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Freelancers meet 20th Sept: Finding freelance development work
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 20th September 2023 we had our freelancers networking meet in the Battle of Trafalgar pub, on an evening of very bad weather. 12 people came along. Topics of conversation: Is Chat-GPT helping inexperienced programmers get better or just advanced ones code faster? Going freelance Is there Go work around as a contractor / […]
Brighton freelancers meet on 13th September 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
For this Wednesday we met in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton, inside as the weather wasn’t great. 21 people attended. Some of our topics of conversation: Clients trying to get you to sign contracts with impossible clauses What’s the current freelance market like? PHP Sussex on YouTube UK work being affected by the […]
Freelancers meet up on 6th September 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
We held our freelancers networking meet up on 6th September in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub, Brighton. Ten members came along. Topics of conversation: Designing in Photoshop vs Figma vs Webflow Looking for WordPress work How easy is it to find freelancing work at the moment? Supabase – an open source […]
Freelancers networking on 30th August
Posted by Paul Silver
On Wednesday 30th August 2023 the Farm freelancers networking event was in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub, Brighton. 14 people came along. This is some of what we talked about: Motivation and regaining it Controllers and synths Holidays Finding clients Anti-work and David Graeber The exploitative aspects of work (both for […]
Farm freelancers meet up on 23rd August
Posted by Paul Silver
Our meeting was once again in the Battle of Trafalgar pub. Sam kindly filled in for me and gave me these (rather brief) notes: Did Paul unbook the table 😛 New member came all the way down from London Teaching in China Not writing down the notes… Watching videos that make you happy (or not) […]
Farm 16th August 2023: AR glasses demo and dev chat
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 16th of August we had our freelancers networking meet in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar. 16 people came in all. Here is some of what we talked about: Freelancing work levels Taiwan Wanting both change and no change Getting your head around programming in Rust Sketch-a-Sketch AI drawing app Rokid […]
Farm freelancers networking on 9th August 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
On 9th August we had our freelancers networking meet in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar. 12 people attended across the evening. These are the topics I heard talked about: Pride! Living in Taiwan The many coworking spaces in Brighton Making videos of your product Karaoke experiences LINE (Whatsapp alternative heavily used in […]
Freelancers meet up in Brighton on 2nd August 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
Last week we had our freelancers networking meet up in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton. Ten people attended, including James for the first time. Here is some of what we talked about: When to look for rental property Working on your own projects React and React Native Controlling your expenses The room that […]
Freelancers meet up 26th July 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
We had a special meet up on the 26th July. We started with member talks at our Show and Tell special at The FuseBox, then departed to the Battle of Trafalgar pub to continue the conversations. Here’s what we talked about: StackOverflow traffic halving – all down to AI/LLM use? About to go freelance I […]
Show and Tell, a Farm special
Posted by Paul Silver
Last week we started early at The FuseBox for a Show and Tell by members. Many thanks to Wired Sussex for letting us use their amazing facilities. The Show and Tell format (borrowed liberally from the version run monthly at The Skiff) gives each speaker five minutes to talk about their subject, then a few […]
Freelancers meet on 19th July 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
For our Farm freelancers meeting on 19th July we met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar, Brighton. 12 people came along. My list of what we talked about is shorter than usual as there were several topics covered that were private, here’s what I can list: The Albion Hotel fires Worthing Digital […]
Farm meet 12th July 2023 – Reflections on VR night, Brighton tourist attractions and PHP musings
Posted by Paul Silver
This week the Farm freelancers networking took place in the Shakespeare’s Head pub near Seven Dials in Brighton. 14 people came along. Farm VR night Farm website plans Colour e-ink Android tablet demo (very fancy!) VR and motion sickness Sidequest and streaming content out of VR Tilt Five Augmented Reality – useful or not? The […]
Freelancers in VR, a Farm special
Posted by Paul Silver
Andy sweeps down a river in Banter Last week we were invited to The FuseBox by Wired Sussex to enjoy several Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences. It was great fun! Some Farm members are very into VR and are well known to The FuseBox, they and Jay from Wired Sussex and Peter from VR […]
Freelancers networking on 28th June 2023 – WP development, paying tax on account and more
Posted by Paul Silver
We had our freelancers networking meet on 28th June in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar, Brighton. 17 people came along. This is a little of what we talked about: Very modern WordPress development Twitter API use in mid-2023 Where to try vertical mouse/mice in Brighton? Ergonomic equipment and reasons to use it […]
VR Special next week!
Posted by Paul Silver
Our meeting next week is a special you don’t want to miss! We will be at The FuseBox using their Immersive Lab to explore the possibilities of Virtual Reality. Freelancer? Join us to try all sorts of VR experiences and to talk over both development and the implications of VR technology with experienced users and people […]
Farm freelancers meet 21st June 2023 – UX Brighton, RSI friendly equipment and pets
Posted by Paul Silver
This week our freelancers networking meet up was in the Battle of Trafalgar pub, Brighton. I couldn’t make it and Laura kindly held the fort and took some notes for us: The Battle of Trafalgar is changing hands soon Puddings How can you photograph yourself with your eyes closed? UX Brighton Vertical mouse Keyboard for […]
Freelancers meet 14th June – Mac hassles, Vision Pro, and causing technical chaos
Posted by Paul Silver
This week we had 14 people at our freelancers networking event, spread across three tables in the beer garden of the Hampton Arms in Brighton. It was great to be outside for the whole meet up. Here are my notes of what was talked about. I missed lots of conversations as I was deep into […]
Notes from 7th June 2023
Posted by Paul Silver
We had our meeting in the Battle of Trafalgar pub. Seventeen people attended. Haze kindly hosted as Paul couldn’t make it. These are his notes on what was talked about: Starting work on an undocumented codebase Spending days trying to get one thing to work Supporting elderly parents Apple’s insanely expensive VR headset! Which laptop […]