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I consistently get awesome new songs from Pandora.

This is really cool! I really want to make something like this as well. I have all the necessary components; it's just a matter of making it. I was just going to make it a music visualizer, but your weather and stock information is really interesting.

I actually recently finished making an automatic lock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9hKzVNNs0

I kept forgetting my keys at work, so I automated my lock. You can see it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9hKzVNNs0

Nuclear power generation is also being used, you just don't hear about it much. You can see California's power supply by fuel here: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx

Right now it's around 10%, but it's different for different regions.

You can't "care about ethics" if you care about something like taste more. That's like saying you care about the ethics of not stealing, but you care about having an expensive stolen thing more. You just don't care about the ethics.

I agree. I think the esp8266 is an awesome platform.

I started out with a board from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2471

I later switched to this one for cost savings: https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-Doit-NodeMcu-Lua-ESP8266-...

If you think about it, eating meat is really a terrible thing to do. Most people who eat meat would never be able to kill an animal, I suspect. I know I wouldn't. And the conditions in which the poor animals are kept make it a billion times worse. That's the thought that made me switch to being a vegetarian after eating meat my whole life.

I find it much easier to use Google Cloud Platform compared to AWS. That's why I use it over AWS.

Just a warning: this will make your machine unusable by opening a bunch of pop-ups, download images, and playing annoying audio while flashing the screen.

It's such a shame that Pandora didn't do anything with rdio.com. Rdio was the best music service I've ever used. Not only was the music high quality, but the UI was very intuitive on all devices, and it also had cool features like if you're playing Rdio on your laptop, you could use your phone as a remote control.

It doesn't have to be quickly. It's very convenient. Just touch the volume or brightness button and keep holding, then just move your finger left or right to change the value.

If you use something like Google Firebase, they have a service specifically for this kind of thing. https://firebase.google.com/products/remote-config/

Sweet!