The UX of UUIDs

• spec

  62 8,648 0.0

  The canonical spec for ulid

  

Can use ULID to "fix" some issues

https://github.com/ulid/spec

• cybertoken

  1 6 8.3 TypeScript

  A token format for APIs inspired by GitHub's API token format.

I built cybertoken [1] for API keys and passwords, not (only) IDs. It is basically the format that GitHub uses for their api keys. Underscores, a prefix, so we can get a better debugging experience and automated secret scanning.

[1]: https://github.com/nikeee/cybertoken

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• uuid6-ietf-draft

  7 182 5.7 HTML

  Next Generation UUID Formats

  

https://github.com/uuid6/uuid6-ietf-draft/issues/27

• new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-draft

  1 3 - HTML

  New UUID Encoding Techniques

  

https://github.com/uuid6/new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-d...

But there is always TypeID in the meantime which uses UUIDv7 under the hood: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

Either way, I am in favor of prefixing and using alternative encodings, but it will need some time to figure out the best route. In the mean time, there are so many alternatives. TypeID, NanoID, ULID, etc. I even made my own quick one just for giggles: https://github.com/daegalus/snowflakes

• new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-d

  1 - -

https://github.com/uuid6/new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-d...

But there is always TypeID in the meantime which uses UUIDv7 under the hood: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

Either way, I am in favor of prefixing and using alternative encodings, but it will need some time to figure out the best route. In the mean time, there are so many alternatives. TypeID, NanoID, ULID, etc. I even made my own quick one just for giggles: https://github.com/daegalus/snowflakes

• typeid

  15 2,744 8.2 Go

  Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

  

https://github.com/uuid6/new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-d...

But there is always TypeID in the meantime which uses UUIDv7 under the hood: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

Either way, I am in favor of prefixing and using alternative encodings, but it will need some time to figure out the best route. In the mean time, there are so many alternatives. TypeID, NanoID, ULID, etc. I even made my own quick one just for giggles: https://github.com/daegalus/snowflakes

• snowflakes

  1 0 4.3 Go

  Custom unique identifier tokens

https://github.com/uuid6/new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-d...

But there is always TypeID in the meantime which uses UUIDv7 under the hood: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

Either way, I am in favor of prefixing and using alternative encodings, but it will need some time to figure out the best route. In the mean time, there are so many alternatives. TypeID, NanoID, ULID, etc. I even made my own quick one just for giggles: https://github.com/daegalus/snowflakes

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• django-spicy-id

  2 13 6.7 Python

  🌶️ Cool "Stripe-style" self-identifying row IDs for Django. A drop-in replacement AutoField.

Nice list, found a couple projects I hadn't seen before.

My addition for your consideration: https://github.com/mik3y/django-spicy-id

• cuid2

  15 1,821 4.1 JavaScript

  Next generation guids. Secure, collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance.

  

The CUID readme [1] explains that there's no real point to K-sortable on modern hardware:

[1] https://github.com/paralleldrive/cuid2?tab=readme-ov-file#no...

• brain

  9 1,530 7.2 JavaScript

  Swyx's second brain! (by swyxio)

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