GnuCash, task management and more – freelancers meet notes from 16th April 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On 16th April, thirteen freelancers got together in the Lord Nelson to talk all things freelancing and tech. This is some of what we talked about:
- Retainers
- GnuCash for organising your accounts (free and open source)
- Trying to buy property as a freelancer
- Modifying your electric bike battery for longevity
- Finding old code written by a friend!
- Working on very convoluted code
- Having clients who are dependent on you (in a nice way)
- Task management – Clickup, Zendesk, Asana, Jira
- Being Assigned to the Victory
- When Agile meets officialdom
- Drupal and everything being user data
- JSON and the Do Not Use For Evil license, and software licenses in general
- Liz Truss launching her own social network
- Cooking healthily
- James’s recipe webapp – Vanilla recipe manager – https://github.com/jt196/vanilla-cookbook
- The Cursor AI support mess
- Orcas wearing salmon as hats (again)
- Projects getting close to going live
- Adolescence, teenage phone use and attempting to control it
- 11 year old iPhone still getting security updates
- CrowdProperty lending as an investment system