Author: ChrisC

Maps – Early July 2022 Update

I’ve added another 1108 map images:

422 maps from Cardiganshire.
686 maps from Cornwall.

Cardiganshire

A rather colourful image of Aberystwyth circa 1887

Interesting places covered in Cardiganshire include: Aberystwyth, Lampeter, and Aberaeron.

Cornwall

…And St Michael’s Mount. Again circa 1887.

Interesting places covered in Cornwall include: St Ives, Lands End, and St. Michael’s Mount

Leaking Pipes with Swift and External Executables

Observed with MacOS 12.4/Xcode 13.4.1/Swift 5

There are quite a lot of tutorials out there covering the basics of running external executables from within Swift and, with very little effort, it’s quite easy to throw together something like this…

import Foundation

let wrappedUname = Process()
wrappedUname.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/usr/bin/uname")
wrappedUname.arguments = ["-v"]
let unameOutputPipe = Pipe()
let unameErrorPipe = Pipe()
wrappedUname.standardOutput = unameOutputPipe
wrappedUname.standardError = unameErrorPipe
do{
    try wrappedUname.run()
} catch {
    print("Unexpected error: \(error).")
}
wrappedUname.waitUntilExit()
let unameOutput = String(decoding: unameOutputPipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile(), as: UTF8.self)
let unameError = String(decoding: unameOutputPipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile(), as: UTF8.self)
print("Output: " + unameOutput)
print("Error: " + unameError)
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Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – Spring 2022

See Early 2024’s Update Here!

Introduction

And another year has quietly sidled out of sight since my last update on the Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s ongoing extension.

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The June 2018 masterplan for the park extension. The park expansion can be found in the lower right, the older original part of the park can be found in the upper left.

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