How I used my home router to watch the Spain worlds cup match from Portugal
A home VPN protects your family on public network, and comes in handy for watching geo-blocked content too.
Daniel Lombraña - Blog
My personal view on crowdsourcing, citizen science and web development.
Latest posts
I let Claude improve my keyboard's firmware
A short story about how Claude improved my keyboard's firmware
Farcaster vs AT Protocol
Decentralizing networks one bit at a time
Farcaster Frames Unleashed
Simplifying App Development within Your Social Graph
Learning from Failure: Lessons from the Challenger Disaster and Engineering Ethics
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Ensuring secure minting amidst scam link threats
Learn the best practices for secure minting and protect yourself from scam link threats.
Writing a Farcaster Bot
A simple way to cast messages using Github Actions and Google Spreadsheets
Chapter one: Eclipse
Searching for
Paragraph.xyz vs Mirror.xyz
Which web3 newsletter/blog platform is the best?
Farcaster vs Lens Protocol
Decentralized social protocols face to face
Breathing Letters
A dynamic NFT collection for relaxing your mind
Handling your NFTs collection safely
A simple guide on how to protect your NFTs using hardware wallets
My first year in web3
My trip from just a mere observer to a web3 enthusiast
A simple CMS with nuxt-content and Forestry.io
How to create a simple CMS with nuxt-content and Forestry.io
101 Migrating Python 2 to 3
A few basic tips to migrate your Python 2 to 3
Migrate your Jekyll's site to NuxtJS
Learn how you can migrate your static site to NuxtJS
Visualizing The Air Quality With Lambda Functions
How to transform open data into APIs using lambda functions
Full text search: a simple guide for your static site
How to index your static site and make it searchable without a DB
Year in review
What we have done this 2018
On the press
Press coverage about my work
Building static websites with Jekyll, VueJS & Bulma
Hacking with Jekyll, VueJS & Bulma
The DIY atomic force microscope
Here's a question: what image would you choose to represent 'science'? If you search 'science' in Google Images, you'll see a fair few images of microscopes. The microscope is a tool that people widely associate with science and research. But how did this happen? Why did the microscope become so popular?
Year in review
2015 has been an incredible year for team SciFabric.
17000 Volunteers Contribute to a PhD
The Art of Graceful Reloading
The holy grail of web developers is to do deployments without interrupting your users. In this blog post I explain how we have achieved it using uWSGI Zerg Mode for our Crowdcrafting servers.
Auto-translating PYBOSSA using PYBOSSA
How do you translate properly your product into different languages? More importantly, how do you do it involving your own community?
uWSGI, or why you don't need Varnish
As a web developer one of my main goals is performance. In this blog post I explain how we have boosted the performance of Crowdcrafting without touching the PYBOSSA code or adding any extra layer to our stack.
Autodeployments
At Crowdcrafting we take really seriously shipping code. For this reason, we've created a very simple web service (it's our own software robot) that automatically deploys for us any Github project with Ansible playbooks and posts the status of the deployment in our Slack chat channel.
Crowdcrafting stack
Putting all your heart in what you do makes the difference. Why? Because as the Baron says in the movie, The Cat Returns, the creation is given a soul.
3 steps to build a successful team
How do you build a successful team? Moreover, how do you do it when you don't have any idea about recruiting? This is my story about how I've built the amazing team behind Crowdcrafting and PYBOSSA.
Video pitching one day of my life
Video pitching is an art. Why? Because you want to be remembered, not just thrown away into the pool of boring-nothing-new videos basket.
Makers vs Craftsmen
Makers are getting a lot of press coverage lately. However, I haven't read any article about the craftsmen: people who also build things with their hands and tools.
Year in review as a Shuttleworth Fellow
One year ago I started a fellowship that changed my life.
Command line candy for PYBOSSA
PYBOSSA is a great framework, however we were lacking a nice command line tool to interact with it.
Reinventing the wheel
In the last three days I've participated in the third Citizen Cyberscience Summit.
Interview
Last week I was invited by La Aventura del Saber, a TV show from the Spanish National TV, to talk about Citizen Science and explain it.
The adventure of knowing
Last year, I was the director of a citizen science hackfest, with international and well respected professionals on the field like Francois Grey from the Citizen Cyberscience Centre and Shannon Dosemagen from Public Labs.
Sharing your PYBOSSA application analysis with Enki
Up to now if you have created your own application in your PYBOSSA server or in Crowdcrafting you have to create your own library or script to download the results from the server and process them.
Citizen Science hackfest in Madrid
Adding a load balanced & high-availability cache to PYBOSSA
In the last days I have been working really hard to add a new cache system to PYBOSSA.
Shooting and Editing videos in GNU/Linux
This year, in summer, I decided to apply for the prestigious Shuttleworth Fellowship program.
2nd CERN Summer Webfest
The second CERN Summer Student Webfest has been an amazing event. Physicists, designers, computer scientists and engineers worked together in a 48 hours marathon to create a set of amazing projects involving physics and modern web technologies.
Mapping Antimatter tracks with Crowdcrafting.org
Analyzing Icelandic conviction rates
CERN Summer Webfest
The first weekend of August of 2012, CERN hosted the first Summer Student Webfest where physicists, designers, computer scientists and engineers worked together in a 48 hours marathon to create a set of amazing web applications prototypes involving physics and modern web technologies.
Earthquakes & citizen scientists
The Asia@Home workshop started focused on earthquakes and volunteers to track them. The project The Quake Catcher Network presented their results an approach in different parts of the world (Chile, Christchurch, California, etc.) and a collaboration with Taiwan for monitoring earthquakes.