[shazeubaa]

The timing of this post is amazing me. Just an hour ago I was doing an internet search for how to host or participate in screen sharing while working on pet hobby projects. My thinking was “coding a side project on your own can get lonesome and stall. Wouldn’t it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive.”

[skbdpup]

I've been using focusmate.com for a few weeks now. You make an appointment to pair with another random user for a 50 minute work session. You just say hi and get to work each on your own thing. It's not dev-specific so it's kind of pointless to get into what you're working on. But just having an appointment and saying hi to someone has helped me do more than I expected.

[kolanos]

Sounds like Twitch for devs.

[shazeubaa]

Right. But instead of one presenter with viewers its many to many.

[kolanos]

One concern I would have with this is secrets handling. Say I'm screen sharing my development environment and I come across a secret, I would want my screen share service to be able to detect a secret is on screen and to either block it out or just cut off the screen share entirely until it is no longer on screen. This likely isn't foolproof, so having a hotkey to pause/unpause screen share when I know I'm about to deal with secrets would be useful as well.

[shazeubaa]

That's a good idea. Of course, sharing your screen at all would be optional in the "Let's have some company while we're working on stuff" friendly circle of folks.