UUIDs are a wonderful invention

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  • UUID

    :snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). (by ramsey)

    I'll leave this here https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80

  • InfluxDB

    Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

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  • nanoid

    A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript

    This is brilliant. But I like this: https://github.com/ai/nanoid

  • nft_ptr

    C++ `std::unique_ptr` that represents each object as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain

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