Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

• gubbins

  1 0 - Python

  Gubbins serial number generator & validator

A few years ago, I created a system that generates a serial number from a prefix and a 32-bit unsigned integer and fixes up this kind of input error when passing the serial.

https://github.com/pallas/gubbins

• bips

  1,282 8,961 6.8 Wikitext

  Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

  

Modern bitcoin addresses use a base-32 character set that leaves out some of the most ambiguous pairs and also permutes the address ordering so that the most visually similar remaining characters produce single bit errors which are better handled by the addresses error detecting (and potentially correcting) code.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• gajus-com

  1 0 9.0 MDX

Heads up that the article is open source in case you wanted to contribute an edit.

https://github.com/gajus/gajus-com/blob/main/src/blogPosts/2...

I fixed the typo though. Thanks!

• uuid7-csharp

  2 35 0.0 C#

  UUIDv7 for C#. Time-ordered UUIDs with up to 50ns resolution and 48 bits of randomness.

3. IDs don't use L and O because those can be confused for other characters

I've found it very handy in my travels.

[1] https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7-csharp?tab=readme-ov-f...

• bip39

  769 3,325 2.7 JavaScript

  A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes

• python-mnemonic

  71 804 6.8 Python

  :snake: Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys, BIP39

  

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