Brighton Digital Freelancers
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 [ ] The post Fractional work, marketing affected by AI and more,…
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 [ ] The post Meeting notes from the 29th July 2026 appeared first on Brighton Farm .
On the 22nd July, nine freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk all things freelancing and tech. A new freelancer joined us for the first time, so we had plenty of conversations around freelancing standards. This is some of what we talked about: Government Digital Services is moving to [ ] The post Freelancing basics, interesting groups in Brighton more notes from 22nd…
On the 8th July, twelve freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar in Brighton to talk all things freelancing and tech. Another heatwave had kicked in, but things weren t as bad as a couple of weeks ago. Is the market picking up? Losing a large client Working in heatwave v3 When [ ] The post Market getting better, SFTP and a new app notes from 8th July 2026 appeared first on…
On the 1st July, twelve freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk freelancing, finding clients, and a lot of random stuff. This is some of the topics covered: Net connections have improved massively over time Contracts Getting the IT set up for companies Finding work through forums Finding [ ] The post Notes from our freelancers meet up on 1st July 2026…
On an extremely hot Wednesday 24th June, ten freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to swap notes about surviving the heat, and the occasional tip about freelancing. This is some of what we talked about: Heat heat heat (33°c in the pub garden when we were first there) Under-16s being [ ] The post The hottest Farm meet so far was 24th June 2026 appeared first on Brighton Farm…
On the 17th June, twelve freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk all things tech, self employment and a fair amount of random nonsense. This was the evening of the first England game in the (men s) World Cup 2026, so I was surprised so many people came along. [ ] The post AI, WordPress hacks and island life notes from 17th June 2026 appeared first on Brighton…
On the 10th June, eight freelancers got together in the Battle of Trafalgar to swap notes on everything from two factor authentication to handling people trying to get a rise out of you for their videos. Although it was a lower turnout than usual, this was the funniest meet we ve had for a while, although [ ] The post Being negged by your car, 2FA woes and more from our freelancers meet on 10th…