re terminal colours: I used to really struggle with setting nice colours in the terminal but I started using https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell (+ base16-vim for vim) a few years back and it really solved almost all of my issues. I've been using solarized light.
Basically it just prints out a bunch of escape codes when my shell starts up, which I guess tells the terminal what to use for “black", "white”, "red", blue", etc.
I find it chooses better colours than the iTerm solarized theme for instance
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