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Posts about elementary OS and related topics
AppCenter Website Updates Mon, Jan 28, 2019
Release notes, prices, and more
In July, we revealed a brand new experience for sharing AppCenter URLs, powered by a new AppCenter website. It’s now been running smoothly for…
GNOME’s New App Icons Drop Pixel-Precision and Hinting Wed, Jan 23, 2019
What it means for elementary OS
Jakub taking photos on an outing from the GNOME London UX Hackfest This week Jakub Steiner, a designer at GNOME—and a friend of mine!—announced…
Privacy and elementary OS Wed, Jan 9, 2019
How we protect your data from ourselves and others
With the release of elementary OS 5 Juno still fresh, I wanted to take a moment and talk about our continued privacy focus with…
Introducing Ephemeral Wed, Jan 9, 2019
The always-incognito web browser
Ever since Firefox Focus landed on Android, I’ve been a fan. It’s an interesting idea of making privacy a habit by default instead of…
AppCenter Spotlight: Fondo Mon, Jan 7, 2019
Find the most beautiful wallpapers
elementary uses Unsplash as a source for many of our wallpapers, and now there’s a native app here to let you easily browse and…
AppCenter Spotlight: Write.as Thu, Dec 20, 2018
Publish a thought in seconds
It’s been a while since we did an AppCenter Spotlight due to the massive Juno release and subsequent updates, but today we’re back with…
elementary OS 5 Juno is Here Tue, Oct 16, 2018
Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform
elementary OS is the fast, open, and privacy-respecting alternative to Windows and macOS. Over the past year we’ve been hard at work putting together…
AppCenter and Content Ratings Mon, Sep 24, 2018
Using open standards to empower users and parents
Today, apps submitted to AppCenter are required to provide Open Age Ratings Service (OARS) data along with their code and other metadata. While app…
Why We Use “Checks” in Checkboxes and Radio Buttons Sat, Sep 22, 2018
Checkboxes and radio buttons are honestly used pretty sparingly in elementary OS, and even more sparingly together. When they are used, it’s fairly obvious…
We’re Back from LAS 2018 Wed, Sep 12, 2018
Sharing knowledge and wisdom in Denver, Colorado
This past week elementary contributors Daniel Foré, Felipe Escoto, Blake Kostner, and I met up in Denver, Colorado for the Libre Application Summit (LAS)….
AppCenter Spotlight: Minder Mon, Sep 3, 2018
Create, develop, and visualize your ideas
Minder with map properties, including layouts and themes Sometimes an app comes out of seemingly nowhere to fill a need and impress, and that’s…
A New Chapter Wed, Aug 1, 2018
tl;dr I’m going full-time at elementary
My Career at System76 In 2013 I was looking for a new high end laptop to help with my elementary contributions—I wanted it to be…
Introducing New AppCenter Sharing URLs Fri, Jul 20, 2018
Easily share apps to users whether or not they’re on elementary OS
Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on a revamped appcenter.elementary.io. Today I’m happy to announce its official debut! In the past, this…
Developer Tips: Updating Your Apps for Juno Thu, Jul 19, 2018
Be ready to debut alongside elementary OS 5
Now that the developer previews for Juno beta1 and beta2 are out, it’s prime time for app developers to get their apps ready. In…
AppCenter Spotlight: Tootle Fri, Jun 15, 2018
Lightning fast client for Mastodon
It hasn’t been long since we featured an app by Bleak Grey, but he’s back at it. This month we’re taking a look at…
Developer Tips: Backgrounding & System Integration Tue, May 15, 2018
Best practices for making your app a first-class citizen
How your app should integrate with elementary OS and run in the background can be a tricky topic; other platforms have different conventions like…
AppCenter Spotlight: Transporter Tue, May 15, 2018
Hassle-free file sharing
Transporter by Bleak Grey is pure magic. Based on a technology called Magic Wormhole (yes, really), it makes sharing a file across the room…
AppCenter Spotlight: Web Watcher Mon, May 14, 2018
Know when your websites are misbehaving!
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get Web Watcher. Web Watcher by KJ Lawrence is a native app that aims to replace third-party…
AppCenter Spotlight: quickDocs Fri, Apr 13, 2018
Quickly Read Developer Docs
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get quickDocs. quickDocs is a lightweight reader for developer documentation, made by Matt Harris. I chatted with…
Introducing Palette Tue, Apr 10, 2018
A new app for elementary colors
This past weekend, I realized I was opening a web browser to do something a native app could do better: referencing and copy-pasting colors….
Unroll the Purpleprint Wed, Mar 14, 2018
The story behind the elementary OS Beta wallpaper
In our Let’s Talk About elementary OS 5.0 Juno post, we debuted a new vibrant purple wallpaper with a sort of blueprint aesthetic going…
AppCenter Spotlight: Color Picker Fri, Mar 2, 2018
Speed up your workflow
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get Color Picker. It might look simple, but Color Picker by Ronny Dobra is a well-designed utility…
Why the Looped Square (⌘) Symbol? Thu, Mar 1, 2018
Keyboard shortcuts in elementary OS are the same no matter if it’s a Windows-branded keyboard or not; we just use the ⌘ looped square…
AppCenter Spotlight: Artem Anufrij Thu, Feb 15, 2018
Meet the one developer behind ten AppCenter apps
Artem Anufrij has become a sort of legend of AppCenter: he’s published ten apps (more than any other single developer so far), written a…
Let’s talk about elementary OS 5 Juno Mon, Feb 12, 2018
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We’ve avoided talking too much about Juno until recently because frankly, we’d been focused on pushing constant updates out to Loki. We’ve pushed out…