Two which come to mind -

Context: Where I work at, we are dealt macs - I took a 16" macbook pro w/ i9-9980HK @ 2.4GHz,
64GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD (the built-in AP1024N);
Sadly, the performance does not match the impressive specs - it throttles endlessly,
docker on mac is still pretty bad and even running Goland over our 130 go-module monorepo is just plain slow.

I've tackled this on two fronts:
1. Offloading the deployment of our components to an arch machine w/ an extremely fast SSD
hosted in a relatively close datacenter; I've bootstrapped k8s w/ kubeadm, metal-lb[1]
and hostpath-provisioner[2] for a smooth local-k8s experience.
2. Offloading the IDE (read: compilation & indexing) - all sources now reside on said arch machine;
I'm using jetbrains' projector project[3] & mutagen[4] as a continuous rsync-like solution.

My mac now only runs Emacs, the projector client, a terminal and slack; this makes working on it tolerable.


And another, albeit silly one - I find myself executing long running commands on my mac and going afk at times,
I'm now &&-ing such commands to a small beep function that notifies me audibly when it's done;



[1] https://github.com/metallb/metallb
[2] https://github.com/torchbox/k8s-hostpath-provisioner
[3] https://github.com/JetBrains/projector-server
[4] https://github.com/mutagen-io/mutagen