I've listened to Project Hail Mary, even though the story is not that much complex and is predictable at times, the audiobook experience is the best I've had, I have been looking at similar audiobooks but couldn't find any
You should check out the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
The audiobook for the most recent one released and immediately became the best selling audiobook in the world. The talent of Jeff Hayes and Soundbooth Theater have ruined other audiobooks for me.
I've considered using my cheap projector as a second monitor, however its fan is so noise I don't think I would endure much time, and even though the resolution is not bad I still feel it adds unnecessary strain focusing to read/write
The terminal is iTerm2, but the basic Mac terminal or common Linux ones can do opacity too. Didn't go out of my way to set up auto-reload, so idk how to do it in general, but the default create-react-app dev setup does it.