirShop updates, YouTube milestones, and a barrel polishing query. Plus, Vention's new sanding cobot, post-processor woes, Cursor coding tips, and the joys of TextExpander. Laura's back on payroll, profit distribution fixed.    

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• Moccamaster makes better coffee than I used to
• Hello Linda
• Thanks for all you that inquired about AirShop
• Shandy Vention Sanding Robot Turnkey - website
• 2025 PF spready upgrade ꘎
• New income goal, new accounts, new fixed distribution amounts, 11 months in. ꘎
• Added Laura back on the team officially
• Jonny post-processor gold star!
• Getting cursor chat to talk to cursor composer? Help
• Terrible LLM emails this week
• New prompt tuning to compensate, still crap.
• PS2 rides shotgun ꘎
• Slow steppers ꘎
• PS2 to States in – Tuesday, 13 May 2025
• Barrel tumbling whelp ꘎

Chapters

• 00:00 Jazzy Hands
• 03:19 Mother-in-law Coffee Experts
• 07:54 Launching New Ventures and Community Engagement
• 10:51 YouTube Success and Content Creation
• 16:34 Automation in Manufacturing and CNC Challenges
• 22:22 AI Post-maker
• 27:00 Navigating Post-Issue Challenges
• 28:07 Understanding Cursor: Chat vs. Composer
• 30:03 The Importance of Context in Coding
• 32:03 Dictation and Its Impact on Productivity
• 34:48 Degradation of AI Models: A Recent Concern
• 38:01 Managing Memory in AI Agents
• 39:53 Setting Up a Local Coding Environment
• 43:00 Progress on the PS2 Project
• 44:33 Timeline for Production and Shipping
• 48:35 Spreadsheet Management and Payroll Insights
• 51:25 Elevator Ding.mp3

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Justin unveils AirShop, a new app to streamline inventory & quoting, born from his own shop's needs. Jem's sales are up, he's dipping dowels & using AI coding! They discuss automation, 5-axis machines, and website woes, and celebrate good weeks.

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• DexArm 😍
• Oops went live with AI pricing ꘎
• Bulk Price Editor
• First GeoCities order ꘎ !!!!
• Within Tolerance EP - 246
• 🟠 AirShop
• Holy fugggen shit take my money ꘎
• Quoting, inventory, what makes an ERP?
• Coding in natural conversation ꘎
• How do I finish SQ 👉 Shopify migration? ⠄
• Shopify variant hell is back ꘎
• Is typing dead ꘎
• Finally a good week ꘎
• Sex toy dowel dipper success ꘎
• Two geocities orders ꘎

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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From nesting software shenanigans to exploring robot-filled shops, Jem and Justin navigate the chaos of running machine businesses. Justin tours a fantastic robot automation shop. They tackle everything from the Bambu firmware mess to pencil sharpener prototypes, while Justin shares his therapy journey. Between testing new productivity tools and fighting cash flow battles, they keep it real about January's challenges and the constant juggle of growth. A classic episode of shop talk meets real life, with a dash of productivity theater and price increase contemplation.    

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• Nesting stories
• OpenNest
• BlockEdit
• Rhinonest / Rhinocam
• The sickness
• Share Cart link
• 80/20 Ideabuilder Extrusion config
• Youtube – I toured a robot workshop (😍)
• First Cuts on PS2 Pencil Sharpener
• Bambu Firmware fiasco
• DeepSeek R1
• Productivity Theatre Quote Register Nonsense ꘎
• Justin gets a therapist
• Update Shottr ?! - annoying fellow
• Raycast
• Bonkers good Jan
• Short Week, Still Behind
• Cash Flow Struggles
• Considering a Weekend Sale
• Upcoming Price Increases
• Auto Tape machines

Chapters

• 00:00 New Year Vibes
• 01:38 Design Software Chat
• 04:27 Cool Configurators
• 07:22 Work-Life Balance
• 09:41 Sick Days
• 12:22 Workflow Tools
• 15:06 Online Product Setup
• 17:39 Extrusion Builds
• 20:10 First Cuts
• 21:38 3D Print Talk
• 22:42 Bambu Drama
• 25:32 AI & Sim Theory
• 29:33 Business Talk
• 30:58 January Numbers
• 34:44 Marketing Tips
• 37:07 Productivity Tools
• 41:25 Therapy Real Talk
• 43:52 Raycast

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Jem and Justin chat about robot training, viral videos, nesting software woes, and inspired dowel finishing methods. Features shop talk about CNC automation, Fusion 360 pains, and label printing solutions.

