Category: Ubuntu

Debugging iOS Safari from Linux

While implementing Apple Pay on the Bixoto checkout, a collegue of mine was struggling with strange errors on iOS, but couldn’t properly debug it from their Linux computer. Thankfully, it’s possible to get the debugger to work on Linux, although the experience is not exactly smooth. The commands used in this guide are for Ubuntu … Read more

Install avifenc on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

AVIF is a next-generation image format for the Web, that’s supported by all major browsers except IE and Edge. It has better compression than WebP, which itself is a great improvement as a replacement for JPG. As of today, the most efficient way to encode JPG images into AVIF is to use libavif’s avifenc. There are no prebuilt … Read more