Thank you for this walkthrough. These posts are great inspiration for me. If only I had 8 more hours in the day to work on my hobby projects!

Regarding AI and coding I finally found something that works for me. I have been somewhat of a luddite on the topic, but so many times I just found that it took me longer to use ChatGPT to code something than to just do it myself. Also, it was often just wrong. I know prompt engineering is a skill, but whatever.
Enter Github Copilot. I know its not new or anything, but I love the autocomplete it provides. This is finally something that saves me time. I use it in VS code but I think it can be used in other IDE's too. Definitely recommend trying it.