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  1. 2 min read

    The tile bug that only browsers could see

    Our tile proxy served perfect tiles to curl and broken ones to MapLibre. The cause was a gzip header that outlived its body.

  2. 2 min read

    Country lookups in under a millisecond

    Every location update needs a country and state. A plain point-in-polygon query took 450 ms. Subdividing the boundaries brought it to about one.