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Donations to Open Sources projects and more, freelancers meet on 22nd Jan
Posted by Paul Silver
On 22nd January 2025, 11 freelancers met in the Lord Nelson pub in Brighton to talk all things self employment and tech. This is some of what we talked about: Donations to Open Source projects as funding for programming Government Digital Services is being revamped Musk’s “salute” at Trump’s inauguration Getting a rat mat to […]
Drupal CMS launches, Toad in the Hole the game – freelancers meet on 15th January 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
Our second meeting in 2025 was relatively quiet, with ten freelancers coming to the Lord Nelson to chat. This is some of what we talked about, I missed noting several topics down as I was too busy talking to interesting folk to remember to write: Drupal CMS 1.0 Bluesky ‘hacks’ to see your followers The […]
Welcoming in 2025 and the Recession Question
Posted by Paul Silver
The evening of our first freelancers meet up of 2025 was snowy, which is quite a surprise for Brighton as we get very little snow. Happily, fourteen freelancers made it through the slush to meet in the Lord Nelson Inn in Brighton. This is some of what we talked about: Snow! The City of London […]
Notes from our freelancers meet up on 18th December 2024
Posted by Paul Silver
Our last freelancers meet up of 2024 saw 15 of us meet in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton. This is some of what we talked about: Writing straight HTML and CSS with no Bootstrap/front end framework Cooking gluten free pastry (Laura’s recommendation: coconut oil) Having work suddenly cancelled or put off A project […]