Stupid simple GitHub desktop notifications! Requires cURL, jq, and notify-send.

gh-notify

#!/bin/bash

USER='Your username, Duh.'
TOKEN='An access token that has access to notifications, make one here: https://github.com/settings/tokens'
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
API_URL=https://api.github.com

date=
while sleep 30; do
    curl -u $USER:$TOKEN $API_URL/notifications?since=$date |\
        jq -r 'map("\(.subject.title) \(.repository.full_name)") | .[]' |\
        xargs -n1 -d '\n' notify-send -i $DIR/octocat.png
    date=$(date +%FT%T)
done