I often code directly on the machine control, including single blocking a running program and adding a line while the program is paused.

Editor on older CNC machines usually doesn’t even do lowercase and often has limited alphabet keys. Think '80s green or amber screen.

A machinist’s coding workflow can be real fucky. I go from CAM which is like a highly complex visual programming IDE to notepad. If I’m being fancy I use notepad++ for syntax highlights and diff’ing.

Woodchippers are four stroke. Most probably have a V-twin similar to a riding lawnmower.

You could totally hotrod the hell out of it, however. Just like racing gokarts, you could run nitrous or a turbo.

Fun for the whole family. “Click!”

If you don’t already work in a trade, you’d likely have a bright future as a skilled blue collar worker. Your vocabulary would allow you to perform the deep magic.

not all beauty is worth pain