Cyberpunk Librarian

Turn on, tune in, and chill out as Dan takes you on a trip through the sounds of ambient and space music! Put your mind at rest, lay back, and let the sound flow over and around you. Relax and get more done thanks to the soundscapes and cosmic wonder of ambient music. Dan delivers the info on where to find the best ambient tunes and offers a sampler of some of the best in the genre. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube. Links Ambient Internet Radio Stations Drone Zone Space Station Soma Deep Space One Mission Control Doomed SF 10-33 The Silent Channel StillStream Radio Mystic The Ambient Music Subreddit The Space Music Subreddit The Dark Ambient Subreddit Podcasts The Hypnagogue Podcast Ambient Soundbath Playlists My Ambient Appetizer playlist – On Spotify 24 hours of beautiful ambient and space music – On Spotify 192 hours of beautiful ambient and space music – On Spotify Musicians Steve Roach – Music from The Magnificent Void – Spotify | YouTube Lucette Bourdin – Music from Radiant Stars – More on Archive.org | Spotify | YouTube Stars of the Lid – Music from And Their Refinement of the Decline – Spotify | YouTube Stargarden – Music from Ambient Excursions – Spotify | YouTube Clips Brian Eno – Music for Airports Interview Apollo 11 Audio courtesy of NASA Music The Last Question by Lee Rosevere The City Without Sun by Massimo Ruberti

Almost everybody who uses a computer winds up typing something sooner or later. Heck, Dan is typing this… right now… on a computer! So join him...

Almost everybody who uses a computer winds up typing something sooner or later. Heck, Dan is typing this… right now… on a computer! So join him for a show about getting more out of typing with text expansion! YouTube Listen on YouTube Links Text Expander from Smile Software for macOS aText for macOS PhraseExpress – for Windows Breevy – for Windows AutoKey – for Linux TextSuggest – For Linux Music Dodo by beat.dowsing Albatross by beat.dowsing Tropics by beat.dowsing Knowns by beat.dowsing

Cyberpunk Librarian is back! Do you have to do repetitive tasks on your computer? Gotta do the same thing over and over again, week in and...

Cyberpunk Librarian is back! Do you have to do repetitive tasks on your computer? Gotta do the same thing over and over again, week in and week out? Weren’t computers supposed to make this job easier? Join Dan as he dives into the problems he’s faced with repetitive jobs and how he automated his way out of them. Then, try it yourself! A couple hours of coding can save you days of work later on! YouTube Listen on YouTube Links MCLD SlideGen – Easily make web slides for Polaris PowerPAC. PUMMEL 2.0 – Handles unclaimed holds fees and processing in Polaris ILS. AutoHotkey – The duct tape programming language that just freakin’ works. Visual Studio – It’s free now. You should try it. ImageMagick – Arcane, strange, eldritch, but incredibly useful. PHP – Because sometimes, ya gotta. Slide Examples A generic slide with generic fonts and colours. Fonts and colours can be changed to suit your designs and desires! This is a slide as it actually appears on the library website! As you can see, it looks a bit better when you tweak it to your needs.

Join the Cyberpunk Librarian as he digs deeper into the topic of Minecraft and helps the uninitiated get themselves up to speed! After all, you might...

Join the Cyberpunk Librarian as he digs deeper into the topic of Minecraft and helps the uninitiated get themselves up to speed! After all, you might want to do some Minecraft things at your library, but what do you do when your co-workers don’t know a diamond pick from a Creeper’s behind? You can start by sharing this show with them! YouTube Catch the show on YouTube Music Fascinating Earthbound Objects at the Free Music Archive Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Digging Into Dirt from Freesound

When things stop working and computers break, you need a trouble ticketing system to get the problems in the hands of the professionals! Join Dan for...

When things stop working and computers break, you need a trouble ticketing system to get the problems in the hands of the professionals! Join Dan for a ride with eTicket, a FOSS help desk system for everyone! YouTube Listen on YouTube Links eTicket Help Desk Software – A FOSS trouble ticket system running on LAMP. Music Hedonic State by Mike B. Fort Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz OST 11 Where Am I? by sawsquarenoise Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Bristol Riots Shouting and Swearing from FreeSound

Dive into the awesome, portable Raspberry PirateBox, a version of the classic PirateBox running on a Raspberry Pi! Dan’s got the information and the ideas to...

Dive into the awesome, portable Raspberry PirateBox, a version of the classic PirateBox running on a Raspberry Pi! Dan’s got the information and the ideas to get you started on your own PirateBox project! YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links PirateBox – Begin at the beginning. Raspberry PirateBox – Build a PirateBox from a Pi! Raspberry PirateBox modification ideas – Take it to another level. LibraryBox – The LibraryBox, an offshoot of the PirateBox. Recommended battery packs – Go mobile. Merkury Innovations Battery Pack – The model I use seems to be discontinued, but this is pretty close. PuTTY – Because Windows only recently acquired ssh capabilities. Episode 39 – About Raspberry Pis and digital signage. How to Flash an SD Card for Raspberry Pi – A great guide for all operating systems. How not to disguse your PirateBox Kareha – Like 4chan, but with Perl. PirateBox radio – IceCast FTW! r/piratebox – The PirateBox subreddit. Music Runtime Error by Peter Sharp Cylinder Three by Chris Zabriskie Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Data Stream from FreeSound

It’s laid back, it’s musical, it’s story time! Dan takes a break and reads a couple of chapters from his new book, Digital Outback: Cyberpunk and...

It’s laid back, it’s musical, it’s story time! Dan takes a break and reads a couple of chapters from his new book, Digital Outback: Cyberpunk and Culture on the Edge of the Net. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links Digital Outback – Available on Amazon and DRM free. Feel free to convert as needed. The Pulp Magazine Archive at the Internet Archive Music Astro (Give You All I Can) by Giyo Parisian Girl by Giyo World Order – Machine Civilization from the album 2012 Spotify | YouTube Homer & Jethro – Jam-bow-liar from America’s Song Butchers: The Weird World of Homer & Jethro Spotify | YouTube Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Printer from FreeSound Jet Engines from FreeSound

Scientists recently discovered gravitational waves and Dan gets atomic with the Atom text editor from GitHub! Let’s talk about writing simply, so you can simply write...

Scientists recently discovered gravitational waves and Dan gets atomic with the Atom text editor from GitHub! Let’s talk about writing simply, so you can simply write what you need to write. It’s simple, and with Atom, it’s beautiful. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links ImageMagick – Go hardcore and make images from the command line! Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 41 – So Be It Resolved Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 35 – Marky Markdown and the Funky Bunch Cory Doctorow and Flashbake – Plain text novelist with version control by Git In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson Simple Text Editor for Firefox Writer for Chrome MacDown – MarkDown for Mac ByWord – MarkDown for Mac and iOS Atom – A hackable text editor from GitHub Music Analgesia by Vir Nocturna Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men The Dead of Night by Psychadelik Pedestrian Universal Warrior (Special Edition) by Gorowski Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Manual Typewriter from FreeSound