Don't forget, it is YOUR choice to have Slack open. Nobody is forcing you to. It might be an unspoken rule to do so, but I value productivity more. In the event someone has something important to say (rarely the case), come up or call me (or PM me on IRC).
30 usd a hour is not a fair wage for a programmer (considering 10 hours a week, 40 hours would be a different story) - you need to increase it. Please note your employer benefits from having an employee with decent living conditions. He knows, you know. If he's not willing to increase either your hours or rate I suggest to find something new.
Because your HTML generating AI framework would not be able to deal with Mandy from upper management that wants that one button to have a rounded edge in the upper right corner just like the button she saw on Bloomberg, her favorite website, they make a ton of money so there should be no reason Mandy can't have a button with a rounded edge in the upper right corner, except that your framework can't deal with questionable input from humans at which point you will try to override it with CSS and another thing and another thing and before you know it you'll have a colleague come up to your desk complaining about the fact the codebase has 4 years worth of overriding CSS spaghetti and wondering if switching to ThatOneFramework^tm he read about on hackernews the other day will solve the issue of backend/frontend integration.
I'm doing exactly that right now. Hired for a decent salary - but quiting.
I don't know what ill be doing in 6 months. I don't have a financial buffer. This is scary but it fits my hippie-like personality. Not to say you should not have anything lined up. You also should not mind 60-80 hour work-weeks or dealing with stressful situations. These are personality traits that provide a good foundation that allow you to be independent.
If the need is there, I am certain I can trust on my network (of friends & ex-colleagues) and my own skills to help me get a job.
Without a family to provide for, radical decisions like these are easier. Live a little. Jump into to unknown. And for future replies on this comment pointing out that my suggestion is a downright dangerous; I concur.
Have you heard of ZomboDB? It aims to provide the best of both worlds; transactions and elasticsearch. I've been using it on my own pet project and am very happy that I only have to care about dealing with Postgres (the ES part goes automatically).
The amount is much higher as I have only tried a limited amount of keywords. There are many servers that have complete backups of the Windows folder 'My Documents' for example. Combined, I'd say at least half of it is not meant to be public, thus sensitive.
It is not my responsibility to email every single person running a sensitive public FTP server. It is my responsibility to educate those that have the power to positively influence the situation more than I ever could - ISPs.