Done Since 2018-10-14

On the whole not a bad week. Pretty good week? Anyway. The main achievement was finding what to me was a very obscure bug in my hyperviewer graphics demo. In retrospect it shouldn't have been that obscure; the fact that it took me a week to find was probably because I'm too used to using strongly-typed languages. Hint: when is x+1 not equal to 1+x? (Answer under the cut, in Monday's notes.)

The other thing I did this week (I only did two things? Sad.) was attend a workshop at the Seattle office of SCORE: "Growing a Consulting Business", presented by John Martinka. I spent a lot of the time feeling very much like a fish out of water, but I had a couple of encouraging conversations during the breaks that made me think that maybe I do have expertise that companies would pay for. Probably not big companies, but small businesses. Maybe. The biggest problem is my almost total lack of self-confidence.

It may be too late to help with my current financial crunch.

It was also given at 8:15am in downtown Seattle, which made for a l o n g day. Fortunately, I haven't been sleeping all that well lately (c.f. previous paragraph), so I was able to leave a little before 6am and get there on time. It does say something about the possibility of commuting. I could do it once a week if I had to, though.

One of the highlights of this week's linkspam is "How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language", which includes a reference to Kanef's song about it, The Eternal Flame. More Lisp links in Wednesday's notes.

This week's security links include some updates on the Facebook hack, plus this page in FB's help: scroll down to see if your account was affected. Mine wasn't, but...

( Notes & links, as usual )