Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
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#2UUIDv7 has been taking HN by storm for years now! When is it going to become a proper standard, and when are libraries and databases and all the rest going to natively support it?
Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#3UUIDv7 has been taking HN by storm for years now! When is it going to become a proper standard, and when are libraries and databases and all the rest going to natively support it?
It would appear to be in the final stages of standardization in the IETF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122b...
Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#4Unrelated, but this links to "Crockford's alphabet", https://www.crockford.com/base32.html , which is a base-32 system that includes all alphanumeric characters except I and L (which are confusable with 1), O (which is confusable with 0), and U (????). The page says the reason for excluding U is "accidental obscenity'. What the heck is it talking about?
Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#5Unrelated, but this links to "Crockford's alphabet", https://www.crockford.com/base32.html , which is a base-32 system that includes all alphanumeric characters except I and L (which are confusable with 1), O (which is confusable with 0), and U (????). The page says the reason for excluding U is "accidental obscenity'. What the heck is it talking about?
FUCK
Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#6Unrelated, but this links to "Crockford's alphabet", https://www.crockford.com/base32.html , which is a base-32 system that includes all alphanumeric characters except I and L (which are confusable with 1), O (which is confusable with 0), and U (????). The page says the reason for excluding U is "accidental obscenity'. What the heck is it talking about?
Yeah, wtf?
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Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#8Unrelated, but this links to "Crockford's alphabet", https://www.crockford.com/base32.html , which is a base-32 system that includes all alphanumeric characters except I and L (which are confusable with 1), O (which is confusable with 0), and U (????). The page says the reason for excluding U is "accidental obscenity'. What the heck is it talking about?
FUCK
yep, youtube video ids has/had? same issue where it would have things like fag/f4g etc in it.
eg: google "allinurl:fag site:youtube.com"
Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#9Assuming you don't need to use UUIDv7 (or any UUID's) then https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid provides a much bigger keyspace. You could just append a string prefix if you wanted to namespace, but the chance of collisions of a ksuid is many times smaller than a UUID of any version.
ksuid is the best general purpose id generator with sort-able timestamps I've found and has libraries in most languages. UUID v1-7 are wasteful.
Re: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
#10Naive Question: The type safe part is just appending a string at the beginning? What if I do that with UUIDv4? is user_49b9cd12-9964-4b9c-8512-742f0a2c9be4 type safe now?