Life is too short for a slow terminal
Summary
Developers who spend most of their day in the terminal can gain noticeable speed by trimming shell frameworks, caching completions, and lazy-loading tools. The author demonstrates practical, minimal dotfiles, non-blocking prompts (pure), and measured startup/perf techniques (time, hyperfine, zprof). The post serves as a how-to guide for speeding up local development environments and shares open source resources.