Good insights - thanks! I agree if you have a solid test suite you don't really need to worry about working directly on main. I think I'm probably in a similar boat to you - PR bigger features, and do small updates directly on main.

Would you care at all how your progress compares to other projects, in terms of time-to-release / failure rates etc, if that info were available?

Interesting - does that provide any kind of DORA stats?

Sounds interesting - give me a shout if you want a beta tester.

Another vote for direnv 👆only in development though - on production I usually use a PaaS (Heroku, Netlify etc).

OmniGraffle (www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle) is great if you're on MacOS.