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• New youtube upcoming, tour
• UR Playtime UR Cobots and Robots
• People are so scared of new ideas (dumb white men) ⠄
• Millions more views, mostly hate comments
• Millions all round.
• Oligarch eyes, vendor lock-in ꘎
• Jem's new muse
• Nesting in Fusion
• More scripts to fix Fusion's massive flaws
• Label printing out of Airtable
• Pool cue dipping rig success ꘎
• Dust boot recommended by Multicam
• New PDX Airport killeth
• 99pi PDX Carpet Episode
• Configurator re-skins
• Plain Jane HTML hosting within Shopify
• Raycast.com - 10% off with link

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin discuss 3D printing technicalities, coding with AI agents as amateur software developers, barrel finishing of timber components, the value of long form video, Jem is reading profit first again, Notebook LM from Google, the fatigue of the hustle.

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• BBL Ideal Printing steps, 0.04mm
• Superb Yoda Model
• Configurator circles
• Cursor coding, AI code workflow
• Dedicated Drilling
• Barrel finishing
• Long term value of long form video
• Linus interview with Colin and Samir
• Profit first, third time lucky
• Notebook LM
• Shopify API check out authentication
• Hustle fatigue
• IG popping orf
• Retrospective journalling value

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin return from holiday breaks and to discuss building cat palaces, AI scripts with Claude. They discuss shop improvements, Gridfinity strategy, and share thoughts on QR codes and self-centering drill jigs. Plus, thoughts on reading habits and notebook psychology.

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• Jem's instas serie (shelves), spouse appreciation
• Expensive weeks off! ꘎
• Cat palace for kids ꘎
• Hot Wheels ꘎
• Preorder Fiasco - 8 hrs with Claude
• Even more Cursor enthusiasm
• Kitta Scam Product ꘎
• Mercury banking
• Scripts, scripts, scripts! – Nack fixes, Label Print on repeat
• Nick Cave ꘎
• Fresh eyes, new resolutions, bad habits ꘎
• Notebook is a place - Verge 2:34:32 (Book) The Notebook - Roland Allen
• Slow to make but rewarding ꘎
• Where do your QR code labels go to? ⠄
• Veritasium QR Code
• Drill Jig for DB - awesome suggestions
• Cheap Self-Centering Vise
• Shirts we got
• Op shop = Thrift Shop
• Bluey Rabbit in space Sleepytime episode

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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An extra special/long episode for doing dishes as you collapse into the holiday season. Thanks for listening this year! Jem and Justin.

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Biggest things or impacts

• Profit First
• Printed product expansion
• Now have 4ct - X1
• CNC tooling
• Understated impact of new child

• Looking forward
• Covid down time and reading profit first
• Sense of ownership

• Flow
• Following 2024 lesson, do the obvious thing
• Simplify software stack
• Double revenue
• Outsource and delegate
• Fiverr, Upwork
• Virtual assistant?
• AI Agents!?!
• Robots, automation?
• CS offloading - disconnect
• Meditating

• OPEX creep
• DIY Config Launch
• Increase product % mix
• Get back on the tools (not too much)
• Default diary

Other

• Eric Larson's - Within Tolerance 5⭐️'s
• ChatGPT swings and roundabouts ꘎
• Discovered second battery
• JUSTIN - make video of offsets on YCM
• Another power outage, options
• Lean day upcoming
• Gemini 2?
• CNC Feeds & Speeds Calculator
• Cursor.com

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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