Well that didn’t take too long: After Instagram officially cut off its photo integration with Twitter today, one developer has already created a Chrome extension that reverses Instagram’s change on your desktop.

Michael Schonfeld, a developer evangelist at the payments company Dwolla, whipped the InstaTwit extension together in just an hour and a half. Once installed, it places Instagram photos back into Twitter Cards — just as if the drama from this week between the two companies never happened.

In an e-mail to VentureBeat, Schonfeld said he was conflicted about Instagram’s move away from Twitter: “On one hand, as an entrepreneur, I can understand their wish to have people go through their site (Instagram’s, that is), yet on the other hand, as a user  — I feel used… I’ve helped grow this amazing network, and now that it reached a certain level of capacity, I’m being mistreated. I don’t think this move was necessarily influenced by Facebook, however.”

I’ve confirmed that InstaTwit works as advertised: the Instagram image above looks fine in Chrome after installing the extension, while it’s just a link when viewed in any other browser.

While it’s not a complete solution — InstaTwit won’t help on tablets or smartphones, for example — it’s a nice and simple fix until Instagram can make peace with Twitter.

Schonfeld notes that both companies could potentially break the extension, but he’s not too worried about that possibility: “On Instagram’s side, they can change the structure of their URL shortener, or even disable direct access to the photo files themselves. In any case, I doubt it’ll be very hard to adjust the extension accordingly.”

Recently launched “crowdcoding” startup Late Labs has selected its first project. It’s an app called Buggle Us, and it will be a Google Chrome extension for simple photo editing and sharing.

Late Labs, the brainchild of co-founders Justin Elof Johnson and Nathan Ross, takes a disruptive view on startup apps by pledging to spearhead several projects and offering equity to coders who work on those projects. On each new project, Johnson and Ross will manage design and distribution, and one developer will oversee the technical development of the project. Other coders will come into the fold as needed, based on their skills, and will get equity. To manage code submissions, Late Labs integrates with GitHub.

The company has had nearly 3,000 developers sign up since it announced its existence about two weeks ago. Brian Cary, director of engineering at ReTargeter, will be the technical lead on Buggle Us and will select two additional coders from the developer pool. Johnson said the team is starting small to get the kinks worked out, and the next project could have as many as 10 coders selected from the pool.

“A year from now, we want to have five projects built and be a well-oiled machine,” Johnson said.

Buggle Us will be a Chrome browser extension that enables “ridiculously simple” photo editing and sharing, almost like an “Instagram for Chrome,” as Johnson phrases it. Johnson estimates that it will take two months to complete and launch the application. We’re looking forward to testing it out and seeing if Late Labs’ “crowdcoding” model takes off.

San Francisco-based Late Labs is currently bootstrapped, but is on the lookout for seed funds. “We’ve struck a serious nerve with the developer community,” Johnson said. “We’re moving crazy fast and meeting with investors next week.”

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