Cloud computing security, Game development, and Digital art
Excellent article on how to set up Google Analytics, including the extra bits and pieces you need to reconstruct click-streams and do queries on specific users:
https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-google-analytics-setup-i-use-on-every-site-i-build/
Great summary from John Carmack on how to avoid aliasing in computer graphics, with special emphasis on VR. I think his discussion of texture edge clamping problems is more easily summaried as “just use premultiplied alpha.” (see Jim Blinn’s Dirty Pixels for details).
New NIST standards disallow the use of VoIP-based phone numbers for SMS two-factor authentication. Argh, if I can’t use my Google Voice number, how can I receive SMS codes overseas without paying exorbitant telco roaming charges? I don’t consider a mobile-OS 2FA app to be a reliable substitute.