Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose

@clemens.klokmose.net

Associate professor @ Computer Science, Aarhus University. Arcade game enthusiast. Bass player. Web page (work): https://cs.au.dk/~clemens/

icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done

Screenshot of The Matrix State of the Union stram showing a powerpoint with the text:
The Future
- We're going to continue to laser-focus on being the best decentralized secure comms platform in the world.
- That means we're not going to purse decentralized social - good luck to ATproto, ActivityPub, Nostr etc.
- It means we're not going to pursue free-style decentralized data replication - good luck to Automerge, Beehive, Local-First etc.
- It means we're not going to build other Matrix showcases (e.g. Thirdroom)
- Instead, we are going to continue focusing everything on building a safe, global, resilient, secure communication network which can be used to build decentralized alternatives to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Teams, Slack, Discord and friends.Screenshot of The Matrix State of the Union video showing a powerpoint with white background and black text that reads:
In practice, this means:
- Finish Hydra.
- Fix client-controlled cryptographic group membership (either by MLS, DMLS, or client-side state resolution.
- Improve metadata posture (Pseudo IDs, encrypted state events, maybe leveraging MLS)
- Improving Trust & Safety
- Ensuring that ecosystem-driven features like custom profiles, custom emoji, etc. actually land in the spec.
- Figuring out how Matrix can be used by other ecosystems more effectively, to try to avoid ATproto/ActivityPub/Nostr/Beehive etc. reinventing Matrix.

I'm teaching 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺(𝘀)! again. I'll be posting the videos & tasks on YouTube too. In the first lecture, I explain what's a tiny system, why write one and show plenty of demos! 🎞️ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 👉 More info: d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/npr...

Write your own tiny programming system(s)! - YouTube

The goal of this course is to teach how fundamental programming language techniques, algorithms and systems work by writing their miniature versions. The cou...

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I denne uge har jeg og en stor del af mine kolleger været værter for over 250 internationale kolleger på en forskningskonference i Århus, som mit forskningsmiljø afholder hvert 10. år. Dét var sjovt. Og hårdt. Men mest hårdt i tiden op til og heldigvis hele tiden sjovt. > #dkforsk

Stakladen på Århus universitet, onsdag morgen og fyldt med tilhørere. På scenen står vi tre hovedarrangører og byder velkommen (jeg er til venstre i rødt).Sidste slide fra afsluttende session i går eftermiddags: vi ses i 2035!

It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola. In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses: ✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process ✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs ✅ Open access (!)

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Sometimes you see something that immediately changes how you think about certain things. This generative-AI-as-a-photoshop-like-tool is one of those somethings.

Damien Masson@damienhci.bsky.social · last yr.

Photoshop for text. In our #CHI2025 paper “Textoshop”, we explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edit text. We consider words as pixels, sentences as regions, and tones as colours. #HCI #NLProc #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵 (1/10)

There are few things I come back to as often as Bill Buxton's "What Sketches (and Prototypes) Are and Are Not": www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicour... "Their value lies not in the artifact of the sketch itself, but its ability to provide a catalyst to the desired behaviours, conversations, & interactions"

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I'm working on a new typeface for my Canadian and Mexican friends to liberate them from American typography. I call it Sans Tariff. It's like any other font you can get from the US these days but about 25% smaller.