I used a friend's Chrome Pixel exclusively for the last week, as I was in between work laptops. I wanted to make some changes to an old App Engine app, and inst

I used a friend's Chrome Pixel exclusively for the last week, as I was in between work laptops. I wanted to make some changes to an old App Engine app, and instead of figuring out how to dual boot it and all that, I decided to try Nitrous. I was able to clone the repo, get my build tools running with Node and Ruby (handlebars, compass), run a local App Engine server and preview it, deploy the changes to App Engine, and push the changes back to the repo. The neat thing about using Nitrous is that I could theoretically work on that app from any machine now, and not have to set up a bunch of tools that I don't use otherwise. So, I might keep trying to use it for my little side apps, the ones that I work on once a year and don't necessarily have an environment set up for. They were also super helpful on Twitter, on a Sunday.