This site is where my blog lives! Where I write about all the things!
If you want to see my microblogs (thoughts), see my fediverse profile - linked at the bottom of this page.
Occasionally, I'll get a ping on Matrix from someone asking for the source on my bio (or some other comment on it). The issue is, each time I have to ask them, "which bio did you see?". This often confuses people - what do you mean "which one"? Well, about that... I have over 25, and growing. And in this post, I'm going to explain how! Because it was kinda fun.
*taps mic* this thing still on? My blog has been collecting dust for, as per usual, quite some time. As I say all the time, I usually have small things I want to write about, but rarely enough to justify writing a whole blog post. Well, today I'm going to try something new: a "monthly" breakdown of everything that happened since my last digest, including things I've done, things I'm working on, future plans, and any other honourable mentions I feel are important.
Yesterday, 2026-01-27, Cloudflare published a blog post announcing that they had built a Matrix homeserver that could run entirely on Cloudflare workers. This sounds amazing! Finally, serverless edge-computing for my chat protocol. In theory this brings great benefits, given Cloudflare's dominant global presence. It could even improve access, since lots of networks don't just blanket ban Cloudflare ranges. But, something far more sinister lies in wait.
On 2025-12-21, an zero-day vulnerability was exploited against the continuwuity Matrix rooms. This included all of our community rooms, including the space, main room, offtopic room, development room, BSD suport room, announcements room, git notifications room, and worst of all, our minecraft room. All of our communal rooms were left in tatters with only some damn lucky servers escaping unscathed. We were completely blindsided by this attack, and with zero anticipation, also had zero information on it. Even worse, this attack seemingly affected all servers that weren't Synapse or Dendrite. Quite the dire problem!
I'm going to walk through, step by step, what happened, how it all went down, and what we're doing to ensure disasters like this can't happen again.
I've gone back and forth on making this blog post for probably a few months now. This isn't the sort of thing I take pride in making really, usually I prefer to make things that are upbeat and have a positive impact. But more and more lately, I've really just been asking myself that one simple question. Where do we go from here?
If you've known me for some amount of time you knew this was something that was bound to happen eventually. Yesterday (and technically today), me and a friend went on an endeavor to hack our washing machine, partially for the fun of it, and partially because there's actually a practical use for it.
As is to be expected, I did the thing every aspiring blog writer does and started a blog page, only to write three posts and then never touch it again. Truth is, I've been itching to write more, but I both haven't had the time, and everything that I wanted to write about ended up not being worthy of its own entry. Plus, almost all of it has been Matrix-related, and I want my blog to be about more than Matrix. But whatever, here's an overview of everything I've been doing since the start of the year. Some of it's interesting!
Hello reader, welcome to 2025!
I've heard the saying "new year, new me" before, but quite frankly, I feel like "new year, new devops solution to a simple bash script" is more fitting. This is just a short blog post to explain how this blog is actually hosted! Very meta.
I have been using [Matrix] for a long time now (over a few years), and have gone from simply using it as a way to chat to friends while in school, to being in hundreds of rooms, talking to anyone and everyone, and even writing bots for it.
In this post today, I'm going to summarise my experience on Matrix, what it is, the pros and cons of it, and what I think the future holds for it, and a few of the issues that I have with it.
Virgin Media (or Virmin Media), one of the world's worst internet service providers I have used so far. Read on to find out my experience with them, and the lengths I have had to go to in order to get a basic level of support as a long time paying customer.