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Julian M. Morley

@julianmorley.bsky.social
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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."

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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We’re hiring. Open to remote or local candidates, looking for folks who know their virtualisation and composable infrastructure. careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...
careersearch.stanford.edu
Senior Operations Engineer
Responsible for the installation, maintenance, configuration and integrity of the operating system environment.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“the database reads from that spreadsheet”
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Including us.
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info. Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries. Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized. Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We 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.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
As both a Master & Commander fan and a digital preservationist, I love all of this.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/08/2025
As someone who has done hiring in tech, the person with a liberal arts degree who has taught themself the tech skills is a good hire because they’ve proven they’re willing to learn, and the secretly very important part of working in tech is having to learn all the time, forever.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
In 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.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
As a person who has digital preservation in their day job: absolutely. Digital objects need constant curation to survive. Tangentially: ocfl.io
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OCFL Specifications
This Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) specification describes an application-independent approach to the storage of digital information in a structured, transparent, and predictable manner.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Call for pricing”, three words that make any introvert sysadmin recoil in fear.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Interesting 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.
vintagedata.org
The Model is the Product | Vintage Data
Old data, new models
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Find 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!
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
IYKYK
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We 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.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is an A.I. policy I can get behind. Also bonus @susannahpaletz.bsky.social call out, which is nice.
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting - mitchellh.com/writing/prom... - I read this before but worth sharing. The main difference between the two? Actual testing against a specific task. Not copying tricks that some preprint on arxiv said did well under some unknown criteria.
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Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Well played, historians. Well played.
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The Register @theregister.com · 18/12/2024
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate
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Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate
If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix…
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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you know someone who is passionate about critical AI, data, or media & disinformation literacy, please share this call for (stipended) topic curators. We're especially keen to have high school teachers and librarians involved in the creation of this open educational resource! #oer #libraries
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 10/12/2024
Some of the notable films, books, and other artworks entering the public domain in 2025 copyrightlately.com/public-domai...
copyrightlately.com
Public Domain Day 2025 is Coming: Here's What to Know
A new crop of copyrighted works enters the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2025. Here's what it all means.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
History is delicious.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A thoughtful piece on how to adjust instruction in a world where we cannot prevent students from using generative A.I.
instruction.uh.edu
If You’re Avoiding Artificial Intelligence, You’re Part of the Problem – Instruction @ UH
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Signal boosting for the EFF.
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Mary Grace Scary Face @emgeekay.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sharing this starter pack of people engaged in the field of digital preservation. Just let me know if you are working in digital preservation and would like to be added. go.bsky.app/3SpFvF1
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Came to work the other day to find out they were doing an exhibit on me
A billboard advertising an exhibit on special, unique and rare disasters.
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Julian M. Morley @julianmorley.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Well, 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.
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