Vim has its own plugin system that can provide all of the things on your list. Most people used to use a plugin manager like vim-plug or pathogen, but plugins can also be installed manually.

With vim 8 there is built in plugin management. Just open the editor and type

:help packages

Plugins (including the plugin managers which are plugins themselves) get installed in your user’s home directory, so you can install them yourself without affecting other users or involving the sysadmins who are giving you pushback on installing other applications system-wide.

Israel’s record on that one is going to be tough to beat.

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This sounds like a perfect case for automation - a bot could be creating the posts and only require human intervention when something goes wrong.

Congratulations on your own strip, by the way! Burnout is real, and good for you to be recognizing it and taking action to prioritize.