[kaushalmodi]

This post felt like a deja vu, because I had read this earlier back in Nov 2017 :). The HN mods should add the 2017 year to the title. That said, for people who haven't read this post earlier, this post shares some great tips! I like the one about deferring packages using `use-package`.

Because this is an old post, references like Spacemacs are now quite dated. Folks prefer Doom Emacs nowadays (though I don't use either of them).