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philiprion Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time

Hydrogen is a possibility. Some serious investigation are underway.

https://www.aemc.gov.au/hydrogen-new-australian-manufacturin...

philiprion Google CA Root Inclusion Request

Heroku’s integration with Let’s Encrypt is pretty seamless (been using it for some hobby projects).

philiprion Security Begins at the Home Router

I'm actually pretty happy with my Netgear Velop mesh system. I had a Netgear Nighthawk X8, but when I moved it was great for the new house. The Velop mesh has been seamless.

philiprion Performance Improvements in .NET Core

You can easily deploy them to GCP's AppEngine Flexible with a simple dockerfile. It's pretty close to the 'git push heroku master' experience.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/how-to-use-Dock...

philiprion World War II Battle When Americans and Germans Fought Together (2013)

I think I read about this in Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (written ~50 years ago) .... so hardly a first telling of the story.