notify

Overview ¶

Package notify raises a desktop notification through whatever the machine already has.

It shells out — notify-send on Linux and the BSDs, osascript on macOS, PowerShell's toast on Windows — and brings no dependency of its own. A notification library would mean cgo or a Windows API binding, and this tool ships as one static binary with no runtime dependency; a feature that convenient is not worth that.

Every failure is silent by design. There is no notifier in a container, over ssh, or on a headless CI machine, and a board that printed a warning every time it could not pop up a bubble would be worse than one that quietly does not.