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So, I just installed Fedora. Installing my favorite applications was among the list of things to do after installing Fedora. I tried installing VLC in Flatpak form, but it gave me an error: error: No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’ No remote refs found error displayed with Flatpak Fixing “no remote refs found similar…
The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. mir-server.io rebuild with a brand new tutorial…
Building an online store is easier than ever. Picking the right tool to power your new store isn’t. There are many tools out there, but for most people, the choice will go between the two market leaders: Shopify and WooCommerce. Both ecommerce platforms have a comparable feature set, but a different philosophy. Let’s take a…
Social media usage is on the up and up. Our Sprout Social Index™ 2021: UK & Ireland Edition report found 76% of consumers have used social media more in the past year, and 63% have bought from it. Brands caught on to this upward trend and are engaging social media users to drive awareness, clicks…
Recently, Valve announced their upcoming handheld gaming device, the Steam Deck, which is really a portable PC that will run Arch Linux. You can even plug in a monitor to the Steam Deck. Many see the Steam Deck as a threat to Nintendo, but I see the Steam Deck as a serious threat to Windows…
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Ubuntu in the wild Improving data center…
Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. We admire journalists today more than ever. Whether getting their start as a solo blogger on their own beat, or growing up in a thriving newsroom, journalists must forge their own unique work life as they write the first draft of history. So…
Adding a simple tooltip into your page or app isn’t difficult. You can easily find a multitude of JavaScript tooltip plugins and scripts that will all work perfectly well. But pure CSS is often a better option and has become the preferred choice for many web designers. If you’re looking for pure CSS tooltips, then…
In this video we will look at Supabase https://supabase.io Find all of my Udemy courses: https://traversymedia.com Read moreWhat is the difference between shared & dedicated hosting?? Support The Channel! http://www.patreon.com/traversymedia Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro & Slides 6:24 – Creating a Project 8:10 – Creating a Table & Columns 9:21 – Adding Data 9:38 – API…
Google Lighthouse is the industry standard for testing website performance, and is now built into our SEO plugin, SmartCrawl. Lighthouse has historically been able to run in several ways: as a Chrome DevTools, as a separate Chrome add-on (with a few restrictions), and as a Node package (incorporating it into your build process). Now, you…
Defender, our answer to WordPress security, just beefed things up even more with his new Google reCAPTCHA feature! Google reCAPTCHA ensures that it’s a human that enters your site instead of automated spammers that can wreak havoc. As you’ll see, it’s as easy as ever to get reCAPTCHA activated in just a few clicks. We’ll…
Today, the Kubernetes community made the 1.22 release candidate available, a few weeks ahead of general availability, planned for August the 4th. We invite developers, platform engineers and cloud tech enthusiasts to experiment with the new features, report back findings and bugs. MicroK8s is the easiest way to get up and running with the latest…
Perception is everything, and in today’s 24/7/365 global news cycle, it can change in an instant. For public relations teams navigating this often turbulent environment, the insights gleaned from social media can be a guiding light—illuminating how your audience feels and how you can best position your brand in response to timely issues and breaking…
DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. Three DFI products have been certified recently, which means you will have an out-of-box experience, secure, faster time to market with DFI products and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is preloaded on the certified devices, and Canonical provides 10 years of…
Yesterday, there was another release of WordPress and once again it’s packed with lots of cool features. This release is a big step in the direction of full site editing. It brings us new possibilities to easily change up our pages, spice up our images, and other improvements to our favorite open source platform. Let’s…
Android is built on top of a heavily customized Linux kernel. So, running mobile apps on Linux makes sense using an Android emulator. While this is not something new that you can do on your Linux machine, it is a feature more in demand after Windows introduced the ability to run Android apps in 2021….
It may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when it was rare to find high-quality photography on a typical website. Only the big-budget players had access to compelling images. And even then, they were likely borrowed from existing print materials. Those of us building websites for smaller organizations were often left with…
by Charles Fisher Introduction The SQLite database is a wildly successful and ubiquitous software package that is mostly unknown to the larger IT community. Designed and coded by Dr. Richard Hipp, the third major revision of SQLite serves many users in market segments with critical requirements for software quality, which SQLite has met with compliance…
From TikTok to Facebook, global social media usage is booming at 3.6 billion people. And while not all of these audiences are using social media to interact with businesses, a significant number are. According to social media marketing statistics, social plays a vital role for businesses: 55% of consumers learn about new brands on social…
On June 16, 2021, WordPress.com presented a live webinar focused on Managed Hosting with WordPress.com. The topic expert was Rudy Faile, Automattic Systems Engineer. Hosting the webinar was Sam Vaidya, Automattic Happiness Engineer. If you missed the live event, don’t worry. You can watch the recording at your convenience on Youtube or view it right…