Stanford Libraries Associate Dir of IT Operations. Virtualization, storage, databases, security, Cloud, DR/BC, digital preservation. CatOps evangelist. "Magical I.T. fairy." Editor of ocfl.io. Rule #1: "Blame the Firewall."https://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3mhrxijxzbs2vIncluding us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2026 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhrxijxzbs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3m5sn52dyok2gWe will be moving off VMWare in the next two years. It’s a shame - I brought VMWare to the libraries over a decade ago because it made a lot of sense at the time, and now the smart move is to go somewhere else for our virtualisation needs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Nov 2025 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5sn52dyok2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lweuineigc2hAs both a Master & Commander fan and a digital preservationist, I love all of this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Aug 2025 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lweuineigc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lqs57shcps24In my opinion the most accurate depiction of late 18th century naval warfare ever filmed. Yes, technically 19thC in the movie but they were using 18thC ships and tactics. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqs57shcps24https://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lnbokrgjps2oAs a person who has digital preservation in their day job: absolutely. Digital objects need constant curation to survive. Tangentially: ocfl.io [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2025 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnbokrgjps2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3ll3olyqu3k2z“Call for pricing”, three words that make any introvert sysadmin recoil in fear. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2025 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll3olyqu3k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lkqq3grszk2nInteresting blog post on the future of AI models - anticipating that the big closed-source providers will stop API access and provide agentic functions directly from their models, as that's the only way they will be able to make money. https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/model-is-the-product19 Mar 2025 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqq3grszk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3ljisutmwks2rFind joy where you can in these trying times. For me today, it was discovering that these SSD caddies are tool-less. No tiny screws needed!03 Mar 2025 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljisutmwks2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lhptaxduys2aIYKYK [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Feb 2025 04:48 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhptaxduys2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lhejshzpxc2aWe are not that big in the great scheme of things, but so much of our disruptive traffic is from non-search (!bing, !google etc) trawling of our content, often where the crawler is disguising their activities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Feb 2025 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhejshzpxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lg6mqgudzs2lThis is an A.I. policy I can get behind. Also bonus @susannahpaletz.bsky.social call out, which is nice. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jan 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6mqgudzs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lehlcdgpe226Well played, historians. Well played. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Dec 2024 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lehlcdgpe226https://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lcnjxparvs2vHistory is delicious. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Dec 2024 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnjxparvs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lcmizrmcak2vA thoughtful piece on how to adjust instruction in a world where we cannot prevent students from using generative A.I. https://www.instruction.uh.edu/2024/12/02/if-youre-avoiding-ai-youre-part-of-the-problem/06 Dec 2024 06:01 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcmizrmcak2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lbv6m5tjjs2tSignal boosting for the EFF. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2024 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbv6m5tjjs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3lbdgluml3k2lCame to work the other day to find out they were doing an exhibit on me19 Nov 2024 21:58 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbdgluml3k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianmorley.bsky.social/post/3k7p2sdvj4226Well, I'm here. And in accordance with prophecy my first two follows must be @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @scalzi.com. Apparently one is a cryptid and the other is failed Milton Bradley game from the 70s. Look I don't make the rules.18 Sep 2023 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:verltiarugxgp3cebeffv2dv/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7p2sdvj4226