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1. Philip Tellis 2 min later

   Been recommending v6 for the same reason - it's also time ordered but designed to be backwards compatible with v1. v7 is better though.

   1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

      oh, nice!

2. Stuart Langridge 10 min later

   V… 7?

   This is going to be like when I learned that there are cat-6 cables, isn’t it?

   1. Zach Leatherman 15 min later

      look I dunno I always thought cats had 9 twitch live streams

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   1. Zach Leatherman 25 min later

      I also appreciate the neatness of this

4. cbro 3 hr later

   yep, this is needed for rdbms for efficient insertions!

5. Peter Bhat Harkins ✔️ 4 hr later

   TypeID is a nice spin on them: github.com/jetify-com/t...

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 hr later

      nice, thanks!

6. Lukas 9 hr later

   Morning coffee nerd-out. Thanks!

   I naively though “universally unique” would be done on the first try. Was v1 only locally unique?

   createuuid.com/articles/uui...

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 hr later

      I would be surprised by that, the first U stands for universal 😅