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Show HN: Randstr – random strings at the command line with unicode/emoji (go)

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Post by leighmcculloch » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 7:21 AM UTC

Show HN: Randstr – random strings at the command line with unicode/emoji (go)
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Re: Show HN: Randstr – random strings at the command line with unicode/emoji (go)

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Post by leighmcculloch » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 7:22 AM UTC

I've been learning go and this is my first CLI app. There's definitely some YAGNI in this..cough emoji cough..but supporting unicode/emoji led me to expressing the charsets as an interface instead of as a string or array of characters, which are so nice and so lightweight in go.

brew install leighmcculloch/randstr/randstr

or

go install github.com/leighmcculloch/randstr/cmd/randstr

Feedback welcome, especially on project structure and best ways to distribute go CLIs.

Re: Show HN: Randstr – random strings at the command line with unicode/emoji (go)

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Post by brudgers » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 4:47 PM UTC

leighmcculloch wrote: post #2

I've been learning go and this is my first CLI app. There's definitely some YAGNI in this.. cough emoji cough ..but supporting unicode/emoji led me to expressing the charsets as an interface instead of as a string or array of characters, which are so nice and so lightweight in go. brew install leighmcculloch/randstr/randstr or go install github.com/leighmcculloch/randstr/cmd/randstr Feedback welcome, especially on pr…

Curious as to how the use of emoji and other unicode effects your password management.

Re: Show HN: Randstr – random strings at the command line with unicode/emoji (go)

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Post by leighmcculloch » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 10:46 PM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #3

leighmcculloch wrote: post #2

I've been learning go and this is my first CLI app. There's definitely some YAGNI in this.. cough emoji cough ..but supporting unicode/emoji led me to expressing the charsets as an interface instead of as a string or array of characters, which are so nice and so lightweight in go. brew install leighmcculloch/randstr/randstr or go install github.com/leighmcculloch/randstr/cmd/randstr Feedback welcome, especially on pr…

Curious as to how the use of emoji and other unicode effects your password management.

I added unicode and emoji for fun which is where the YAGNI reference came from. I doubt many websites accept them, even Google don't. But you're welcome to give it a go:

randstr -charset ASCII,UnicodePassword