pizone – Raspberry Pi based Nintendo Zone access point

Nice project from Mike Chambers; pizone creates a customer Nintendo Zone access point, allowing you to get Spot and Street Passes from people around the world. You’re usually restricted to those you come within close physical contact with (along with your 3DS hardware of course).

Time to acquire some more Mii hats and outfits 🙂

Let’s Encrypt offering free encryption

Encryption is increasingly an important and relevant topic when it comes to web development (security, ServiceWorker-powered offline pages, etc), but the costs involved make it prohibitive to devs wanting to dip their toes in the subject. Let’s Encrypt looks to offer a free service which should be a big help to everyone in making the web more secure but also more available when stuck in a tunnel somewhere without wifi.

Tim Kadlec discusses it in his “Taking Let’s Encrypt for a Spin” article.