Patrick Cloke @clokep

Software engineer, formerly @matrixdotorg. Contributor to @MozThunderbird. @clokep@mastodon.social

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I don't frequently release beta versions of my packages, but I would love some testing of django-render-block v0.10b1 if anyone uses it! It fixes a couple of major bugs (better exception handling and multi-extends templates). See github.com/clokep/django-ren…

django-render-block/CHANGELOG.rst at main · clokep/django-render-block

Render the content of a specific block tag from a Django template. - clokep/django-render-block

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I was invited to join the Matrix Spec Core Team -- the technical stewards of the Matrix protocol. patrick.cloke.us/posts/2024/…

Joining the Matrix Spec Core Team

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...

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Performance fixes in Synapse, a public release for Circles, and recovery keys in Element X. That, and more happened this week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2024/02/23/t…

This Week in Matrix 2024-02-23

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

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One of the things I enjoyed improving on Synapse was the URL preview capability. I was curious how much it improved over the past several years so did some experiments: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2024/…

Synapse URL Previews

Matrix includes the ability for a client to request that the server generate a “preview” for a URL. The client provides a URL to the server which returns Open Graph data as a JSON response. This...

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Overview of a Matrix protocol change I made called intentional mentions: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/…

Matrix Intentional Mentions explained

Previously I have written about how push rules generate notifications and how read receipts mark notificiations as read in the Matrix protocol. This article is about a change that I instigated to...

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Matrix presence explained: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/… Published from notes when implementing multi-device support for presence in Synapse.

Matrix Presence

I put together some notes on presence when implementing multi-device support for presence in Synapse, maybe this is helpful to others! This is a combination of information from the specification, as...

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Was surprised to be listening to @TalkPython and hear a shout out to github.com/clokep/django-ren…! Listen at talkpython.fm/episodes/show/…

HTMX for Django Developers (And All of Us)

Are you considering or struggling with replacing much of the interactivity of your Django app with frontend JavaScript frameworks? After all, your users do expect an interactive and modern app,...

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Handling GitHub Notifications: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/… Republished from an internal discussion with coworkers on handling an overwhelming amount of GitHub notifications.

Handling GitHub Notifications

Note This was originally written for some coworkers and assumes a mostly GitHub-based workflow. It has been lightly edited to be more readable, but if your organization doesn’t use GitHub like we do...

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Bjoern Stiel @bjoernstiel
2 Oct 2023
👉 #Celery Community Spotlight Celery Batches by @clokep provides a Task class that lets you process multiple Celery tasks calls together as a list 👉 github.com/clokep/celery-bat… 🙌 Useful for de-duplicating tasks, bulk data operations... #celery #python #pythonprogramming

GitHub - clokep/celery-batches: Celery Batches allows processing of multiple Celery task requests...

Celery Batches allows processing of multiple Celery task requests together - clokep/celery-batches

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Celery architecture breakdown: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/… Wrote this >6 months ago and never hit publish since I always wanted to polish it a bit more. Today I figured it was good enough.

Celery architecture breakdown

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...

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Today is a big day: we're excited to welcome Josh Simmons as the first Managing Director of the Foundation! 🎉 This is a big step toward realizing the Foundation's role as a neutral steward for Matrix. Learn more: matrix.org/blog/2023/09/intr…
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I published a post on @matrixdotorg push rules & notifications: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/… (Based on some information I put together for folks at @element_hq)

Matrix Push Rules & Notifications

In a previous post about read receipts & notifications in Matrix I briefly mentioned that push rules generate notifications, but with little detail. After completing a rather large project to improve...

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A quick post on unexpected behavior of using Collection[str], Iterable[str], and similar type hints in #python patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/…

Python str Collection Gotchas

We have been slowly adding Python type hints [1] to Synapse and have made great progress (see some of our motivation). Through this process we have learned a lot about Python and type hints. One bit...

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Element @element_hq
19 Jan 2023
🚨 Product update 🚨 Threads is now live on all platforms... we repeat, threads is now live on all platforms! A big thanks to the team for all their hard work on this and we hope you're in your Element using it 💚
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A more meta post on *how* I do research before writing a Matrix Spec Change: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/…

Researching for a Matrix Spec Change

The Matrix protocol is modified via Matrix Spec Changes (frequently abbreviated to “MSCs”). These are short documents describing any technical changes and why they are worth making (see an example)....

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I published my research on Matrix's read receipts & how they impact notifications while putting together the MSCs for threads. Not sure if it is useful to others, but was encouraged to put it somewhere! patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/…

Matrix Read Receipts & Notifications

I recently wrapped up a project on improving notifications in threads for Matrix. This is adapted from my research notes to understand the status quo before adapting the Matrix protocol for threads...

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TechCrunch
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30 Dec 2022
Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable tcrn.ch/3G8csrF by @psawers
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Patrick Cloke retweeted
Neil Johnson @neilisfragile
4 Nov 2022
Folks a reminder that @element_hq is hiring Come help us build an open standard for secure messaging. It’s #FOSS, we’re fully remote, and you’ll be improving the data privacy of millions of people Even if you can't see a perfect match hit me up anyway apply.workable.com/elementio…

Element

Element is the startup which employs the core team behind matrix.org— the leading project for secure, open decentralised communication.Matrix’s mission is to make messaging as open as email— allowing...

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4 Feb 2022
I thought these were drawn exclusively for O’Reilly. My whole life is a lie.
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We are issuing security releases across Thunderbird ESR 102 and Beta to address vulnerabilities that affected #Matrix (which the Matrix team was quick to catch and patch!) If you're using Matrix in Thunderbird, we recommend manually updating your Thunderbird client.
The Matrix.org Foundation @matrixdotorg
28 Sep 2022
Full details of today's security release. If you are using Element or an application that shares the same SDKs (Beeper, Cinny, SchildiChat, Circuli, Synod.im) then please upgrade now. We have no evidence of exploitation in the wild. matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/u…
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