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Automate your pool or hot tub with Home Assistant and ESPHome sensors

Monitor pool or hot tub temperature, pH, and ORP with waterproof ESPHome sensors on ESP32 for under $80. Home Assistant alerts and calibration.

CSS subgrid reaches 92% baseline: align cards natively

CSS subgrid lets nested grids inherit parent tracks, so card titles, descriptions, and buttons align perfectly without JavaScript height calculations.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash: 76% on Terminal-Bench, 4x faster output

Gemini 3.5 Flash launched May 19, 2026 with 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 4x faster output. See benchmarks, availability, and when Pro arrives.

Is the StarFive VisionFive 2 the best RISC-V SBC for developers?

StarFive VisionFive 2 brings RISC-V development within reach: JH7110 quad-core, Vulkan GPU, Debian 13, NVMe, and Raspberry Pi GPIO compatibility.

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Cursor Composer 2.5 vs Composer 2: what actually changed

Cursor Composer 2.5 runs on the same Kimi K2.5 base as Composer 2 but trains on 25x more synthetic tasks. The real delta, the pricing, the limits.

NATS JetStream vs Kafka: simpler ops, sub-millisecond latency

NATS JetStream gives Python microservices durable streams, exactly-once delivery, and sub-millisecond latency. One small binary, no Kafka sprawl.