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Re:Things you should do now (2011) by edoceo on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:56AM (#26194429)
ULID. 128bit, human "readable", sorted (like int!), nearly impossible to guess/collide and has timestamp embedded. I love this format.
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Re:Things you should do now (2011) by andrewem on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:19PM (#26196109)
Here’s a link to a description of ULID, for those like me who had never heard of it: https://github.com/ulid/spec
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Re:Things you should do now (2011) by reader_1000 on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:45PM (#26197191)
How does it compare to cuid [1]? If you know the differences, can you please explain them for those like me who do not know both?

[1] https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid

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