Sarah Dickinson

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

by Sarah Dickinson on 16 February 2018

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed...

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

by Sarah Dickinson on 13 February 2018

Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years...

Building Slack for the Linux community and adopting snaps

by Sarah Dickinson on 6 February 2018

Used by millions around the world, Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Slack...

Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings

by Sarah Dickinson on 31 January 2018

Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

by Sarah Dickinson on 19 December 2017

Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools...

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

by Sarah Dickinson on 11 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

by Sarah Dickinson on 5 December 2017

In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows,...

Ubuntu Core manages 25m data points a minute

by Sarah Dickinson on 30 November 2017

Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores

by Sarah Dickinson on 20 November 2017

When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how...

Orchestrating architectural installations and live shows with snaps

by Sarah Dickinson on 15 November 2017

Dutch manufacturer Visual Productions BV, provides multi-platform software and solid-state hardware lighting control technology for namely the architectural,...

Discovering snaps with .NET and Microsoft

by Sarah Dickinson on 8 November 2017

.NET Core, run by the .NET Foundation and Microsoft,  is a free, cross-platform platform that supports building and running the next generation of web...