[eropple]

ULID's presentation format is probably better for humans, though. You can double-click-to-highlight a ULID; the standard UUID representation doesn't like this.

(You can use ULID's presentational tools with UUIDv7, though.)

[beart]

It doesn't help in other tools, but there is a css rule to help with this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select

[notpushkin]

> You can use ULID's presentational tools with UUIDv7, though.

I did that, works pretty good: https://codeberg.org/prettyid/python

Some more context in a sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41355218

[Lammy]

> You can double-click-to-highlight a ULID; the standard UUID representation doesn't like this.

You can control this behavior in CSS with `user-select`. Peep my fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/gLyph5km/

[eropple]

Yup, in a browser you can. In my terminal or my text editor or Slack, I can't.

[Lammy]

You're right that there isn't a good standard way to configure this, but a lot of terminals should be able to do it. The magic phrase is “word characters”. I know Konsole, gnome-terminal, iTerm2, Terminal-dot-app at least have this setting.

[eropple]

Yep, I know about that (and WORDCHARS in zsh, for keyboard navigation). The thing is, though, UUIDs overload the dash character. I don't want dashes to be word characters except for a UUID.

(ULID representations also are shorter because they use a wider character set, which is nice though not critical.)

[wtetzner]

> the standard UUID representation doesn't like this.

Yeah, I've gotten in the habit of stripping hyphens from the string representation of UUIDs in a lot of the code I write for that reason.

[NetOpWibby]

Yeah I’m sticking with ULID and Sqids for my ID/slug purposes.