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Comment by philgyford | Hacker News Reader

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

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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?

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.

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.

Just wanted to say hello, as someone who used to regularly browse haddock.org for interesting links before hackernews existed!

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.

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