Linus Dietz

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science Education

Hello world, reloaded!

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After a technical downtime of shutting down my old server last December, I have finally set up a new homepage again. This time it’s combined with my blog that has been mostly sleeping for the last years.

In the old blog that ran from November 2010 until December 2017, I wrote about stuff I found on the Internet and my traveling activities, mostly during my time as an ERASMUS student in Vilnius, Lithuania.

This time, I want to focus writing about my research-related activities and open-source software.

Cheers,
Linus

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