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Meeting notes from 21st May 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 21st May, 9 freelancers in the web industry met in the Lord Nelson pub, Brighton, to talk all things freelancing and tech. This is some of what we talked about: Old developers who hate modern dependences Updating an old project is especially hard in Javascript What has “npm audit fix” actually done? Who […]
Meeting notes from 14th May 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 14th May 2025, ten freelancers gathered together in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to talk all things freelancing and tech, and a surprising amount of baking too. Here’s my notes from the evening: Still trying to get a business bank account due to delays of bad IT Formula 1 Tech conferences Vibe coding […]
Dave’s first speaking event and meeting notes from 7th May 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On 7th May, ten freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn to talk all things freelancing and tech. This is some of what we talked about: Matomo – PHP based web analytics package Tariffs and changes since last week Trying to get a business bank account when the bank IT is crap Monzo becoming an […]
Limiting exposure to clients and meeting notes from 30th April 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 30th April, 17 freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to talk all things self employment and tech. This is some of what was talked about: Clients not testing when asked Typing your code Enjoying digging through an undocumented and messy codebase The best browsers for ad blocking A sudden outbreak of […]