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Once you’re in the habit of kicking off a long task and walking away, you end up wiring up a notification. And once you have one, the same thought always follows: “This would be nicer on Slack.” Email is quiet and it sticks around, but it’s slow. If you keep Slack open all day, having alerts land in one window you already watch beats digging through your inbox. If you want your phone to buzz the instant something finishes, Telegram is faster. It’s not just a matter of taste, either — if your team already lives in a channel, that’s where the notification belongs. ...

Ever sent off a long task, gone to do something else, and come back to the terminal an hour later only to find it finished thirty minutes earlier? Or the opposite — checking the window every five minutes and getting nothing else done? For me there was one more wrinkle on top of that: when the task produces a file. A markdown writeup of some research, an extracted CSV, a report I asked for. If it finished while I was away, there was no good way to check it from my phone. SSH in and cat the file, and every line break is mangled, you’re scrolling with your thumb, and if there’s a table in there, forget reading it at all. ...