Slack notifications via ntfy.sh

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I've been trying to not be too attached to my phone. Over the last couple of years, I've dropped Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts (clearly, there's a pattern). Every time I have Slack on it, I end up treating it like an infinite feed too, so I try not to have it on my phone either.

What's challenging is I'm also on-call for everything. While we have PagerDuty setup for automated incident creation via signals, not everything is covered. So when I get @-mentioned, I'd like to know right away.

Fortunately, it looks like a wonderful open-source service exists to help do just that: https://ntfy.sh/. Between that and Claude Code, I now have an 80 line script to do exactly what I need: when I'm @-mentioned in our alerts channel, I am notified on my phone. I rarely go anywhere without my laptop, so it's really easy to jump right on as needed.

Anyway it's 80 lines long. You can find the gist here, and run it wherever your heart desires.