focus on your paycheck, it's the one single thing you take home with you, not the "whatever you are building this week".
Then save some for the winter days to come, and spend the rest on your vices and pleasures. It's my sure cure for work-related depression
since i have a full jetbrains subscription ( for many years ) i use the DataGrip db client, and it serves me very well...
before that ( looong before ) i used AquaDataStudio, and it was very nice too although not cheap at all.
my current go-to stack for webdev is svelte on the frontend with a golang api on postgres database. Deploy behind an openresty ( nginx's fork ) server.
Usually quite performant, easy on cloud resources and even fun to work with... ( also "modern" enough so i would not have to explain to others what a perl-cgi script is )
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