Meet random people from your organization for a coffee with macarons or for a quick video call. Get to know your colleagues better and maybe even make new (work) friends.
🧁 Quick and Easy
Just add the Macarons app to a Slack channel and it will automatically pair off random members for (virtual) coffees.
🎰 Control the Odds
For each channel you can control how often and when chat lotteries happen, as well as how many people should be matched together.
🧊 Ice Breakers
Let Macarons get conversations started with predefined ice breakers or set your own custom topics for each round.
🏖 Take a skip day
Independent of a channels meeting interval, each user can always individually pause their participation or decide to only take part every other time.
Based on our record, tmate seems to be a lot more popular than Macarons. While we know about 19 links to tmate, we've tracked only 1 mention of Macarons. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
It took us a few months (I think it was 4) but now we released Macarons. After adding Macarons to the workspace you have to invite it to a channel and then can configure how often people of that channel are matched. Additionally you can specify how big the match groups should be and everyone participating can adjust their participation rate. That's basically it. Since Macarons is not over-boarded with features we... Source: about 2 years ago
Have you tried https://tmate.io/ ? It's a fork of tmux that, on startup, gives you web links and ssh connection strings to connect to the session. For each connection method you get one adress for read-only access and one for normal access. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago
$ apt-cache show tmate [...] Homepage: http://tmate.io/ Description-en: terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing tmate provides an instant pairing solution, allowing you to share a terminal with one or several teammates. Together with a voice call, it's almost like pairing in person. The terminal sharing works by using SSH connections to backend servers maintained by tmate upstream developers;... Source: over 1 year ago
See also the venerable tmate - https://tmate.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Thanks for this. Related: https://tmate.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Https://tmate.io/ works for this scenario, even though it can create some issues with truecolor. Source: over 1 year ago
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