Links

Make it Yourself

makeityourself.org

Across the world creative people are making high quality things of all kinds and sharing their work freely with all of humanity.

Make it Yourself is a digital book that showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself.

Celebrating Ten Years of Encrypting the Web with Let’s Encrypt

eff.org

The most important measure of Let’s Encrypt’s and Certbot’s successes is how much of people’s daily web browsing uses HTTPS. According to Firefox data, 78% of pages loaded use HTTPS. That’s tremendously improved from 27% in 2013 when Let’s Encrypt was founded. There’s still a lot of work to be done to get to 100%.

Nice to actually reflect on this statistic and realize how much progress has been made towards web privacy.

What Pipes is

pipes.digital

Pipes is a spiritual successor to Yahoo! Pipes, but if you did not know that site, you can think of Pipes as a visual programing editor specialized on feeds, or a visual shell, or simply as a glorified feed configurator.