I use Neovim + kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/) and the performance is phenomenal. Everything is instant. kitty also has a built-in robust layout system so I ended up ditching tmux entirely for it.
Shameless plug but I wrote an app[1] with the same idea of anti-productivity in mind. Having read the book, the idea of 4000 weeks in your life can be scary but also inspiring.
Been building a tool[1] to replace my usage of Evernote. I agree that caring about the product and its vision is the only way to keep the quality and attention to detail afloat.
It lets you pick and choose from many packs (Feather included) and if you’re careful with your selections you can meet pretty much all needs in a cohesive way. Until you can afford an in house designer :P
I had a small project hosted in Heroku. After the whole debacle with security I wanted to get ahead of any more potential disruptions and migrated over to AWS EC2 + RDS + Dokku. Being my first time with AWS, I thought it was more straightforward than I thought. RDS seemed like a nice early optimization too (and also mimics how Heroku handles Databases normally by having a separate server for them off the get-go).