When buying isn't owning
Louis Rossmann's Fulu Foundation tour on Section 1201, right to repair, and why the stuff you paid for stops working when the vendor says so.
Read// writing
Notes from the shop & the editor.
Essays and field notes on machining, programming, and the strange, productive overlap where a chip and a function call can both ruin your afternoon.
2026
You don't need Office 365 for a machine shop office
Most manufacturing offices only need documents, spreadsheets, and a shared drive with backups. Open source and self-hosted tools cover that — and you can run your own LLM without sending drawings to ChatGPT.
ReadWhy I use Cursor
Shop floor supervisor and machinist who writes software on the side. Cursor is the editor I reach for when I need to build something and ship it.
ReadWhy Autodesk Fusion
I've used Autodesk Fusion since day one. I've tried other big CAM packages — Fusion is still my favorite.
ReadOn tolerances — in metal and in code
A ±0.02 mm tolerance and a well-typed function are doing the same job. A short note on why precision is a habit, not a setting.
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