Tired of staring at GitHub Copilot? I built an extension to ping my smart watch when it's done

We all know the feeling. You give GitHub Copilot a huge task, like a massive multi-file edit, and then you just sit there waiting. Sometimes, tasks I thought would take a long time finished in 30 s...

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Tired of staring at GitHub Copilot? I built an extension to ping my smart watch when it's done

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We all know the feeling. You give GitHub Copilot a huge task, like a massive multi-file edit, and then you just sit there waiting. Sometimes, tasks I thought would take a long time finished in 30 seconds. Other times, I would walk away to get a coffee, only to come back and realize Copilot had been waiting for my terminal input the whole time. It was super frustrating because all that waiting time was totally wasted. I need more FREEDOOOOOM! I started looking into how I could get live notifications sent directly to my phone (and my smart watch) so I could actually step away from my desk. While looking around, I noticed that the GitHub Copilot Chat logs are visible in the Output section. It turns out Copilot logs exactly when a tool loop starts and stops. I realized I could just write a script to watch those local files. And I discovered ntfy. It is an amazing open source tool that lets you send push notifications to your phone using a simple HTTP POST request. It was exactly what I nee