[notpushkin]

I’ve made a library for that! https://codeberg.org/prettyid

[dewey]

Why should anyone vendor a dependency in a critical functionality for three lines of code (https://codeberg.org/prettyid/js/src/branch/master/lib/index...)?

[HideousKojima]

That's the JavaScript/Node ecosystem in a nutshell. See the LeftPad fiasco and the mere existence of the IsOdd and IsEven packages for more poor judgement.

[notpushkin]

To be honest that’s because I didn’t flesh out JS counterpart yet. My plan was to have something similar to the Python version: https://codeberg.org/prettyid/python

Of course, if you like the idea but don’t want to add another dependency, you can copy-paste the three-liner as it is! (And I’m sure it’s not even copyrightable right now :-)

[fusspawn]

multiple dependencies,

Also requires two other packages to run its 3 lines of code.

"dependencies": { "@scure/base": "^1.1.7", "uuidv7": "^1.0.1" }

[kqr]

...but you'll have those dependencies anyway!

[verdverm]

only if I can leftpad it first?

[xdennis]

There's a similar proposal called TypeID: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

E.g.: user_2x4y6z8a0b1c2d3e4f5g6h7j8k

[notpushkin]

This is actually pretty good! And it seems to be compatible with my implementation (it’s also UUIDv7 and base32 alphabet is the same, but without mapping from OIL to 01).