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simon_willison · Jul 4, 2026 · news
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Building a World Map with only 500 bytes
simonwillison.netJul 4, 2026
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Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression, which is then wi...
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