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 …

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 …

Another year down!

I've updated the py3progress site with the whole of 2014, and what we have so far in 2015. I'll post a review of the last year like I have before later.

I'm at linux.conf.au this week learning lots. I'll have my Begg Digital hat on (when outside).

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 …