Assuming personal projects... Use cheap and simple PAAS integrations. Don't write documentation on a personal project. Only test the complex stuff that touches a lot of your app, and enjoy the new ways it challenges you to conceptualize. 100% test coverage is foolish. Don't "test like the TSA." Actually, don't even write tests if your app is simple.

Code however you want. Don't let programmers who pose as authorities fool you into thinking you're 'doing it wrong', that kills all the joy in programming. As long as you're thinking through things and it works, and especially if you're actually enjoying it, you're most certainly doing it right.

Deployment scripts, documentation, and unit tests can be fun too - the problem is that our attention is usually (rightly) on the problem we're solving, and so all the boring stuff feels like a distraction. If you really delved deeply into how to make deployment & testing as elegant as possible, there's ample room for creativity there.