Quitting a boring job, Startups, Whitespace is a langauge! And more – Notes from 19th March 2026
Posted by Hazlitt Eastman
On the 18th March, fourteen freelancers got together in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to discuss self employment, startups, tech, new media and many other things.
Here is a summary of some of the things we talked about:
- The various ways of using Claude for development
- Working late into the night to fix broken technology
- Quitting a boring job and going freelance.
- Migrating to Docker
- Telling an AI coding agent that it has stuffed up costs tokens and therefore cash!
- Working in startups
- Starting a startup and getting funding
- Being made redundant is everyday life
- How to market yourself
- Learning new technology
- Brainfuck and Whitespace really are programming languages!
- Contributing to open source