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Thanks to Hazlitt
Posted by Paul Silver
Thank you, Hazlitt for continuing to help us all by improving the Farm website. Recent updates are to the navigation in this blog area, which means I can start importing my archive of meeting notes. Thanks very much to him, and if you’re looking for a great freelance PHP, WordPress and React programmer, please let […]
Funny Farm and meeting notes from 20th August 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 20th August, eleven freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to chat all things freelancing and tech. This was the funniest Farm meeting in a long time and I haven’t laughed so much in ages. I don’t know whether it was the mix of people, something in the water (or indeed, beer) […]
Looking for PHP work, reducing water use by deleting email, and our freelancers meeting notes for 13th August 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On 13th August, 13 freelancers got together in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to talk all things freelancing, tech, and whatever was on our minds. This is some of what was talked about: Working on tech to help charities Well meaning government schemes that are a nightmare when exploited by wideboys PyCon plans Getting a […]
Freelancer meeting notes from 6th August 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 6th August, eleven freelancers got together in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to talk all things tech and nonsense. This was one of those weeks where our conversations drifted all over the place, so my notes are inadequate for what we covered. Still, here’s a taste of the evening: Surprise AWS bills The […]
Why use ORMs and other notes from our freelancers meet up on 30th July 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 30th July, 13 freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to chat all things self employment and tech… and many diversions. This is some of what we talked about: Dealing with recruitment agencies (there is some info about this in this article) Google Ads reps are being very aggressive The Online Safety […]