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2025


Crafting Your Software

·3191 words·15 mins

Packaging software is notoriously tricky. Every language, framework, and build system has its quirks, and the variety of artifact types — from Debian packages to OCI images and cloud images — only adds to the complexity.

This blog is a deep-dive on Canonical’s “craft” tools, how they evolved, and how to use them to simplify package maintenance.

2024


Simplifying Test & Release of Snapped GUI Apps

·1449 words·7 mins
The community-led organisation Snapcrafters maintains hundreds of Snap packages, with hundreds of thousands of users. This post looks at an upgraded test/release process with automated screenshotting of GUI apps, and a new Github Actions based workflow.