Pacing yourself, Bluesky and virtual machines – freelancers meet up 15th Nov
Posted by Paul Silver
On Wednesday 15th November, 2023, we had our freelancers meet in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton. 13 people came along.
As usual, conversation hopped around quite a lot, here are the topics I noted down:
- DDEV for building local development environments
- Lagoon and Docker
- Bluesky experiences
- Eternal September
- What has backend development got so complicated?
- LinkedIn makes me sick
- Handling money (and why aren’t we better at it?)
- Farm Christmas meal
- Pacing yourself with your work
- Dealing with companies after a death in the family
- Framer website builder looks impressive and worrying
- LLMs and worries about the future
- The making of and uses of chicken stock
- Managing your money
- Being caught out by brand history you’ve never heard
- “They were only following purchase orders”
- Taking care of your body when doing physical activity