Thank you for sharing, I appreciate the emphasis on local speed and privacy. As a current user of Hex (https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex), which has similar goals, what are your thoughts on how they compare?

The complexity is what gets you. One of AWS's favorite situations is

1) Senior engineer starts on AWS

2) Senior engineer leaves because our industry does not value longevity or loyalty at all whatsoever (not saying it should, just observing that it doesn't)

3) New engineer comes in and panics

4) Ends up using a "managed service" to relieve the panic

5) New engineer leaves

6) Second new engineer comes in and not only panics but outright needs help

7) Paired with some "certified AWS partner" who claims to help "reduce cost" but who actually gets a kickback from the extra spend they induce (usually 10% if I'm not mistaken)

Calling it it ransomware is obviously hyperbolic but there are definitely some parallels one could draw

On top of it all, AWS pricing is about to massively go up due to the RAM price increase. There's no way it can't since AWS is over half of Amazon's profit while only around 15% of its revenue.

Here's what I do (shameless plug): https://blog.denv.it/posts/im-happy-engineer-now/

This allows you to use Claude Code from your mobile device, in a safe environment (restricted Kubernetes pod)

Quite a few options on https://serversearcher.com that sell in US/CA.

Clouvider is available in alot of US DCs, 4GB ram/2cpu/80GB NVME and a 10Gb port for like $6 a month.

I have ADHD and hence am generally quite interested in apps in this space.

Maybe it's just me but I found the app controls to be way too small, too many onboarding walk through steps and way too much information density in the Task screen.

Progress, Highlight, Due Date, different lists - it's a lot.

It seems to me you wanted to pack a punch, but it's so dense and so many steps involved that it falls into the productivity fallacy for me: It's increasing my executive disfunction and makes it harder and cumbersome to add tasks instead of reducing it.

One app that really works for me, does one thing and does it well is for example Due: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/due-erinnerungen-timer/id39001...

Not affiliated in any way with the app or it's creator.

When it comes to apps like these, less is more for me.

400 is a bit extreme, it is as low as my clock will go. But I often go down to 1200 or 800.

I have an OLED screen and mostly use black background terminals, so I can get some pretty decent battery life out of it, especially at night when I dim the screen.

Dim/red shift/slow CPU is a nice low-distraction night time mode IMO.

Plus it is keeps my palms comfortable even if I accidentally run a computationally intensive code.