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edoceo on Feb 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things you should do now (2011)

ULID. 128bit, human "readable", sorted (like int!), nearly impossible to guess/collide and has timestamp embedded. I love this format.

andrewem on Feb 19, 2021 | [–]

Here’s a link to a description of ULID, for those like me who had never heard of it: https://github.com/ulid/spec

reader_1000 on Feb 19, 2021 | [–]

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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