desk

I'd like to offer https://github.com/jamesob/desk as an alternative to direnv. It's useful for also jumping to the project directory and doing other things like opening an editor.

You agree that Docker is "so slow" and point to its benefits for preventing differences between dev and prod. But you don't mention what those differences are. What are they? I also don't see why you'd use a CI pipeline for simple projects where you are typically the only developer. Run tests locally, if everything is fine push to prod. I use git with a small script to roll out to production. When I execute the script on the server, it stops all services, pulls the latest code from Git, applies Django migrations, and starts everything up again. I use desk [1] to make this as simple as a single `release` command in my local shell. [1]: https://github.com/jamesob/desk

Plug: The blog of my file manager [1]. I share my experiences developing a cross-platform app with PyQt. For instance: * how Google Chrome's auto-update technology works [2] * which GUI technology to pick if you find Electron too slow [3] * a video of the release process of my app [4], using the fabulous `desk` tool [5] [1]: https://fman.io/blog [2]: https://fman.io/blog/google-omaha-tutorial/ [3]: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-... [4]: https://fman.io/blog/live-coding-video-of-fman/ [5]: https://github.com/jamesob/desk

This looks like it scratches the same itch (in GUI land) that Desk[1] scratches (in terminal land). [1] https://github.com/jamesob/desk