Let's Encrypt

Security and privacy on the internet is generally achieved using public key cryptography, and SSL or TLS. Getting a public key (also called a certificate) signed by a trusted source has been a fairly expensive exercise for small company, hobbyists, and open source projects. More recently, public knowledge of mass internet servalience has pushed for more security of web traffic (in particular). 


Enter Let's Encrypt. It is a certificate …

Django Roadmap

I haven't been very good at keeping up with blogging. I hope to do better this year.

In June last year (2015), the Django project released their roadmap of development for the next couple of years. It includes details such as when the next releases are due and the new versioning scheme with clearer long term support (LTS) version numbers. One of the most surprising things to me was the …

New design and new URL

So after thinking about it, I have purchased a new domain, http://begg.digital/. There have been many, many new top level domains launched recently.

I've also taken the opportunity to refresh the Begg Digital website as well. There is now a link to the various tools I've created to help the Python Community, and there is some more pages to come soon too. The underlying code got a significant upgrade …