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GeorgeHoneywood

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    Comment #39458826

    Somewhat bizarrely I ended up doing exactly that as a uni project. Writing a parser for the Mapsforge format in TypeScript was a bit of a weird experience. The funkiest bit was try…

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    Comment #35092605

    PMTiles looks excellent, I think the range request idea will go far. Just wanted to let you know that the "Live Example Page" link on the page seems to 404.

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    Comment #34521437

    This is pretty much the idea behind sqlc, with some extra steps of course. You write your SQL queries in file, and it generates type safe bolierplate for you. https://github.com/ky…

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    Comment #34087484

    Presumably they are using some KDF (Key derivation function) that is designed to be algorithmically slow in some way that you can't trivially sidestep.

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    Comment #33038292

    A while ago I made something a bit like this, but it is an animation of all the years between 2007 and now. https://maps.honeyfox.uk/ It only works in my town in the UK, so don't t…