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Happy birthday GNOME! One of our favorite memories: planning and hacking alongside GNOME and GTK folks in SF in 2015. Everyone was so kind and accepting of us even though it was the first time many had met in person.

RT @gnome@twitter.com

It's our birthday today! We are now the wise age of 22. 😋 Join us in reminiscing these past years by sharing some of your favorite GNOME memories!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gnome/status/1162028971946475520

Our new blog is officially here. Come read about why we left Medium and how we built a crazy fast, privacy-respecting blog just for you.

https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/

Accessibility features shouldn’t be some separate, second-class experience; instead, software should be accessible by default. Like curb cuts improve sidewalks for everyone, accessibility has benefits for all. https://blog.elementary.io/accessibility-features-are-just-features/

AppCenter is soon gaining support for Flatpak. Learn what that means, why Flatpak, and how things will be shaping up in the near future. https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-appcenter-flatpak/

A truly privacy-focused product must protect your data from itself, protect your data from others, be fully open source, and have a direct funding model. See how elementary does all of the above. https://blog.elementary.io/privacy-and-elementary-os/

#GUADEC2019 is rapidly approaching, and we’ll be there! Check out what we learned last year at GUADEC 2018 to get a sense of what’s in store. https://blog.elementary.io/things-we-learned-at-guadec-2018/

No ads. No spying. No outside influences. Focused on people. A reminder about our stance on advertising and tracking. https://buff.ly/2KlfxZA

Check out this video overview of the new Onboarding app for new users! https://buff.ly/2YPKa1o

Check out what we were up to in July on our brand new blog! https://buff.ly/33cXjkx

You may have noticed something new on our blog posts lately: the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license! We're happy to release our content to the community to remix, adapt, and share. Read more on our new blog—more on that coming later, too: https://buff.ly/2Yn21gN

Now *that’s* a fan! Those tees all look great, Raí.

Want to be as cool as Raí? Snag your own tees from http://elementary.io/store

If you’re enjoying the design insight from the Medium blog this week, here’s a mini thread of Cassidy working through some updates to AppCenter. We have these sorts of discussions and iterations every day behind the scenes, but it’s always fun to share a peek behind the curtains!

RT @CassidyJames@twitter.com

I worked a bit on AppCenter this past week. With Flatpaks mixed into updates and app info pages, it means updates sizes will *seemingly* balloon—but that’s not actually the case. 🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CassidyJames/status/1153751420014698496

Check out Onboarding—our new app designed to improve the first-run experience and updates on elementary OS—and learn how it fits into an upcoming major update to the OS. Plus, dive deep into the iterative design process behind the scenes. https://buff.ly/2M8TDKD

When an app wants access to your location on elementary OS, it has to ask. We show a prompt telling which app and how precise it’s asking—and you can always revoke access later in Security & Privacy settings. Because your data belongs to you, and only you. https://buff.ly/2XIgbsF

Get work done. Or play.

Stay productive and focused with Multitasking View, Picture-in-Picture, Do Not Disturb, and more. Or keep work out of sight when watching videos or playing games. elementary OS is built to cater to your workflow. https://buff.ly/2GarNd2

elementary OS comes with a carefully considered set of apps that cater to every day needs so you can spend more time using your computer and less time cleaning up bloat. Looking for more? Just open AppCenter to choose from tons of pay-what-you-want apps. https://buff.ly/2JwoJtS

User friendly. And keyboard friendly.

elementary OS is easy to pick up as a new user, but that doesn’t mean it’s dumbed down; keyboard shortcuts keep you productive whether it’s your first day or your thousandth—just tap the ⌘ key to see a cheat sheet. https://buff.ly/2jGzrUE

Thanks to our @ubuntu@twitter.com base, elementary OS 5 Juno users will now get these updated @nvidia@twitter.com drivers too!

RT @ubuntu@twitter.com

Good news everyone on Team Green 🎮 Ubuntu LTS users will get the latest nVidia binary driver updates without needing PPAs or crazy scripts!
Check this quick video from @thelinuxEXP@twitter.com for all the details!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFdeWTQIpjo

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1149408101822541824

Developers: what are your thoughts on your individual app pages at http://appcenter.elementary.io? Our goal is for you to have a straightforward, clean landing page for your app. What do you like? What could we do better?