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Google Maps and Label Readability. Obsessively detailed analysis of exactly what makes Google Maps so readable when compared to Yahoo! and Bing.

Posted 3rd December 2010 at 5:08 pm

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My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs - 11th January 2026
Fly's new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time - 9th January 2026
LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends - 8th January 2026

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