Short, friendly base32 slugs from timestamps

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  • rfc4122bis

    revision to RFC4122

    One simple workaround could be to use something like UUID version 7[0], using just the first part that encodes the time, and dropping the rest.

    [0]: https://github.com/ietf-wg-uuidrev/rfc4122bis

  • Hashids.java

    Hashids algorithm v1.0.0 implementation in Java

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  • shortuuid

    A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.

    I use shortuuid[0] for that stuff, which also omits the capital letter I, and has some other niceties (I wrote the library). It works really well, and I like how small the IDs are.

    [0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/shortuuid

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