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by edoceo 2401 days ago
ULID - https://github.com/ulid/spec it's like 48bits of control and 80 bits of power packed into 128bits of fun!!
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Why store it as text rather than raw bytes?
I wanted to ship in a few hours and didn't want to get into custom data-type. Maybe v2 ;)