diff --git a/doom/init.el b/doom/init.el
index f3cad72..c6b303b 100644
--- a/doom/init.el
+++ b/doom/init.el
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
        :tools
        ;;ansible
        ;;debugger          ; FIXME stepping through code, to help you add bugs
-       ;;direnv
+       direnv
        docker
        ;;editorconfig      ; let someone else argue about tabs vs spaces
        ;;ein               ; tame Jupyter notebooks with emacs
diff --git a/gitignore-global b/gitignore-global
index 3118d4b..aff68bc 100644
--- a/gitignore-global
+++ b/gitignore-global
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ compile_commands.json
 *.egg-info
 .envrc
 .vscode
+.direnv