"Let's Encrypt is a golden example of how creating inalienable good is possible with the right approach and the right values. And while I'm excited about the work Let's Encrypt has done, I am eager to see their work continue to keep up with the growing Web; to sustain encryption for everybody at Internet scale. To do so is going to take more than me—it's going to take a community of people committed to this work. I am confident Let's Encrypt is a project that deserves all of our support, in ways both large and small." https://letsencrypt.org/2025/03/18/community-of-funders/
Ten Years of Let's Encrypt: Announcing support from Jeff Atwood

As we touched on in our first blog post highlighting ten years of Let’s Encrypt: Just as remarkable to us as the technical innovations behind proliferating TLS at scale is, so too is the sustained generosity we have benefited from throughout our first decade. With that sense of gratitude top of mind, we are proud to announce a contribution of $1,000,000 from Jeff Atwood. Jeff has been a longtime supporter of our work, beginning many years ago with Discourse providing our community forum pro bono; something Discourse still provides to this day.

@codinghorror

i don't agree that let's encrypt is good, at least not the way google and the eff promote it and treat https as a requirement as if they were the platform vendor of the web. the great thing about the web is that there is no platform vendor.

they premise their pitch on the idea that https is always good, but for sites that predate the broad adoption of https, it's not only unlikely someone is around to adapt the site, but it might be such a big job that it's impossible.

@codinghorror

that's the problem when big companies drive the evolution of a platform. they have no concept of how it has been used, they're like the DOGE kiddies in DC, just wrecking things because they can.

more here.

https://this.how/googleAndHttp

Google and HTTP

Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules.