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The Worst Game Ever – Stuart Ashens on ‘Hareraiser’

From my YouTube recommendations.

Hareraiser really does sound terrible!

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)

Bulimic Beats / Catatonia

Bulimic Beats by Catatonia. From 1999’s Equally Cursed and Blessed.

Rickmurai Jack Flashback Music

From around 14 minutes into season 5, episode 10 of Rick and Morty.

And, apparently, the now obligatory hour long edit.

All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre / ALISON COTTON

(Via Warren Ellis)

MacOS Updates Are Getting Slower

With 30 minutes to prepare and another 25 minutes to actually perform this mere point update (12.3 > 12.4), what – exactly – is a relatively modern Macbook Pro that’s capable of of writing to it’s boot disk at 2.2GB/s+ doing when it upgrades?

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.

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.

More Maps.

I’ve adde a little more to the maps thing.

First, I’ve added 300 additional maps from the mid 1850s – including York, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull.

And second, I’ve added a local Google Search box which should make it easier to find various maps and locations. This can be found here.

New Toy – Old UK Maps.

The National Library of Scotland has placed parts of it’s rather a nice collection of old maps online. It’s all very modern – slippy, google maps style pages abound – and predominantly released under permissive licences. It is not, however, easy to get a full map for reuse in a school report or similar.

So I’ve run up a little code, grabbed some of the maps and put them on a new sub-site here. These maps are licensed by the NLS (as opposed to being in the public domain) and this license has carried down to my derivative work. As of writing, there are only seven of them, but I have several hundred more ready to go up shortly and a block of several thousand more to go up at some point after that.

Author: ChrisC