I often use sendmail to notify me of the progress of long running scripts, or when they have finished or errored. I have had some trouble recently with our internal mail server, so I wanted to try an alternative method of getting notifications. nfty is an HTTP-based service that allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop using a REST API. I will try using it from MATLAB.
Features covered in this code-along style video include:
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