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we encoded the id with a base that removes most vowels (to avoid generating words, potentially offensive ones, and added a checksum to prevent copy paste mistakes it worked quite w…

based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889498

"This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind."

We need to separate the storage format (Postgres and MySQL both have a bigint serial for primary key and it should stay that way) for display, you have various ways to encode that …

OP is protesting against Amazon providing infrastructure for selecting targets for the IDF to bomb. I'm not aware of Amazon providing services to Hamas, so that the OP is not prote…

I tried something similar with a fixed alphabet that guarantees no profanity and a checksum (luhn) https://github.com/tttp/dxid

you might want to consider an alternative with a base32 encoding with a luhn checksum https://github.com/tttp/dxid

thanks for the feedback, you're right, the "url safe" isn't the main focus (well, shouldn't, it's just that it's the last issue I had ;) For further context, we are working on onli…

Hi, It's solving a tiny problem that annoyed me for many years: find a way to have unique keys for entities that don't have an obvious one without displaying their primary key as a…

"I have spent my own personal money to pay for the curl server and I've spent my own (spare) time on its maintanence now for over twenty years" So some of the hosting is paid by hi…

If you live in Europe, you might want to sign the European citizen initiative banning biometrics Reclaimyourface.eu

A patent is granted to something new, here the goal was to show that the patent is void, because it was already existing before the patent was (wrongly) granted. It doesn't matter …

You are comparing relatively empty trains with hypothetically 100% full planes It's the same with the wsj, they are comparing a 100% occupancy rate of the plane with a 20% for the …

I'd argue that you have other countries that have a better functioning direct democracy (Switzerland has lots of initiatives each year) Isn't the main problem in ça that there are …

We built our online campaigning tool with a graphql phoenix backend For our use case (burst of visitors staying for a minute) it served us well and we were quickly productive with …

Really nice! "After completing our curriculum, you will gain access to our internal code repository that powers c0d3.com" Out of curiosity, why aren't you opensourcing the code? Th…

Please don't drag the rest of the world in it, this student loan construction is certainly the current state of the USA

We are working on a petition tool (more broadly an online action tool, think emailing or calling your representatives before a vote) Https://proca.foundation It's as well a pretext…

1) No you can't gerneralise. Immigrants from France and Germany in CH are less criminal (well, technically less arrested ;) than swiss citizen. 2) CH immigration has always been se…