Freelancers meeting notes from 8th October 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 8th October, thirteen freelancers met in the Battle of Trafalgar to talk tech, business and all things freelancing. This is some of what we talked about:
- LLM / Token instances on DigitalOcean
- Sonnet 4.5
- AI as a whole field
- The market is still very quiet
- Seeing your clients shrink
- Speculative work
- Creators of forms using progressive disclosure should be punished, but they shouldn’t know for how long
- Clients expecting work for free
- Learning marketing by deconstructing adverts – still progressing on Banter VR
- A trip around France and Spain
- The Dali museum in Figueres is excellent
- Politics should be run by people of normal working age
- Trying to pay out of your pension – not as simple as you’d hope
- Tax office frustrations
- Having a lodger
- Allowing people to run Javascript on your server
- Retiring early enough to enjoy it
- Parking techniques we didn’t know about
- The varied facets of autism
- Covid and its effects on the care ecosystem
- mRNA vaccines
(Sorry, no time for more in-depth notes about any of the topics this week.)