Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 57 – A Prescription for Your Subscription Addiction
Cyberpunk Librarian
Are you tired of paying for content? Do you have four or five services you subscribe to for music, eBooks, or movies? Maybe even more than five? Feeling a bit burned out pitting one service over another? Well Dan has just the thing for you: Free digital content from your public library! Release yourself from all (or at least some) of those services, and check out what’s on offer from your local library! You’ll be amazed how you can download eBooks, listen to music and audiobooks, watch movies, and more… and all you pay is the price of your library card!
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Links
Audiobooks
- OverDrive – Audiobooks, eBooks, and more
- RBDigital – Audiobooks, eBooks, magazines, comics, and more
- Hoopla – Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
eBooks
Magazines & Comics
- RBDigital – Audiobooks, eBooks, magazines, comics, and more
- Hoopla – Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
- Magazine Rack – The Magazine Rack at the Internet Archive. Tonnes of classic magazines.
Movies, TV, & Video
- Hoopla – Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
- Kanopy – A fantastic collection of indie, arthouse, classic, and documentary film
Music
- Freegal – Download and stream music, free and legally
- Hoopla – Audiobooks, eBooks, music, comics, and more
Music
Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 56 – The FOSSiL Projects
Cyberpunk Librarian
The Cyberpunk Librarian is back and he’s talking about software… His own software! Join Dan for a look at The FOSSiL Projects and discover what he’s been working on for the past couple of months! And hey, maybe there’s something in the Projects that can help make your library life just a little easier!
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Links
- iAWriter – My writing app of choice on the iPad.
- The FOSSiL Projects – Free and Open Source Solutions in Libraries. The primary website for information about the projects.
- FOSSiL Projects on GitLab – The FOSSiL Projects repos on GitLab.
- CargoCult Demo – Try this thing for yourself!
- PHP – Write some code, find some frustrations.
- Python – A better brand of misery.
- MariaDB – It’s MySQL, without Oracle.
- Ubuntu MATE – It’s so… green!
- WordPress – Sure, there are other CMS solutions, but this is the one I like.
- GitLab – Host your code in an versioning system that’s 100% open source.
- Download GitLab – Host your code in your own hosted versioning system.
- GOGS – Simple, easy to use, git style versioning system. Works pretty much everywhere.
- VirtualBox – Run virtual Linux servers using open source virtualization software. It’s VMware, with Oracle.
Music
Sounds
Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 55 – At Odds With Odds and Ends
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Holy crap! Cyberpunk Librarian is back! On this episode, Dan talks about the projects that have been holding up the show and what’s going on in his life. It’s a conversation over coffee with your friendly neighbourhood Cyberpunk Librarian!
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Links
Blogging
Facebook Is a Garbage Fire
RSS Readers
- QuiteRSS — Free, open source RSS reader for Linux, Windows, and macOS
- Reeder and Unread – Inexpensive RSS readers for iOS
- Reeder — Inexpensive RSS reader for macOS
- Flym and Read – RSS readers for Android
- Brief – A free, open source RSS reader for Firefox – WebExtensions and Firefox 56+ compatible
- FeedBin and Feedly – RSS readers on the web – Premium, but inexpensive services that sync across devices
Ambient and Space Music
Organisation
- Kanban – Wikipedia
- Ōno Taiichi – Creator of kanban
- Trello – A freemium kanban system for tracking projects.
- Projects – A public Trello board so you can see what Dan is doing these days
Python Projects
BBS
- BBS – A fantastic documentary from Jason Scott, the archivist behind textfiles.com
- Watch the BBS documentary series on YouTube
- Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It – A fantastic podcast about technology, history, people, and getting out of debt
- Mystic BBS – A pretty sweet BBS package for macOS, Windows, and Linux
- SynchroNet – A pretty sweet BBS package for Windows and Linux
- WWIV – A classic bit of BBS kit that I ran back in my teenage years
- VirtualBox – Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows and runs virtual machines with ease
- SyncTerm – An excellent terminal emulator that invokes the old days of dial up
- Qodem – A clone of the classic Qmodem terminal emulator
Music
Sounds
Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 54 – Nexus and Empathy
Cyberpunk Librarian
Join Dan for a special episode of Cyberpunk Librarian where he looks at what it is to be human in an increasingly technological world, and within the world of one of the greatest novels in the cyberpunk genre!
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