My friend Leo spent three months coding a game for a jam. He won a small prize but his back is still messed up from the bad chair. He says the trophy just collects dust now.

Hold up, you're saving money but wasting hours. Router sleds are painfully slow and make a huge mess with all that sawdust. For flattening one big slab, maybe, but for regular work? A used lunchbox planer gets you done in minutes, not days.

My "unique 16-character mess" is now just me yelling at my phone for the wrong password.

Sounds super limiting to me. Clients usually want something unique, not the same three colors every time.

Oh man, that dark gray bump is such a real fix! I had the same thing with my code editor. I kept the main background at #1A1A1A but made my sidebar a touch lighter, like #242424. That tiny bit of contrast helps my eyes find different areas without any strain. It feels way less like staring into a void for hours.