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The good and bad of clients using AI tools and more notes from 19th August 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 19th August, fifteen freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar in Brighton to talk clients, tech, cats, and other random things. This is a little of what we talked about: Conversational interfaces vs traditional interfaces New work! Clients exploring ideas via Claude AI Clients exposing confidential information via n8n […]
Eclipse! Eclipse! Eclipse! Notes from our meeting on 12th August 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 12th August, 11 freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub to talk… mainly the eclipse, which happened just before our meeting and had 96% coverage of the sun in Brighton. Eclipse! (What did you see, did you have the special glasses, was a welding mask enough?) When […]
Fractional work, marketing affected by AI and more, notes from 5th August 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 5th August, fourteen freelancers gathered in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to talk all things freelancing, tech, and a bunch of random stuff too. This is some of what we talked about: Struggling with motivation Becoming a Fractional CTO Visitor over from Germany Marketing companies affected by […]
Meeting notes from the 29th July 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 29th July, seven freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub to talk self employment, tech and science fiction. Here’s some of what we talked about: AYN Odin 3 gaming console (and more!) Hearing aid tech Gaming PC costs are insane (thanks LLMs!) Sky on the front page […]