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Are there any nice cross-platform ways to trigger a notification from a terminal? I've been using https://pushover.net/ but you need to use a browser and it's noticeably slower than the native options. (Pushover is great for mobile notifications though.)

Today I learnt about crossterm, a Rust crate for interacting with terminals in a cross-platform way: https://docs.rs/crossterm/latest/crossterm/ It handles things like is_tty() and terminal::size(), which are hard to support correctly in both Linux and Windows. I might port difftastic.

Today I learnt that GitHub Release download counts are publicly available! This is a really helpful way of seeing what proportion of users are on each platform.