The year is 1989. I bought a computer game called F-16: Combat Pilot, a flight simulator featuring free-flight, five types of single-player missions, a full...
Tag - snapcraft
Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages...
Snaps are designed to be self-contained packages of binaries, libraries and other assets. A snap might end up being quite bulky if the primary application it...
Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change...
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping...
In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we...
The Snap Store has been designed to enable upstream developers and enthusiastic community contributors to publish snaps. As with most Linux packaging...
If you’re a snap developer, you know that snap development is terribly easy. Or rather complex and difficult. Depending on your application code and...
You’d think we would be running out of terrible/great (delete as applicable) 80s songs to try and shoehorn into the titles of these blog posts. Turns out, not...
Snapcraft channels and, consequently, tracks are an important, highly useful element of the snap ecosystem. Tracks enable snap developers to publish multiple...
