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I slowly refine the process and the product, a little each day.
I have a degree in engineering and I rarely if ever use what I learned. Everything I use is backed by core CS, but us consumers needn't even really know about that. Is the majority of web development like this? Or am I caught in an anomaly?
On top of that, these web-apps we put up are so fragile. Hot one year, archived the next. What fields are more long lasting? Where is the important work being done?
..please don't say blockchain.
Right now I use Signal which is great but it's missing a lot of features I'd like, many of which are so specific to me it wouldn't even make sense to contribute them via PR. I want to be able to transform the messages directly, add new buttons, toolbars, etc.
I'm looking for a kind of chrome-extensions-for-messenger type thing, ideally not tied up with some kind of social media, or ad-network, or gaming, or with a bunch of business features (like Slack etc.). Just a vanilla, extensible, desktop messenger.
If worse comes to worst I could whip one up for me and my comrades but maybe y'all have a link that could save me some time.