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Yes, you can build a smart pet feeder for under $25. It uses an ESP32, a continuous rotation servo, and a 3D-printed auger, driven by ESPHome and Home Assistant . You get scheduled meals, set portion sizes, a “feed now” button on your phone, and a full feeding log. Commercial feeders like PetSafe ($100 to $150) and PETLIBRO ($65 to $160) charge a premium for the same features. This guide covers the hardware, wiring, firmware, and safety steps that make the build reliable.

Drop @view-transition { navigation: auto; } into your stylesheet. Modern browsers will then cross-fade between same-origin page loads on their own. No SPA router, no fetch() interception, no JS framework needed. Add view-transition-name to shared elements like hero images, headings, or nav bars, and the browser morphs them between separate HTML documents. This works today in Chrome 126+, Edge 126+, and Safari 18.2+. Firefox support lands through the Interop 2026 push.

Just is the best general command runner for most new projects in 2026. It has Make-like syntax without the tab headaches. It works across Linux, macOS, and Windows. It stays out of your way as a command runner, not a build system. Task wins if your team prefers YAML and you want built-in file watching. Make is still right when you have real file-based compile dependencies or a Makefile that works fine.

Home Assistant pulls hourly spot prices through the Tibber integration or the Nordpool HACS add-on. It then schedules EV chargers, water heaters, heat pumps, and dishwashers during the cheapest hours. On a 2026 Nordic tariff with 3-8x daily price swings, shifting 10-15 kWh of flexible load each day cuts the bill by 20-40% with no comfort cost.

Why Dynamic Pricing Pays Off in 2026

The Nordpool day-ahead auction closes around noon CET. By 13:00, prices for all 24 hours of the next day are out for every bidding zone. That window is exactly what Home Assistant needs: a once-a-day drop of 24 hourly prices that your automations can plan against overnight.

Combine HTMX (version 2.0.4, about 14KB gzipped) with Alpine.js (version 3.15.9, about 17KB gzipped). You get a full interactive web stack for 31KB total. No Webpack. No Vite. No Node.js. No build step. Drop two <script> tags in your HTML, sprinkle a few attributes on your markup, and let any backend serve HTML fragments. That’s the whole setup.

The split is clean. HTMX drives server-side partial updates. Alpine.js covers light client reactivity. The server returns HTML, not JSON. The browser swaps it into the page. Alpine.js attributes in the markup handle toggles, dropdowns, and modals. No compile step sits between you and your running app.

Five open source vector databases are worth a shortlist in 2026. Qdrant is Rust-based and wins on single-node latency and filtered ANN. Milvus 2.5 is the billion-scale pick with disk and GPU indexes. Weaviate bundles hybrid search and generative modules. Chroma is the simplest Python option for prototypes and agent memory. pgvector 0.8 is the smart bet when Postgres already runs your data. LanceDB earns a mention for multimodal, read-heavy work on S3. The right pick depends on where your data sits, how big the index gets, and whether you want strict p95 latency or built-in RAG glue.