davidlms | A personal blog

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No need to calculate it. This is the course in which I’ve answered the most emails. And only one term has passed. One of the side effects of blended learning¹, I suppose. I’ll just say that the number of emails with questions received has been inversely proportional to how often I’ve posted on the blog.

And, as I gave more answers, certain patterns kept repeating. In the end, I was writing practically the same thing several times, which is not desirable at all. Suddenly, I felt like I had turned into a walking FAQ myself. So why not make one? Not just because it would be available for consultation and save some emails (my desire), but to link certain answers and thus avoid writing the same content again.

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Without a doubt, Digital Transformation is one of the concepts that have become most fashionable during this 2020. Perhaps because the pandemic has forced many companies and freelancers to accelerate their conversion to digital. Perhaps because the government has announced that it will invest a significant amount of money¹ in the cause. Perhaps it’s been the sum of a little bit of everything. And it’s about time. Because we’re not just late, but extremely late².

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Since I started the blog, I’ve been transparent about its technical aspects, and in fact, you have the How it’s made¹ section fully updated.

This week I registered the domain with Cloudflare’s² free service to improve the website’s availability. Want to know what it entails, how I did it, and what changes I’ve observed? Keep reading.

Cloudflare is an American company that offers various internet services. Among them, two are free: the CDN³ and DDoS attack prevention⁴. A CDN is a content delivery network. Simply put, it’s several strategically geographically distributed servers that store your website, thus improving speed (when there’s an access, it’s directed to the nearest server) and availability (it’s less likely for the site to go offline if it’s replicated on several servers). A DDoS attack, also simplified, occurs when multiple devices (many) make multiple requests to a specific server or network, aiming to saturate it and make it unavailable.

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We’re all running the same race of life¹. The only difference is that we start from different starting points.

Different starting points? Don’t we all have the same opportunities? If I put in the same effort as someone else, shouldn’t I have the same advantages? Toby Morris explains it perfectly in this story, which you can find translated into Spanish here.

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Last week, I was imagining an ideal application for planning and improving training sessions. As I couldn’t find one, I decided to create a small script¹ that I could use for this purpose.

Although it has many flaws and limitations due to the minimal time I could dedicate to it, for now it decently fulfills most of the things I was looking for to plan the course. It currently has two main functions:

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Imagine an app that lets us plan class sessions for a subject or module¹ throughout an entire school year².

Imagine that this app, simply by entering our weekly schedule and holiday dates, generates all the sessions we need to plan.

Imagine that it allows us to write a description for each session, as well as comments or ideas for future improvements to consider in upcoming courses.