Patrick Cloke

Matrix had very limited user profile information, only: display name and an avatar. [1] Users are able to get/set these fields with a simple CRUD REST API.

I was recently invited to join the Matrix “Spec Core Team”, the group who steward the Matrix protocol, from their own documentation: The contents and direction of the Matrix Spec is governed by the Spec Core Team; a set of experts from across the whole Ma…

Matrix includes the ability for a client to request that the server generate a “preview” for a URL.

Previously I have written about how push rules generate notifications and how read receipts mark notifications as read in the Matrix protocol.

I put together some notes on presence when implementing multi-device support for presence in Synapse, maybe this is helpful to others!

Note This was originally written for some coworkers and assumes a mostly GitHub-based workflow.

I demoed some of my work at Element on Matrix Live back on August 4th’s This Week in Matrix (and failed to mention it here).

The Celery project, which is often used Python library to run “background tasks” for synchronous web frameworks, describes itself as: Celery is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages , while providing opera…

In a previous post about read receipts & notifications in Matrix I briefly mentioned that push rules generate notifications, but with little detail.

We have been slowly adding Python type hints [1] to Synapse and have made great progress (see some of our motivation).