Freelancing advice
Productivity and office space, and notes from our meet up on 1st October 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 1st October, 12 freelancers met up in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to talk all things self employment and tech. This is some of what we talked about: Ruby on Rails drama How Python avoids one party being over controlling When clients or bosses don’t understand that technology has limitations Tilly […]
Marketing as a freelancer, having a perfect memory and more – notes from our 24th September 2025 meet up
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 24th September, 12 freelancers met up in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to talk all things freelancing and tech. Do you really want a perfect memory? PyCon Putting on events in VR Analysing adverts to learn marketing Books for learning marketing: ‘Ogilvy on Advertising’ and ‘Tested Advertising Methods’ Christopher Lash: Culture […]
When to stop and change what you’re doing
Posted by Paul Silver
This is a broad topic, but as general advice it is good to occasionally stop and assess what you’ve been doing and work out whether it is sensible to keep doing that or change. Here’s some examples to help explain: Is your marketing right? An easy one to spot to start with, is your marketing […]
Fighting spec creep and more – freelancers notes from 25th June 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On 25th June, seventeen freelancers got together in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to chat all things self employment, tech and more. It was especially nice to see Matt for the first time in ages. Here’s some of what we talked about: Fighting off AI bots swamping your site and slowing it down or taking […]
Freedom or Fatigue? Navigating Burnout in Freelance Life
Posted by Paul Silver
This is a guest post from copywriter Rosie Buckley The freelance life is exciting; it’s no secret why people choose this path for their career. You can be your own boss, follow a flexible schedule, and work anywhere you want to. Even though freelancing has many benefits, these can be pushed aside if you start […]
Working for bad payers and meeting notes from 5th March 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 5th March 2025, twelve freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn in Brighton to talk all things freelancing and tech. This is some of what we talked about: Blocking over aggressive website crawlers Local games Using AI to help write your own tools Rust and getting into other programming languages Tesla cars being […]
You are your marketing department and notes from our meeting on 26th February 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
A small meeting of eight freelancers on 25th February, but there was a lot of great chat. The smaller meet ups often end up with everyone in the same conversation, which makes for a variety of views and ways to solve the same problem. My notes from our conversations: Work is sporadic in the current […]
Should I grow into an agency?
Posted by Paul Silver
This has been a reoccurring theme through the history of the Farm group. Once you’re doing at least fine as a freelancer, should you grow into an agency? I’m basing the below on the agency I used to work for full time, and the many agencies I’ve known over more than twenty years freelancing. The […]