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

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.

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

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.

CSS subgrid reaches 92% baseline: align cards natively

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.

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

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

NATS JetStream gives Python microservices durable streams and exactly-once delivery at sub-millisecond latency from one binary instead of a Kafka cluster.

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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.

Blender MCP: control Blender with Claude AI through natural language

Blender MCP: control Blender with Claude AI through natural language

Blender MCP wires Claude into Blender's Python API. Create geometry, apply materials, fetch assets, and generate meshes from natural-language prompts.

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