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299 posts from 2019
Make compelling videos with free software: Director’s Cut
By Igor Ljubuncic, 11 April 2019
Creating videos is easy. Creating great videos, not so much. A good production starts with an idea, but it also requires talent, time and tools. We cannot do...
Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap
By Sarah Dickinson, 11 April 2019
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux...
Speed up your ROS snap builds
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 April 2019
A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple...
Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates
By Sarah Dickinson, 9 April 2019
As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new...
API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 5 April 2019
API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the...
Visual Studio Code launches as a snap
By Canonical, 4 April 2019
4th  April 2019, London, UK – As of today, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is available for Linux as a snap, providing seamless auto-updates for its users....
Remote collaborative design
By Juan Real, 4 April 2019
Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working...
AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap
By Canonical, 2 April 2019
Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute,...
Design and Web team summary – 29 March 2019
By Peter Mahnke, 29 March 2019
This was a busy two weeks for the Web & Design team at Canonical. Many of the things we worked on will be completed in the next iteration, but here are some...
MicroK8s in the Wild
By Konstantinos Tsakalozos, 28 March 2019
Canonical released MicroK8s in December 2018, and as its popularity has grown, some interesting projects using this micro Kubernetes distribution have...
Snap startup time improvements
By Igor Ljubuncic, 28 March 2019
Several months ago, we shared an article titled I have a need, a need for snap that detailed the application performance results of snaps compared to their...