> This project is intended for entertainment purposes only - it is not recommended for use in your production or intended as a replacement to existing UUID generation mechanisms.<p>Ha! You can't tell me what to do!
For something a little more practical, I recently came across this postgres id generator[1], which Ive been playing around with as a solution for ordered, scalable bigint ids (that take up less space than standard uuids).<p>[1] <a href="https://rob.conery.io/2014/05/28/a-better-id-generator-for-postgresql/" rel="nofollow">https://rob.conery.io/2014/05/28/a-better-id-generator-for-p...</a>
I am not sure I understand its use case.<p>> Generate cute UIDs, i.e. unique(ish) identifiers that are similar in appearance to UUIDs.<p>Ok - but what's the difference between them and UUIDs... What makes them "cute"?
Oh, is there a way to test the collisions for this? Like it generates a uuid, prints it to screen, then does a progress bar showing how many tries attempted and a timer for duration.
ENS allows to register names with emoticons, I think that regular URL allows that as well. The problem with those things is not that they're not memorable, but that there's no good UI to type then when you want to write the name.<p>That said, the project is great! I love such things:-)
<a href="https://github.com/alexdredmon/cuteuid/issues/1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alexdredmon/cuteuid/issues/1</a><p>... I appreciate this whole exchange, complete with emoji:)