Blog – Lukas W. Mayer

A dedicated space for me to rant!

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Is it even possible to avoid big-tech?

A status update on my self-experiment

How I find interesting blogs to follow

My super secret curated lists

Have we reached maximum click-bait yet?

My struggle with social media

Why is nature so disturbing?

On overthinking animal documentaries and human exceptionalism

More awesome browser extensions

Better PDFs, website navigation via keyboard, website code injection

Whether we have free will or not should be inconsequential

Scientific findings should not always influence institutional practice

Bread in the USA

Andere Länder, andere Sitten

Simplifying my site

How to remote control a Quarto presentation

An intro to RevealJS with Multiplex

My new favorite search engine

Kagi has a lot to offer for power-users.

Linux changed me

I’m more annoying now.

Why Mastodon is the only social network I use

The Fediverse is the true digital town square

How to render Quarto websites faster

Git + Bash to speed up website updates

How to make VS Code look like Rstudio/Spyder

Optimizing VS Code for Data Science

How to survive Free-tier Duolingo

A guide for overcoming freemium limitations

Vivaldi features: Personal Best-of

My favorite features in the Vivaldi browser

A day trip to Freiburg

My first shot at a travel blog post

Essential tools to make the modern web more bearable

Some free tools I enjoy that you might too

Statistical Bouquets: My first venture into creative coding

Random.jl + Distributions.jl + CairoMakie.jl = Flowers?

Quick Fix for Public WiFi on Linux

Trouble connecting? Here are some terminal commands to help you get online.

My website template for you!

A simple template for getting started with Quarto websites

Math-Stats: Multiple Linear Regression

Some notes on Multiple Linear Regression

Math-Stats: Simple Linear Regression

Linear regression notes in RevealJS

Math-Stats: Properties of Expectation, Variance, and Covariance

Some reflections and lecture notes

Making Vivaldi even better

Fixing small annoyances with mods

How to use R in Visual Studio Code - The Essentials

A guide to setting up R for Visual Studio Code

Vivaldi is a strange browser

A discussion of odd design choices and my feature wishlist

2000+ days of Duolingo - Worth it?

My review after 5+ years of daily use

Phone less, without being phoneless

Some simple tricks for cutting down

How to make a login portal for Quarto sites

Personalized/Gated content on static websites

Habit tracking with Habitica - a quick tour

Turn your life into a video-game? It’s less questionable than you think

A review of search engines

To google or not to google, that is the question.

Why ‘Doom-scroll’, when there is RSS?

A post about old technology that was ahead of its time

Why Vivaldi is the least and most minimal browser at the same time

My take on how to make a piece of maximalist software easy on the eyes

Why Vivaldi is the least and most minimal browser at the same time

My take on how to make a piece of maximalist software easy on the eyes

How to easily make a website for free

A jumpstart guide to creating websites with Quarto

My first DIY web-app

Just a quick post to test the blog and briefly talk about my first ventures into JavaScript