Let’s Encrypt aims to bring web encryption to all sites for free

What is Let’s Encrypt?
Basically, it’s a way to get a quick x509 certificate for your server without knowing much about what is a x509 certificate:

Let’s Encrypt Overview – http://www.cryptologie.net/article/274/lets-encrypt-overview/

If this works out it will go skiing way to securing all web traffic. The Let’s Encrypt site is at https://letsencrypt.org/ and the code is open source at https://github.com/letsencrypt.

Build nginx with Google PageSpeed module for better performance

This tutorials explains how to build nginx with the latest version of the nginx_pagespeed module on Debian Jessie. The PageSpeed module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times.

How to build nginx with Google PageSpeed module on Debian 8 (Jessie) https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/nginx-with-ngx_pagespeed-on-debian-8-jessie/

Seems like an interesting weekend project.