[HN Gopher] The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author : dang
Score : 57 points
Date : 2023-01-03 03:50 UTC (19 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.pepysdiary.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.pepysdiary.com)
| pseudolus wrote:
| For those seeking more background about Samuel Pepys, Claire
| Tomalin wrote a biography "Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self"
| that more fully provides a context for his diary entries. [0]
|
| On a tangent I was surprised to learn that I'd been
| mispronouncing his last name for years. Phonetically it's "peeps"
| and not "pep is" as I'd believed.
|
| [0] https://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Pepys-Unequalled-Claire-
| Tomali...
| yamtaddle wrote:
| > On a tangent I was surprised to learn that I'd been
| mispronouncing his last name for years. Phonetically it's
| "peeps" and not "pep is" as I'd believed.
|
| It's a shibboleth for English lit majors, like knowing Euler is
| "oiler" for math folks.
| simplicio wrote:
| I've been slowly reading my way through the Diary on the linked
| website, a few entries at a time, since last year. I haven't
| tried to "sync" my read through with the other people reading
| through the diary in "real-time", one entry a day, but the fact
| that a bunch of the commentators on the website do, and have done
| so through multiple cycles starting in 2002, make the comments of
| the diary sort of a weird historical record in and of themselves.
|
| So you have one set of comments of people referencing the
| invasion of Iraq, the Indian Ocean tsunami, etc. as they were
| happening. Then another set 10 years later bemoaning the Great
| Recession, etc. Then a final set comparing events in the Diary to
| the COVID pandemic. And on top of all that, the actual diary
| entry discussing what were currently developing events 400 years
| ago.
|
| Reading through an entire page at once gives a kind of weird,
| poignant, feeling of the passage of time.
| philgyford wrote:
| Hi, that's my site. It's been running for twenty years, through
| two complete cycles of the diary, and we've just started the
| third.
|
| You can read it on the site (or via its RSS), or get each diary
| entry via email https://buttondown.email/pepysdiary , or get
| excerpts throughout the day in "real time" on Twitter
| https://twitter.com/samuelpepys , or the same on Mastodon
| https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys
|
| Feel free to AMA
| StringyBob wrote:
| Just wanted to say hello, as someone who used to regularly
| browse haddock.org for interesting links before hackernews
| existed!
| dang wrote:
| Wow, I never saw that site. I thought of mining
| https://www.haddock.org/directory/ for obscure links for HN,
| but
| https://www.haddock.org/directory/previouslinks/index.html
| doesn't work.
| saberdancer wrote:
| Thank you for your service. I follow the Twitter account and I
| am always amused when I see what a naughty boy Samuel was.
| Seeing various people join in and comment, with a weird sort of
| "meta" that was created around it is always a pleasure.
|
| Seeing these longer diary entries I wonder does the Twitter
| account publish full content of the diary entries or just
| selected parts?
| philgyford wrote:
| Only selected parts. There's a lot of stuff that isn't super
| interesting, or isn't super interesting in fragments, or just
| doesn't work as short fragments. So there's a lot of
| editorial decisions about what would make good tweets - often
| "boring" bits make for good, relatable tweets though.
|
| I often edit the tweets by omitting a few words if it's
| required to make them fit into 280 characters. Which is
| easier than the first few years when I had to fit them into
| 140 characters.
| niccolop wrote:
| There was a good exhibition a few years ago at the naval
| museum in Greenwich. They also made use of the diaries.
| Your website has proven a great follow up, thank you.
| kerrsclyde wrote:
| I love this site. Tech-wise it's been put together which such
| attention to detail.
|
| There was a really interesting podcast with it's owner broadcast
| some time ago:
| https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/32-building-a-site-a...
| daverol wrote:
| If you are in Cambridge,UK you can visit the library which holds
| the books he collected (including his diaries):
| https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys He designed the bookcases which
| hold the circa 3000 volumes shelved according to height. His will
| stipulated that the books are to be held in the library 'without
| addition or subtraction'
| dang wrote:
| They* started a new cycle of this. Yesterday was the opening:
| https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/01/01/.
|
| One colourful Pepys quote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20579630.
|
| * where by "they" I mean philgyford -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34230074. Bravo!
| robin_reala wrote:
| I did a production of the _Diary_ for Standard Ebooks[1], it's
| still the longest thing on there (amazingly enough given that we
| also have _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ ). Phil from
| pepysdiary.com was a big help and pointed out a bunch of OCR
| errors that he'd previously fixed for the site, which I flowed
| straight back into the SE production.
|
| [1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-pepys/the-diary
| philgyford wrote:
| Ooh, I've probably got some more since then, because I hadn't
| finished working my way through the diary (for the second time)
| when I sent you that lot.
| robin_reala wrote:
| If you've got them lying around and want to email them over
| (same address as last time) then I'll get them in. Thanks!
| Maultasche wrote:
| I read through the entire thing over many years when the site
| first began and a new entry was being posted every day. I found
| it to be surprisingly interesting and I enjoyed reading about
| daily life in the 17th century. The comments could also be quite
| informative. I recommend it to anyone who think they might be
| interested.
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