Ah, I like yours better for GitHub specifically, but for any website, my .bashrc got this as its latest addition tonight:<p><pre><code>  # watch for a website to come back online
  # example: github down? do `mashf5 github.com`
  function mashf5() {
      watch -d -n 5 &quot;curl --head --silent --location $1 | grep &#x27;^HTTP&#x2F;&#x27;&quot;
  }</code></pre>