Quentin Gliech
sandhose.fr
Quentin Gliech
@sandhose.fr
Software engineer working on auth at Element for @matrix.org
Reposted by Quentin Gliech
🚀 We’re ready for The Matrix Conference 2025 kicking off tomorrow in Strasbourg!

🌍 300+ participants from 20+ countries and 10+ governments - all championing Matrix-based sovereign, secure and interoperable communications. We’re proud to be the anchor sponsor again!

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Ready for The Matrix Conference 2025!
We’re ready for The Matrix Conference 2025 - 300+ participants from 20+ countries and 10+ governments - all championing Matrix-based sovereign, secure and interoperable communications.
element.io
October 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Having daily-driven the new UI for quite some time now, I had forgotten how much worse the old room list was. Such a nice revamp
🚀 Element Web & Desktop just got a glow-up, bringing Element X vibes from mobile straight to your laptop!

✨ New room list filters
🔔 Clearer notifications
🔧 Accessibility & performance upgrades

Version v1.12.0 is live! Try it out and let us know what you think.
New Element Web and Desktop apps have distinct Element X vibes!
The brand new updates of the Element Web and Desktop apps include a major rework of room listings. It brings the ‘laptop versions’ of the Element apps in line with the Element X design on mobile devic...
element.io
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is certainly one of the most intriguing mystery I’ve ever witnessed at $dayjob
Element's backend team has published a great postmortem of their work recovering the matrix.org postgres database from corruption over the last few weeks.

For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...
Matrix.org
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
matrix.org
July 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Quentin Gliech
"An open standard is the key to digitally sovereign communications between multiple separate organisations.”

Matthew Hodgson presents with UNICC's Tima Soni at UN Open Source Week about the importance of open standard federation for real time communications.

element.io/blog/the-imp...
The importance of open standard federation for chat
A genuine open standard is the single most important part of ensuring digitally sovereign communications between multiple separate organisations.
element.io
June 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Did Apple effectively broke the Sign-in with Apple OpenID Connect discovery document? appleid.apple.com/.well-known/... now advertises endpoints on account.apple.com; including the issuer. Looking at my Sentry errors, the switch happened ~2h ago?
appleid.apple.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Quentin Gliech
I just published a new blog post about two of my absolute favourite CSS tricks. ✨

www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/pa...
Partial Keyframes • Josh W. Comeau
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations s...
www.joshwcomeau.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is probably my biggest achievement working at Element :D
I worked for more than 4 years on next gen auth for Matrix and MAS 🙂‍↕️
We're thrilled to announce that the migration of matrix.org to the Matrix Authentication Service (MAS) is complete and went according to plan!

Find all the details and videos of how it looks like on Element X and Fractal on our blog!
Matrix.org is now running MAS!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
matrix.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Quentin Gliech
Welcome to the Wild West of consumer messaging apps within governments. It’s not a one off. It’s not just the Trump administration. Governments have to put a serious alternative in place, combining the usability and E2EE of messaging apps with enterprise-grade oversight and control.
US shows the risk of running a government by Signal
The Trump administration’s spectacular security breach, in which it seemingly shared details of a planned military strike in Yemen with a journalist, highlights just what can go wrong if you use consu...
element.io
March 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
@bnewbold.net @divy.zone @mikestaub.social I've been reading your OAuth related proposal & it got me excited as you're trying to solve the exact same decentralised client metadata/registration problem I've been trying to solve for Matrix. I have a lot to say on it, I think we need to chat about this
February 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM