The paradox is that Macaroni Messenger is absolutely a joke project.
But once you reduce everything to Git + JSON, adding things like PGP, age, signatures, encrypted attachments, or end-to-end encryption becomes surprisingly easy.
Which makes it even funnier.
At first glance it looks like a toy.
After a few minutes you start asking:
“Wait… why does this actually make sense?”
I think the protocol is a bit underestimated. People see the joke before they see the architecture.
There are some surprisingly interesting properties hiding behind the absurdity.
Maybe it’s a hidden gem.
Or maybe I’m just rationalizing a messenger implemented as a single HTML file.
But once you reduce everything to Git + JSON, adding things like PGP, age, signatures, encrypted attachments, or end-to-end encryption becomes surprisingly easy.
Which makes it even funnier.
At first glance it looks like a toy.
After a few minutes you start asking:
“Wait… why does this actually make sense?”
I think the protocol is a bit underestimated. People see the joke before they see the architecture.
There are some surprisingly interesting properties hiding behind the absurdity.
Maybe it’s a hidden gem.
Or maybe I’m just rationalizing a messenger implemented as a single HTML file.