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2026

Nexy digest, edition 1

*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.

No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project

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.