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"web and design"

jdkandersson
9 January 2025

How we used Flask and 12-factor charms to simplify Canonical.com development

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Learn how Canonical is using Python Flask and the 12-factor charm framework to simplify the development of Canonical.com and Ubuntu.com ...

Anthony Dillon
25 October 2023

Web team – hack week 2023

Design Ubuntu tech blog

Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach and so almost everything we do and work on can be found publicly on the Canonical Github org. It is not enough to simply open our ...

Holly Hall
30 June 2023

Snapcraft.io reloaded: check out the new look and feel

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

We’re happy to announce that snapcraft.io has a fresh, new look! Time for an update After keeping the same user interface and style for several years, we embarked on a project to redesign snapcraft.io and give it a more modern look. We spent a lot of time analysing how we could improve the store and ...

Goulin Khoge
14 October 2022

Introducing a VSCode extension for Vanilla CSS Framework

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

The Vanilla CSS Framework is a utility class-based and customizable SASS library that is the go-to when it comes to styling websites and dashboards across the majority of projects at Canonical. Knowing all the class utilities could be tricky. That’s why we make sure that our documentation is up-to-date and accessible as much as possible. ...

toto
4 October 2022

3 step guide to start Hacktoberfest

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Last week, the web and design team organised an internal Hacktoberfest. Our goal was simple: contribute to Open Source projects, understand what makes a great contribution experience, and how we could get inspired for our own projects. Here are 3-step guides from our experience during this Hacktoberfest. 1. What should I contribute to? He ...

toto
25 March 2021

Meet my co-worker, webbot

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Like every team, the web team has a set of features that are super useful to automate. We use Hubot, a technology owned by GitHub to write very simple bot scripts that we can interact with. The way we use the bot is mostly via Mattermost. We called it: webbot. In this article I would ...

Rhys Davies
10 April 2020

Robotics pages on Ubuntu: bridging the gap

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Today, 10/04/2020, new robotics pages went live on ubuntu.com. We want to show our involvement, our stance and our support for ROS and robotics. These three pages cover what we do in the robotics space, Canonical’s involvement with ROS and Open Robotics, and the relevance of community in the field of robotics. Our intention is ...

toto
11 March 2020

Tutorials for everyone from everyone

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

TL:DR The tutorials site was refreshed. Tutorials are written in Discourse. They are then pulled and displayed on different sites: ubuntu.com, snapcraft.io, maas.io and jaas.ai. Contributing to open source tools goes beyond writing code. Some of the best contributions simply explain to others how to use the software through tutorials and ...

Peter Mahnke
18 February 2020

Design and Web team summary – 14 February 2020

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

The Web and Design team at Canonical looks after most of our main websites, the brand, our Vanilla CSS framework and several of our products with web front-ends.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work over our last two-week iteration. Web & Brand squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of ...

Anthony Dillon
5 February 2020

Design and Web team summary – 5th February 2020

Design Ubuntu tech blog

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web and Design team at Canonical.  Some of us attended our internal roadmap alignment sprint in Cape Town. These trips are extremely valuable for the Web and Design team as we interact with almost all teams across the company.  Here are some of the highlights of ...

Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

Design Ubuntu tech blog

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Build and release dqlite.io The dqlite.io site has been built and deployed. ...

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