5 comments

  • creakingstairs 1 hour ago
    This is the definition of a nerd snipe for me.

    I’ve been binging a Korean YouTuber called Hyangachi(향아치)who goes into Joseon dynasty history in a very approachable way for younger generation and I’ve been researching observability dashboard for my side projects. I didn’t even think about combining the two.

    Joseon dynasty was obsessed with preserving history. Not even the king could interfere with it. In fact, a king fell from his horse during a hunt, then told them to not write it down. But we know this happened because they wrote down the order :D

    The historians also have known about the importance of resiliency and made back up copies too!

    • WastedCucumber 1 hour ago
      Thanks for that hilarious history tidbit. The actual record makes it even better. From the wiki page for Taejong of Joseon:

      The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer. However, the horse stumbled, causing him to fall off, but he was not injured. Looking around, he said, "Do not let the historians know about this."

      • nico 41 minutes ago
        I just made the connection to why they had a scene like that in a Korean show on Netflix, cool
  • zuzululu 35 minutes ago
    This is fascinating. Perhaps what trips me up is the mention of UFOs in the Joseon Archives.

    https://youngit.blogspot.com/2012/08/ufo-recorded-in-annals-...

  • joonehur 42 minutes ago
    The data comes from the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty. https://sillok.history.go.kr/intro/english.do I'm browsing it. Wow, there's so much detail, like:

    己酉二月, 世宗講武于平康, 世祖射鹿, 七發皆貫其項。

    기유년 2월에 세종이 평강(平康)에서 강무(講武)를 하였는데, 세조가 사슴을 쏜 7발(發)이 모두 그 목을 관통하였다.

    "In the second lunar month of the giyu year, King Sejong held a military drill (gangmu) at Pyeonggang. Sejo shot seven arrows at a deer, and all of them pierced its neck." https://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kga_000002

    Many K-drama and movies are inspired by these records.

  • sperandeo 1 hour ago
    Treating historical records like system logs is a framing I hadn't considered. interesting
  • roetlich 2 hours ago
    Great, now we need this with current data for modern governments